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Napster metadata block (no longer available)

Napster metadata is no longer available from the AudD API: the platform ceased operations. What happens if you still request it, and what to use instead.

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The AudD API used to offer a napster provider block — Napster’s (formerly Rhapsody) own metadata for a recognized recording. Napster ceased operations as a music platform, and the block was removed from the API.

What that means in practice:

  • napster is no longer a valid value for the return parameter (return_metadata in the SDKs). The supported providers are apple_music, spotify, deezer, and musicbrainz.
  • Sending napster anyway does not fail the request — the API adds warning #51 (“deprecated or nonexistent parameters”) to the response and returns no Napster block.
  • SDK versions with a typed napster field never populate it; with the SDKs’ lenient parsing it reads as null/absent.

What to use instead

  • For streaming links, request the remaining providers — Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer — or use the universal song_link that every match carries.
  • For cross-catalog identification, use isrc and upc on the match (Startup plan or higher) or the MusicBrainz block.

Related

Reading this as an AI agent? The raw Markdown is at reference/napster.md, and the full index is /resources/llms.txt.