Needle

The song identifier built for what you own.

Your vinyl, cassettes, CDs and obscure digital finds aren't in any public fingerprint database — especially when they're playing through a turntable, a tape deck, or the speakers in your room.

Needle changes that. Add your music library once — any source, any format. Needle generates acoustic fingerprints on the fly and discards the audio. Then drop the needle on a vinyl, pop in a cassette, or spin up a CD — Needle listens and tells you exactly what you're hearing.

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Fingerprints, not files
Upload MP3, FLAC, WAV — whatever you have. Needle generates acoustic fingerprints. We don't store your audio.
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Built for physical media
Acoustic peak-pair hashing — robust to vinyl surface noise, cassette wobble, and room acoustics.
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Live listening
Continuous detection streams audio to the server and updates as songs change. History included.
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API keys for anything
Build it into your smart home, your DJ app, your CLI tool. 10 requests a minute, free.

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