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A music companion. For a song or artist it shows who made it: the writers, producers, studios and labels, with every fact cited. It also picks music for you. It is not a streaming service.

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Search for a song you know, open it and follow any name in its credits. Or open For you, pick a few artists and swipe.

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No. Reading, searching, exploring and For you (with previews and swipes) are open. An account keeps what For you learned on any device, saves songs, keeps a history and connects Last.fm or ListenBrainz.

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You hear 30-second previews. On a song's page, Spotify's own player can play the whole song if you use Spotify.

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Find out who made a song you love, follow a producer or session musician from record to record, see what happened in music on this day, get a mix that fits your mood, or ask the map a question. The next answers show how.

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Open the song. The credits list the writers, producers, studio and label, and “By the same writers and producers” shows what else they made. Tap any name to follow it.

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Open a name from a song's credits, then open Explore. It draws the songs and releases that person is credited on. Switch the map to Timeline to read the career from left to right.

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Open the Feed and choose “On this day”. It lists anniversaries of releases and other dated facts.

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Yes. Open For you, pick a few artists, hear 30 seconds of each suggestion and swipe. You can also type the moment, like “coding” or “friends over”, and get a mix to fit it.

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Pick a genre under Browse on the home page to see its songs. Then open Explore to see how its artists, labels and places connect.

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Open the song and look for “Versions, samples and covers”. It lists what the song samples, covers or remixes, when that credit is on record.

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Yes. In Explore, switch to Ask and type it. Every answer comes with the sources it used.

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Press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac) to open the command palette. It finds pages, songs and artists. Press ? to see every shortcut.

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No. There are no ads and no paid placement. No label, artist or brand can buy a spot.

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From the artists you pick, the songs you swipe, and (if you connect them) what you play, through Last.fm or ListenBrainz: artists listeners pair with yours, songs that share a producer, label or studio, new releases near your taste. Every song says why it is there.

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fono reads your recent plays and top artists to tune For you. Your listening history stays private. It is never used as a source for facts.

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Yes. Settings has Export my data, which gives you a JSON file, and Delete account.

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From open, licensed data sources such as MusicBrainz, Wikidata and Wikipedia. Every fact carries the source name, a link, the quote it rests on and its licence, and you can open all of them from the page.

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Every fact on a page is an approved claim that points to its sources. If something is wrong, tell us through Ask fono (in the footer, the account menu and the song page menu) and a reviewer checks it against the source.

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Not on song and artist pages. Facts and connections come from sources, and the insights beside them (such as who worked with whom most often) are counted from those facts, with the number of sources shown.

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fono shows what approved sources say, and nothing else. Songs with less show fewer facts and insights, and more are added as the catalogue grows.

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The catalogue keeps growing. Artists that people search for and we lack are added from MusicBrainz data.

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New data is read, checked and published on a schedule, from every few minutes to once a day. How it works lists what runs and when.

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