aid: epidemic-sound name: Epidemic Sound description: >- Epidemic Sound is a Stockholm-based royalty-free music and sound effects licensing platform for video creators, businesses, and platforms. The catalog includes 55,000+ tracks across 390 genres, 250,000+ sound effects, stems and instrumental versions, all under an all-inclusive license that covers mechanical, sync, and public performance rights globally. The Partner Content API ("Epidemic Sound Connect") exposes the full catalog and Epidemic Sound's AI-powered soundtracking tools — Soundmatch (video-to-music recommendation), semantic search, similar-track and similar-section lookup, image-based matching, beat detection, HLS streaming previews, AI voiceover generation, and the new track-versions endpoint that adapts a recording to a target duration while preserving musical structure. An official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (beta) makes the same catalog and tools available to AI agents at https://www.epidemicsound.com/a/mcp-service/mcp. Access to the Partner API is gated behind a partnership agreement; once signed, partner engineers receive credentials via the Developer Portal and authenticate using API Key, Partner Token, or Epidemic Sound Connect (OAuth 2.0). type: Index position: Provider access: 3rd-Party image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg tags: - Music - Sound Effects - Royalty-Free Music - Audio - Audio Licensing - Soundtracking - Sync Licensing - Creators - Video - AI Voiceover - Semantic Search - MCP url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epidemic-sound/refs/heads/main/apis.yml created: '2026-05-25' modified: '2026-05-25' specificationVersion: '0.20' apis: - aid: epidemic-sound:epidemic-sound-partner-content-api name: Epidemic Sound Partner Content API description: >- Single REST API exposing the entire Epidemic Sound catalog — tracks, collections, moods, genres, sound effects, stems, beats, HLS previews, similar-track/section search, image-based and video-based matching, track-versions generation (beta), AI voiceovers (via the MCP tools), partner audio/image uploads, usage reporting, and safelisting licenses for end-user channels. Authenticates with ApiKey (`x-api-key`), Partner Token (bearer), or Epidemic Sound Connect OAuth (user-scoped). Versioned with `/v0/` path prefix. Hosted in Europe; audio delivered via Fastly's global CDN. No local caching of metadata or collections is permitted by the partner terms. humanURL: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/ baseURL: https://partner-content-api.epidemicsound.com tags: - Music - Sound Effects - Tracks - Search - Soundtracking - Voiceover - Licensing properties: - type: Documentation url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/ - type: Documentation url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/api-reference/ - type: Documentation url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/guides - type: SwaggerUI url: https://partner-content-api.epidemicsound.com/swagger - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/epidemic-sound-partner-content-api-openapi.yml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/browse-and-search.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/tracks.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/sound-effects.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/assets.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/safelisting.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/reporting.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/authentication.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/users.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/beta.yaml common: - type: Website url: https://www.epidemicsound.com - type: Portal url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/business/developers/ name: Music API for Developers & Platforms - type: Portal url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/ name: Epidemic Sound Connect Developer Portal - type: Documentation url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/ - type: Documentation url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/api-reference/ name: Partner Content API Reference - type: Documentation url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/guides name: Guides - type: GettingStarted url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/get-started - type: Authentication url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/authentication - type: SwaggerUI url: https://partner-content-api.epidemicsound.com/swagger - type: OpenAPI url: https://partner-content-api.epidemicsound.com/docs/spec.json - type: MCP url: https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/mcp/ name: Epidemic Sound MCP Server (Beta) - type: Pricing url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/pricing/ - type: Plans url: plans/epidemic-sound-plans-pricing.yml - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/epidemic-sound-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/epidemic-sound-finops.yml - type: Blog url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/blog/ - type: Blog url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/blog/epidemic-sound-api/ name: Learn how the Epidemic Sound API works - type: Careers url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/careers/ - type: About url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/about/ - type: Contact url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/contact/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/terms/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/privacy-notice/ - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/epidemicsound - type: SDK url: https://github.com/epidemicsound/partner-content-api-demo-ios name: Partner Content API Demo (iOS, Swift) - type: SDK url: https://github.com/epidemicsound/homebrew-epidemicsound name: Homebrew tap (internal tooling) - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/epidemic-sound - type: Twitter url: https://twitter.com/epidemicsound - type: YouTube url: https://www.youtube.com/@EpidemicSound - type: Instagram url: https://www.instagram.com/epidemicsound/ - type: Facebook url: https://www.facebook.com/epidemicsound - type: TikTok url: https://www.tiktok.com/@epidemicsound - type: Apps url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/apps/ name: Desktop and mobile apps - type: Integrations url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/integrations/ - type: Partners url: https://www.epidemicsound.com/business/partners/ - type: Features data: - 55,000+ royalty-free music tracks across 390 genres - 250,000+ sound effects across categorized collections - Stems and instrumental versions included with every track - All-inclusive licensing covering mechanical, sync, and public performance rights worldwide - Semantic search by natural-language description - Soundmatch — video-frame analysis returning mood-matched track recommendations - Similar-track and similar-section discovery for seamless audio replacement - Image-based track matching (`/v0/tracks/matching-image/{imageId}`) - Beat detection for video-sync workflows (`/v0/tracks/{trackId}/beats`) - HLS streaming previews with cookie-authenticated playback - Track-versions generation (beta) — adapt a track to a target duration while preserving structure - AI voiceover generation via the MCP server (browse artists, generate, status, download) - Partner audio and image uploads for similarity / matching workflows - Safelisting licenses for end-user YouTube/social channels - Usage and analytics reporting endpoints for partner billing reconciliation - Three authentication modes — ApiKey, Partner Token, Epidemic Sound Connect (OAuth 2.0) - Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (Beta) at https://www.epidemicsound.com/a/mcp-service/mcp - Audio delivered via Fastly's global CDN; API hosted in Europe - Versioned API surface with `/v0/` path prefix - 30-day-rotation API keys for programmatic MCP access - Partnership-gated access; credentials provisioned via the Developer Portal sources: - https://www.epidemicsound.com/business/developers/ - https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/ - https://developers.epidemicsound.com/docs/mcp/ - https://partner-content-api.epidemicsound.com/docs/spec.json - https://www.epidemicsound.com/blog/epidemic-sound-api/ updated: '2026-05-25' maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com