Is there a unique identifier for music recordings?

Is there an identifier for music recordings that is analogous to the ISBN for books? If I want to identify a recording as a reference, is there a way to do it?

Have you asked Siri? Or Alexa? Most phones have this capability to identify a song. It doesn’t work as well for classical music in my experience though.

Sorry, I see you are asking something slightly differently. Gracenote is one database.

I don’t think there’s anything that simple to use. If you go to loc.gov and your recording comes up on their search, you could then hit the “Cite” button and get thrown a stack of information big enough to let any sentient being find the one you mean - but not a simplified unified system, no.

For better or more useful advice, I suggest you contact the music librarian at your nearest university.

From what I have seen you list the year, artist , song , album name and the record label that put out the music.

like this: Artist A, Song X, Album Y, year, Record label Z

Since this is about music, let’s move this to IMHO.

Colibri
General Questions Moderator

Yes. It’s the ISRC, the International Standard Recording Code.