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Video Player 00:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. For those who shapetomorrow’s music AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we organize, search, and discover music. Start for free See what's possible... Start for free See what's possible... Products AI solutions for music tagging and search 01 Auto-Tagging & Descriptions Get a rich set of tags for your songs, including genre, mood, instruments, lyric theme, and tempo, with unmatched accuracy and speed. Pair this with Cyanite’s natural language descriptions, capturing a song’s essence and mood to help place your music effectively. 01 Auto-Tagging & Descriptions Get a rich set of tags for your songs, including genre, mood, instruments, lyric theme, and tempo, with unmatched accuracy and speed. Pair this with Cyanite’s natural language descriptions, capturing a song’s essence and mood to help place your music effectively. AI Music Tagging 02 Similarity & Free Text Search Explore your music catalog with Cyanite’s advanced search tools. Similarity Search matches tracks by sound, vibe, and era, with filters like genre and BPM. Free Text Search turns your prompts – short or detailed – into perfect song matches. 02 Similarity & Free Text Search Explore your music catalog with Cyanite’s advanced search tools. Similarity Search matches tracks by sound, vibe, and era, with filters like genre and BPM. Free Text Search turns your prompts – short or detailed – into perfect song matches. AI Music Search New Advanced Search Get started Got curious?Here’s how you get started. Web App Start for free API Read the docs Music CMS Learn more Benefits Why Cyanite? Speed Cyanite customers see a 6x increase in licensing requests within the first few months, and cut search and curation time by 55% on average. Comfortably rely on precise search results while accessing your entire catalog, not just a portion. Reliability Cyanite’s algorithms are developed in-house without reliance on ChatGPT etc., ensuring full control over your music, data, and search inputs. We uphold the highest data security standards, with EU-based servers and full GDPR compliance. Innovation Lead Since 2019, we’ve been pushing the boundaries of AI-powered music discovery, from launching the first-ever prompt-based search engine to building the world’s most widely adopted tagging system. With Cyanite, you’re not just keeping up; you’re leading the change. Speed Cyanite customers see a 6x increase in licensing requests within the first few months, and cut search and curation time by 55% on average. Comfortably rely on precise search results while accessing your entire catalog, not just a portion. Reliability Cyanite’s algorithms are developed in-house without reliance on ChatGPT etc., ensuring full control over your music, data, and search inputs. We uphold the highest data security standards, with EU-based servers and full GDPR compliance. Innovation Lead Since 2019, we’ve been pushing the boundaries of AI-powered music discovery, from launching the first-ever prompt-based search engine to building the world’s most widely adopted tagging system. With Cyanite, you’re not just keeping up; you’re leading the change. Inspirations Example Integrations 1234567 Cyanite in action Case Studies AI Music Discovery: How Marmoset Uses Cyanite | A Case Study Apr 13, 2024Founded in 2010, Marmoset is a full-service music licensing agency representing hundreds of independent artists and labels. At the heart of it, their core experience involves browsing for music. They offer music discovery for any moving visual media. From sync (movies... How Melodie Music combines sound-based AI search and contextual metadata to spotlight original Australian artists Jan 20, 2026Ready to improve your music discovery workflows? Try Similarity Search in Cyanite.Cyanite aligns with our philosophy because it doesn’t use AI to generate content; it uses AI to uncover it. It solves a genuine pain point for our users: the time-consuming nature of... Music CMS Solutions Compatible with Cyanite: A Case Study Jul 30, 2024In today's digital age, efficiently managing vast amounts of content is crucial for businesses, especially in the music industry. For those who decide not to build their own library environment, music Content Management Systems (CMS) have become indispensable tools.... Customers Reviews that speak volume Adam Taylor, President & CEOWe are proud partners of Cyanite and agree with their view of the power of AI in music tagging, discovery and search. We already incorporating Cyanite tools into our engine and see the benefits to our business every day. Aaron Mendelsohn, Digital Asset ManagerWhen integrating catalogs from new signings, acquisitions, or sub-publishing deals, using Cyanite ensures we have consistent & unified tagging across all of our repertoire, regardless of its origin. Both on and off DISCO. Carl Hickox, Director of Music CatalogAfter thorough evaluation, we confidently chose Cyanite as our partner to integrate AI tagging and search into slip.stream. It’s been a game-changer for our platform, and we’re thrilled to have Cyanite as an invaluable collaborator. Joey Goldberger, Director, Sync & MicrolicensingWe’ve been lucky to get early access to Cyanite’s new Free Text Search and in this short period of time, songs which we found through this super intuitive system have already gotten licensing requests and one successful sale. We are big fans. Geraldo Ramos, CEO Choosing Cyanite for our Auto-Tagging module was a combination of their unparalleled tagging accuracy, the robust and reliable API, and a team that not only understands our requirements but also collaborates seamlessly with us on a personal level. 12345 Adam Taylor, President & CEOWe are proud partners of Cyanite and agree with their view of the power of AI in music tagging, discovery and search. We already incorporating Cyanite tools into our engine and see the benefits to our business every day. Aaron Mendelsohn, Digital Asset ManagerWhen integrating catalogs from new signings, acquisitions, or sub-publishing deals, using Cyanite ensures we have consistent & unified tagging across all of our repertoire, regardless of its origin. Both on and off DISCO. Carl Hickox, Director of Music CatalogAfter thorough evaluation, we confidently chose Cyanite as our partner to integrate AI tagging and search into slip.stream. It’s been a game-changer for our platform, and we’re thrilled to have Cyanite as an invaluable collaborator. Joey Goldberger, Director, Sync & MicrolicensingWe’ve been lucky to get early access to Cyanite’s new Free Text Search and in this short period of time, songs which we found through this super intuitive system have already gotten licensing requests and one successful sale. We are big fans. Geraldo Ramos, CEO Choosing Cyanite for our Auto-Tagging module was a combination of their unparalleled tagging accuracy, the robust and reliable API, and a team that not only understands our requirements but also collaborates seamlessly with us on a personal level. 12345 Contact Say hello! Let’s connect and create together: reach out to us for business opportunities, idea sharing, collaboration, and joining our team. We’re excited to hear from you and explore the possibilities! Name Email Address Subject Message 11 + 9 = Submit --- Video Player 00:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. We help create Music Moments. Our Vision With our entirely in-house developed, proprietary AI, we build all the tools you need to create Music Moments that stick with you – some just for a while, and some for your entire life. It’s all about finding and delivering that one perfect song at the right time. We want to become the universal intelligence that understands, indexes and recommends the world’s music. An intelligence that can translate music into anything and anything into the right music. The next Music Moment is just one song away. Company Story This is whowe are. Founded in 2019, Cyanite is one of the first companies to offer AI-based tagging and music search as-a-service. The quality of Cyanite is confirmed by 200+ music companies and over 200k web app users worldwide who use our products and tools daily to analyze and search music and organize their catalogs. In our work, we utilize our extensive knowledge of music emotions and psychology to help music companies turn their catalogs into their own personal Spotify – powered with the simplicity, visibility, and functionality that today’s users expect. Our proprietary AI technology includes Auto-Tagging, Similarity Search, song visualizations, and Free Text Search offered in the Cyanite Web App and Cyanite API – all there to help you get your content placed better and faster. Our company has an academic background, having started on the premises of the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, where the founding team met. Our data science team comprises the graduates of the Music Information Retrieval chair at the Technical University of Berlin. Cyanite is your trusted partner who can help you get ahead and stay on top of a dynamic AI landscape. Numbers This is Cyanitein Numbers 200+ Customers Worldwide 13 Team Members 26 Tagging Categories 35m Songs Analyzed Growing Daily 200k Users of our Free Web App 35m Songs Analyzed Growing Daily 200k Users of our Free Web App Our Story This has beenour Journey 2017 Markus Schwarzer, Joshua Weikert, and Jakob Höflich spin off the company as a founding team from the renowned German music business university Popakademie in Mannheim.   2018 Roman Gebhardt, Ph.D. candidate from the Music Information Retrieval chair at Technical University Berlin, joins Cyanite to start developing first algorithms. 2019 Cyanite is officially launched at Tech Open Air Berlin with the first set of genre and mood algorithms in response to the masses of music flooding the internet.   2019 TechCrunch awards Cyanite as one of the most promising German startups in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the Disrupt conference in Berlin. 2020 After successes in Germany with national broadcaster SWR and media powerhouse RTL, Cyanite partners with international companies such as the US record pool BPM Supreme.   2021 Advanced tagging and search capabilities enable industry leaders in production music and sound branding such as APM Music and amp sound branding to integrate Cyanite’s technology. 2022 Music industry veteran Jay Ahern joins the further growth of Cyanite as a Director of Music Industry Relations and with previous stations at LANDR, PIAS, Domino, Beatport, Hardwax and The Orchard.   2022 Cyanite closes seed round of €800,000 led by former finetunes founders Oke Göttlich and Henning Thieß to further expand its AI-based solution for the music industry. 2023 Cyanite launches Free Text Search – the first prompt-based music search engine that can instantly translate complex text input into its closest musical equivalent.   2023 Cyanite acquires AI-based sample platform aptone to expand its AI solutions for the music industry and drive international growth. 2023 Celebrating its fourth birthday, Cyanite marks the occasion with the unveiling of a brand-new, re-branded website, and refreshed corporate design.   2023 At Reeperbahn Festival, Cyanite received the VIA Award 2023 in the category “Best New Music Business” by Germany’s Association of Independent Musicians and Music Companies. 2024 Cyanite welcomes two new members to its developer team: Christopher Darlington and Bastian Werner – strengthening the company’s development capabilities and supporting its ongoing growth.   2024 Cyanite releases the most significant web app update to date, introducing the most accurate genre tagging model in the industry. In addition, the update includes new instruments and new library views. 2024 Cyanite celebrates reaching the milestone of 100,000 monthly users on its web app, enabling music analysis, search, and discovery for everyone. This achievement underlines the company’s commitment to influence and innovate the music industry.   2025 Cyanite is now integrated with almost all major music content management systems worldwide, including SourceAudio, Synchtank, Reprtoir, Harvest Media, Cadenzabox, Soundminer, and MusicMaster. Our Story This is has beenour Journey  2017 Markus Schwarzer, Joshua Weikert, and Jakob Höflich spin off the company as a founding team from the renowned German music business university Popakademie in Mannheim.  2018 Roman Gebhardt, Ph.D. candidate from the Music Information Retrieval chair at Technical University Berlin, joins Cyanite to start developing first algorithms.  2019 Cyanite is officially launched at Tech Open Air Berlin with the first set of genre and mood algorithms in response to the masses of music flooding the internet.  2019 TechCrunch awards Cyanite as one of the most promising German startups in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning at the Disrupt conference in Berlin.  2020 After successes in Germany with national broadcaster SWR and media powerhouse RTL, Cyanite partners with international companies such as the US record pool BPM Supreme.  2021 Advanced tagging and search capabilities enable industry leaders in production music and sound branding such as APM Music and amp sound branding to integrate Cyanite’s technology.  2022 Music industry veteran Jay Ahern joins the further growth of Cyanite as a Director of Music Industry Relations and with previous stations at LANDR, PIAS, Domino, Beatport, Hardwax and The Orchard.  2022 Cyanite closes seed round of €800,000 led by former finetunes founders Oke Göttlich and Henning Thieß to further expand its AI-based solution for the music industry.  2023 Cyanite launches Free Text Search – the first prompt-based music search engine that can instantly translate complex text input into its closest musical equivalent.  2023 Cyanite acquires AI-based sample platform aptone to expand its AI solutions for the music industry and drive international growth.  2023 Celebrating its fourth birthday, Cyanite marks the occasion with the unveiling of a brand-new, re-branded website, and refreshed corporate design.  2023 At Reeperbahn Festival, Cyanite received the VIA Award 2023 in the category “Best New Music Business” by Germany’s Association of Independent Musicians and Music Companies.  2024 Cyanite is excited to welcome two new members to our developer team: Christopher Darlington and Bastian Werner. Their addition strengthens our development capabilities and supports our ongoing growth.  2024 Cyanite releases the most significant web app update to date, introducing the most accurate genre tagging model in the industry. In addition, the update includes new instruments and new library views.  2024 Cyanite celebrates reaching the milestone of 100,000 monthly users on its web app, enabling music analysis, search, and discovery for everyone. This achievement underlines the company’s commitment to influence and innovate the music industry.  2025 Cyanite is now integrated with almost all major music content management systems worldwide, including SourceAudio, Synchtank, Reprtoir, Harvest Media, Cadenzabox, Soundminer, and MusicMaster. Our Offices Where you can find us We are a fully remote team that often gets together to celebrate our successes. We work with clients worldwide including the USA, UK, Germany, Canada, South Korea, Italy, Israel, Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, and Switzerland. Berlinelceedee UG (haftungsbeschränkt) c/o HUM SystemsSchinkestraße 9 12047 BerlinGermany Mannheimelceedee UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Badenweiler Straße 468239 MannheimGermany Jobs We’re hiring! Check out our job board for new opportunities and don’t hesitate to drop us your CV via careers@cyanite.ai. Apply --- Video Player 00:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Cyanite Study The state of AI transparency in music 2025 Using metadata to identify AI Content and protect human artists Cyanite Study The state of AI transparency in music 2025 Using metadata to identify AI Content and protect human artists About the Study Cyanite, MediaTracks, and Marmoset conducted an industry survey to understand how music licensing professionals view AI transparency and contextual metadata in music selection. Get Access to the Full Study Success! First Name Last Name Email Get Access By submitting, you agree that your data will be stored and processed by Brevo. You can unsubscribe anytime. Key Findings As AI-generated music becomes more common across the industry, the goal was to explore how labeling and contextual information can protect and elevate human-made work in an evolving environment. Don’t miss out on any upcoming surveys, research and news! Our newsletter specifically for businesses. New features, smarter workflows, and insider tips - straight from the Cyanite team. Success! Email Subscribe By subscribing, you agree that your data will be stored and processed by Brevo. You can unsubscribe anytime. Our newsletter specifically for businesses. New features, smarter workflows, and insider tips - straight from the Cyanite team. Success! Email Subscribe By subscribing, you agree that your data will be stored and processed by Brevo. You can unsubscribe anytime. --- Video Player 00:0000:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Products Auto-Tagging Tag millions of songs within minutes with unprecedented accuracy. Start for free Start for free See Cyanite's Taxonomy 01 Auto-Tagging Automatically get your songs tagged with metadata. Streamline your music library management, enhance discoverability for playlist curation or licensing, and save valuable time and resources. Experience the efficiency and accuracy of AI-powered music tagging with Cyanite. Automatically get your songs tagged with metadata. Streamline your music library management, enhance discoverability for playlist curation or licensing, and save valuable time and resources. Experience the efficiency and accuracy of AI-powered tagging with Cyanite. Try Your Own Songs How it Works Start for free How it Works 123 123 Beyond Tags Auto-Descriptions 02 Auto-Descriptions By analyzing audio features and patterns, the AI crafts summaries of your music that provide deeper context and enhance our tagging – without relying on external LLMs. Elevate your music library with precise & objective Auto-Descriptions ideal for licensing, playlisting, and catalog management. By analyzing audio features and patterns, the AI crafts summaries of your music that provide deeper context and enhance our tagging – without relying on external LLMs. Elevate your music library with precise & objective Auto-Descriptions ideal for licensing, playlisting, and catalog management. Try Your Own Songs 123 123 Benefits Why Cyanite tagging? Speed Cyanite tags thousands of songs in minutes saving you time, effort, and resources. Reduce your tagging backlog, legacies, and bring new content into your music library quicker. Industry Standard With over 35M songs tagged, Cyanite is the most adopted tagging taxonomy worldwide. Join the industry standard for better acceptance and collaboration in and outside your organization. Accuracy To capture every nuance of the song, you have to hear it from the beginning to the end. Cyanite scans through the entire song making sure every influence, mood-change, or instrument is captured. Speed Cyanite tags thousands of songs in minutes saving you time, effort, and resources. Reduce your tagging backlog, legacies, and bring new content into your music library quicker. Industry Standard Manual tagging may be biased by who’s tagging, their form of the day, or personal preferences. Cyanite gives your tagging the objectivity and consistency your team needs for a unified understanding of your catalog. Accuracy To capture every nuance of the song, you have to hear it from the beginning to the end. Cyanite scans through the entire song making sure every influence, mood-change, or instrument is captured. Cyanite’s Auto-Tagging hasn’t replaced our expertise - it’s become an invaluable assistant, helping us tag music faster, more consistently, and with greater depth. It enriches our workflow, allowing us to focus on the creative and strategic aspects of music placement.MediaTracks – William Saunders, Co-Owner & Creative Director Cyanite’s Auto-Tagging has completely enriched my work as a tagging specialist. Instead of replacing what I do, it acts as a powerful assistant - helping me tag music faster, more consistently, and with deeper insights.MusicMind CO – Reggie Amabile, Music Tagger Cyanite’s auto-tagging model has been remarkably accurate for production music metadata. Customer service is superb and I would highly recommend anyone serious about getting their music prepped for Sync placements to use Cyanite.Sync My Music – Jesse Josefsson, Owner 123 Try Now! 5 Free Analysis Classifier Tagging Taxonomy How it works Cyanite analyzes only the audio content of a file and does not process any embedded metadata. 01 MP3 to Spectrogram We convert the uploaded MP3 into a spectrogram, turning sound into an image – this serves as the foundation for our analysis. 02 Computer Vision Just as we hear patterns in music, our AI sees learned patterns in the spectrogram. 03 Generating Music Tags The model outputs a set of tags that describe the music. Post-processing then refines the results for greater accuracy. How it works Cyanite analyzes only the audio content of a file and does not process any embedded metadata. 01 MP3 to Spectrogram We convert the uploaded MP3 into a spectrogram, turning sound into an image – this serves as the foundation for our analysis. 02 Computer Vision Just as we hear patterns in music, our AI sees learned patterns in the spectrogram. 03 Generating Music Tags The model outputs a set of tags that describe the music. Post-processing then refines the results for greater accuracy. Read More Our newsletter specifically for businesses. New features, smarter workflows, and insider tips - straight from the Cyanite team. Success! Email Subscribe By subscribing, you agree that your data will be stored and processed by Brevo. You can unsubscribe anytime. Our newsletter specifically for businesses. New features, smarter workflows, and insider tips - straight from the Cyanite team. Success! 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