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About Liner Notes
A short piece of writing for the track, album, artist or label you are listening to — and a list of where every fact in it came from.
The facts come from public sources: MusicBrainz and Wikidata for structured data, and Wikipedia, which we read as individual facts rather than copying its prose. Each fact is stored on its own, with the source it came from recorded alongside it.
An article is then drafted by an AI model from that set of facts, and an editor reads it before it is published. Every published article carries the list of sources it drew on. Articles in other languages are written from the same facts rather than translated.
- We do not publish lyrics, in any form.
- We do not host audio. Where a recording is available, listening is handled by Spotify’s own embedded player.
- We do not link to an entity that has no published article, so a link never lands on an empty page.
A companion app for Mac shows the same articles while you listen. It is a small invite-only beta rather than a public release. Write to us if you would like to try it.
This service is not provided by Spotify and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Spotify. Track, album and artist metadata shown alongside the player comes from Spotify.