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It would be reasonably trivial to set up a bot that mass-imports metadata from Spotify to MusicBrainz (note that MB rules do not allow this, community cleanup from a single user do…

In case you haven't seen it yet, this is also a great resource in conjunction with the audio dump from IA: http://mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com/ TLDR: This website contains a static…

Yes, that is why the MetaBrainz Foundation was created - good luck “purchasing” the MusicBrainz database :)

This does not work, because the “right-skewed” apostrophe is not appropriate for every case of “straight” apostrophe placement. However, making every “skewed” apostrophe “straight”…

In brief, Music Neighbourhood is a pretty visualisation that connects artists with a high ‘similarity score’, allowing you to dynamically move from artist to artist, exploring thei…

The summary of the 2023 MetaBrainz summit is out, containing concise(ish) rundowns of the past year in MetaBrainz projects. If you’re interested in open source data projects like M…

ListenBrainz has a young team of developers (contract and volunteer) who have a particular focus on, and love for, our Android app. That team has hit a milestone recently - three s…

Your local non-profit open-source metadata provider, the MetaBrainz Foundation, and Byta.com (fast and secure audio sharing), have released the last in their trio of ‘Metadata matt…

We at MetaBrainz recently released a new dataset, with the very catchy title of ‘MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata’. We posted a link to it on Hacker News and accompanied it with the …

tl;dr: …provides an easy and compact way to identify your own music files, or to match/correct music metadata. Looking up tracks on MusicBrainz can be a challenge, since you need t…

A suspicion that I also have often, these days… but no, no LLM in this case!

Hey, I was away for the long weekend, so a bit late… To answer your question, I’m 99.9% sure I’m not AI, just a derp who pastes in truncated URLs.

The MusicBrainz project by MetaBrainz has released their latest dataset, MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata. This dataset solves a number of problems involving matching music to the co…

The Discogs ‘schema’ doesn’t attempt to solve any issues brought up in the article.

I believe digs.fm is partly powered by MusicBrainz already, hurray :D