[HN Gopher] MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia
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MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia
Author : mmh0000
Score : 135 points
Date : 2024-09-30 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (musicbrainz.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (musicbrainz.org)
| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia (2017)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600800 - June 2022 (15
| comments)
|
| _Music Library and MusicBrainz Picard_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735626 - Dec 2021 (45
| comments)
|
| _MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14478515 - June 2017 (90
| comments)
| naveen99 wrote:
| Similar discussions:
| https://hn.garglet.com/similar/stories/14478515
| stego-tech wrote:
| MusicBrainz and its software companion, Picard, are absolute
| blessings when it comes to micromanaging a music library in this
| day and age. It can't find _everything_ I have due to entire
| artists appearing and disappearing between the closure of Napster
| and the creation of YouTube, but it gets me to that 95% CI that
| puts me at ease and lets me enjoy my collection. The fact it's
| global instead of regional (like a lot of automated DB lookups
| that cannot find my JP/ZA/DE/FR/etc albums here in AMER) is also
| a big notch in its belt.
|
| Which reminds me, it's about time for the yearly re-scan and re-
| tag.
| fletchowns wrote:
| It really is an incredible resource, and Picard is a wonderful
| app. Very satisfying getting a library properly tagged! Takes a
| while, but totally worth it. Shoutout to ListenBrainz as well,
| their scrobbling service: https://listenbrainz.org/
| kinduff wrote:
| I've been a contributor to the project and I've been using it for
| years. I love the community effort.
|
| Similar projects are also the TMDB (The Movie Database) and TVDB
| (Television and Film Database).
| heyoni wrote:
| The problem with those tv and movie databases are that they're
| owned by Roku and you can't download any data dumps...you're
| also relying on the good graces of a corporation that can cut
| you off whenever it feels like it. That was the case with IMDb
| and I'm still upset about that :/
| BLKNSLVR wrote:
| Dare I invoke the CDDB transition to Gracenote and their
| kidnapping and subsequent licensing and gatekeeping of a
| swathe of publically provided data.
| m0llusk wrote:
| Really like them in general and did my best to correctly submit
| information about media in my collection.
|
| Then everything went bad in an unexpected way. I was using
| Firefox on a Mac to interact with the site. Apparently they added
| a bunch of javascipt to the site that would automatically fill
| some fields that I didn't even understand, but the scripts did
| not execute correctly or even at all on my system. Later I got an
| angry message from someone at the site telling me that my
| submissions were unacceptable, though it isn't clear if some or
| all data was backed out or what. Given the timing it seems they
| were targeting IE6 on Windows and could not imagine any other
| kind of user. They could have somehow checked script function on
| the incoming data, and apparently eventually did that, but they
| got angry at me instead even though I put quite a bit of effort
| into correctness.
|
| Have stayed away since, but still take this as a warning about
| the kinds of things that can go wrong even with the most well
| meaning contributed data type site. And unfortunately this kind
| of music data continues to have relatively low value to most
| audiences.
| 999900000999 wrote:
| This is so cool, helped me find a release I didn't know about.
|
| Thanks for sharing
| jcfrei wrote:
| I remember using this a very long time ago to update some songs
| in my iTunes library that were just labelled Track 01, 02 and so
| on. Felt like magic.
| easwee wrote:
| ytmp3 + musicbrainz picard + puddletag = <3
| mmh0000 wrote:
| Make sure to checkout Picard:
|
| https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
|
| Which uses the MusicBrainz DB to auto tag and correct audio file
| names. Makes it really easy to organize a large collection of
| (pirated) audio.
| bbqfog wrote:
| MusicBrainz is awesome! If you like this kind of thing, also
| check out the Discogs data dumps:
|
| https://discogs-data-dumps.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index....
| andybak wrote:
| Still the only sane way to get id3 tags correct for classical.
| AndyKelley wrote:
| I recently ported
| [Chromaprint](https://github.com/acoustid/chromaprint/) to Zig.
| If there's interest I would be happy to extract it into a
| separately maintained package. For now it lives [here](https://co
| deberg.org/andrewrk/player/src/branch/main/player/...). I also
| did a [semi-related talk about
| this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCLrNqc9jdE).
|
| For context, Acoustid is a MusicBrainz-adjacent service for
| figuring out the MusicBrainz ID of a song based on the sonic
| content alone, even if it has been distorted or compressed.
| Chromaprint is the logic for computing an Acoustid given a song
| as input.
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