Question

music websites that dont categorize as video/audio or music

Answer 1

I want to make sure I understand. Do you mean:

A) Websites about music that are not primarily audio/video players (i.e., sites that focus on news, notation, theory, metadata, tabs, lyrics, communities, etc.), or
B) Websites that intentionally do not label or categorize content as “video / audio / music” (for example sites that organize by tags, projects, images, or other metadata instead of a media-type category)?

Tell me which you mean. Meanwhile, here’s a useful list for interpretation A (music sites that aren’t primarily streaming video/audio), grouped by function with a one-line note each:

News / Reviews / Blogs
- Pitchfork — indie/alternative music reviews and features. (pitchfork.com)
- Rolling Stone — music news, features, culture. (rollingstone.com)
- Stereogum — indie news, premieres, commentary. (stereogum.com)

Metadata / Discographies / Databases
- Discogs — user-built database of releases, labels, collectors’ marketplace. (discogs.com)
- AllMusic — artist biographies, reviews, credits, genre info. (allmusic.com)
- MusicBrainz — open music encyclopedia of metadata. (musicbrainz.org)

Scores / Sheet Music / Notation
- IMSLP (Petrucci) — public-domain sheet music library (classical). (imslp.org)
- MuseScore — user-shared scores and notation software. (musescore.com)
- Flat.io — online music notation and collaboration. (flat.io)

Tabs / Chords / Learning
- Ultimate Guitar — tabs, chords, lessons. (ultimate-guitar.com)
- Chordify — extracts chords from songs and shows chord diagrams. (chordify.net)
- JustinGuitar / GuitarTricks — guitar lessons and tutorials. (justinguitar.com, guitartricks.com)

Theory / Education / Tools
- MusicTheory.net — lessons, exercises, tools for theory. (musictheory.net)
- Teoria — ear training and theory tutorials. (teoria.com)
- Hooktheory — songwriting and harmonic analysis tools. (hooktheory.com)

Lyrics / Annotation / Community
- Genius — lyric annotation, context, user contributions. (genius.com)
- AZLyrics / MetroLyrics — lyric lookup databases.

Events / Touring / Live
- Songkick — concert listings and tour alerts. (songkick.com)
- Bandsintown — tour tracking and live-event discovery. (bandsintown.com)

Specialized / Misc
- Splice — samples, plugins, collaboration tools (producer-focused). (splice.com)
- Bandcamp — artist-driven direct sales & discovery (focus on releases/merch rather than “video/audio” categories). (bandcamp.com)

If you meant B (sites that avoid media-type categories), tell me and I’ll assemble examples and explain how they organize content (tags, projects, feeds, visual-first interfaces, etc.).