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Free Music Genre Finder:
Identify Your Song
Upload your track and our free music genre detector will identify its genre in seconds. The best song genre identifier for artists & producers.
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Find My Genre
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How It Works
1
Upload Your Track
MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF or M4A, up to 60MB, so a full-quality master is fine. Your audio is analyzed securely and never shared.
2
AI Music Genre Classifier
Our RunPod-powered AI listens to your track and identifies genre patterns in under 60 seconds.
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Get Your Results
See your primary and secondary genres with confidence scores. Use this data to improve your marketing.
Your song does not have to be released
Most genre finders ask for a Spotify link or a song title. That works for music that is already out, because the answer is being looked up rather than heard. It is no use at all when the track is a mixdown sitting on your desktop.
PitchPlus reads the audio. Upload a demo, a rough mix or a finished master and it names the genre the same way every time, because nothing is being looked up. Your song needs no Spotify URI, no release date, no distributor and not a single stream. It needs to be a file.
That is usually the moment the question gets asked in the first place. You are filling in a distributor form or the Spotify for Artists pitch page, there is a genre field waiting, and the release is not live yet by definition. Looking it up was never an option. Something has to listen.
How the genre gets decided
Three genre models listen to your track separately. Each returns its own ranked list, with a confidence score attached to every guess.
We do not average them. Averaging three opinions is how a song ends up labelled "pop", which is true of almost everything and useful for nothing. Instead the model that was most confident about your specific track answers, and you see its score, so you can tell how sure the call actually is.
That matters most for music that sits between categories, and for anything these models hear less often. A track that a single classifier would flatten into a safe, wide bucket often gets named properly when three of them disagree and the most sure-footed one is allowed to speak.
Why Genre Classification Matters
Spotify Editorial Pitching
Genre is the #1 required field in Spotify for Artists. Accurate classification = better editorial placement.
Playlist Targeting
Find playlists that actually match your sound. Stop wasting money on irrelevant curator submissions.
Algorithm Optimization
Streaming algorithms categorize your music internally. Knowing your AI-detected genre helps you optimize metadata.
Marketing Strategy
Know your genre = know your audience. Target the right communities, blogs, and social channels.
You know the genre. Now get the song heard.
Genre tells you what the song is. It doesn't get it played. The same understanding that named your genre is what Spotify's editors and the algorithm read, and what tells you which playlists actually fit. That's the part that earns the streams.
Write your Spotify editorial pitch
We understand the song, then write the pitch and the genre and mood metadata that route it. Not a 500 character box you fill in blind.
Editorial PitchFind the Spotify playlists you fit
Every match scored against what your song actually is, so you pitch the curators most likely to say yes.
Smart Playlist FinderFind your song's viral hook
The best 30 seconds for Reels and TikTok, where new listeners discover you first.
Viral HookQuestions artists ask
- Is the genre finder free?
- Yes. Two analyses a day on a free account. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel. The limit resets the next day.
- Can I find the genre of a song that is not released yet?
- Yes, and that is the main reason to use it. The tool reads your audio file, so a demo, a rough mix or an unreleased master works exactly like a released track. No Spotify link and no song title needed.
- What file formats can I upload?
- MP3, WAV, FLAC, AIFF and M4A, up to 60MB. A full-quality stereo master of a normal-length song fits comfortably.
- How accurate is AI genre detection?
- Three separate models classify your track, and each attaches a confidence score to what it hears. Instead of averaging them into one flat label, the most confident model answers and you see its score. That is more honest than a single guess, and it holds up better on music that sits between genres.
- What genre is my song if it fits more than one?
- Most songs do. You get a primary genre plus the secondary genres underneath it, each with its own confidence score, so you can tell a clear call from a close one. Use the primary on a distributor form. For a Spotify pitch, the secondary genres are often what routes you to the right editor.
- What does the free Genre Finder give me, and where does it stop?
- Free gives you the genre, and only the genre: one primary genre plus up to four secondary genres beneath it, each with its own confidence score, on two songs a day. It does not give you moods, instruments, tempo, key or vocal type. Those are the paid Metadata Kit, which is the same analysis written out in full for a distributor form or a pitch. If all you need is the genre for a distributor field, the free tool is the whole answer and you never have to pay us.
- How do I find the genre of a song on Spotify?
- Spotify does not publish a genre on the track page, so there is nothing to read off a release. Genre lives in the metadata the artist submits through Spotify for Artists, and in the internal categories the algorithm builds. That is why the answer has to come from the audio itself.
- Why is my distributor asking for a genre?
- Every distributor needs a genre before it will deliver your release, because stores and streaming services file music by it. It is also the field with the longest shadow: it shapes which editorial teams see the song, which algorithmic playlists consider it, and who it gets shown to. Worth getting right rather than guessing.
- Is my audio kept private?
- Your track is used to run the analysis and nothing else. It is never shared or sold, and the file is deleted automatically once it is no longer needed.
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