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24 alternatives to Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours
Hi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists: When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons,…
Blackbox Checker helps musicians identify which of their recorded songs are unregistered or unclaimed at The MLC, the nonprofit that collects mechanical royalties from streaming platforms. Users paste a Spotify link to… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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It's been a long slow hog and I almost gave up a few times (more than a few) but when covid hit this year it gave me some time to really focus on my product. There were stupid user journey things that I knew needed fixed. There were some features I knew needed added. And I knew the pricing was wrong. I spent some hardcore time working on these things back in March / April and since then my MRR has continued to grow. My product is SongBox (https://songbox.rocks) - it's an alternative to things like bandcamp and soundcloud for creators who need to share audio files privately.…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Create a track. Publish it. Earn when it is used.
Apr 2026 · elevenlabs.io · its alternatives →
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Know how much money any musician makes
2021 · royalties-calculator.com · its alternatives →
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A richer, more detailed listening experience
2025 · newsroom.spotify.com · its alternatives →
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analysis of complete spotify streaming dataset (endsong_*.json) - pldubouilh/spotify-gdpr-dump-analysis
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Music For Makers▲218Simple royalty-free music licensing for modern storytellers.
2015 · musicformakers.com · its alternatives →
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Royalty-free AI-generated music for content creators
2023 · mubert.com · its alternatives →
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Strikefree Music▲1795 free unique, royalty-free tracks for your videos / week
2019 · its alternatives →
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TunePocket▲184✔️ Unlimited royalty free music for videos & commercial use
2018 · tunepocket.com · its alternatives →
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MusicMinutes▲76Connecting small music artists to Spotify curators
May 2026 · musicminutes.co · its alternatives →
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handa▲9The easiest and fastest way to find your unclaimed royalties
Jun 2026 · handa.app · its alternatives →
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A simple tool to help estimate your payout per stream
2017 · royaltycalc.com · its alternatives →
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Check music copyright before you publish
Aug 2026 · tonr.app · its alternatives →
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I discovered Apple Music's "Smart Playlists" easily export as TSV and got carried away :) If anyone knows a way to get the same data out of Spotify I'd love to hear it.
2023 · apple-music-stats.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Self-hosted music streaming server 🎶 with RESTful API and Web interface. Think of it as your very own Spotify! ☁️🎧 - ironsmile/euterpe
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Create takedown-safe playlists for Twitch streams and VODs
2021 · dashboard.twitch.tv · its alternatives →
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Personalised music videos from professional musicians
2020 · encoremusicians.com · its alternatives →
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Legal proof you made your music - before anyone can claim it
Apr 2026 · authentify-music.com · its alternatives →
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