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Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by nothrabannosir »

ozzmotik wrote: post #5

always nice to see something of such utility pop up. musicbrainz has most assuredly been around for what seems like forever now, and there's a reason for that. their tag database is second to none as far as im concerned. unfortunately for me, the only music I keep locally is my own music that I've made, and I can almost guarantee that that wouldn't be on there. plus i tag all my music properly to a point that might s…

If all you're using MP3 for is the space saving and metadata, you might like ogg/opus. It's the Opus codec (the state of the art in audio codecs right now) in an Ogg wrapper.

You'll find a portable player capable of handling vinyl before you find one that plays ogg/opus, but desktop software is mostly fine.

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by vlunkr »

half-kh-hacker wrote: post #3

I've been using MusicBrainz' Picard to tag my music files (that I acquired 100% legitimately, I assure you.) for a few months now. They seem to have everything I throw at them, except for: 1) Extremely new releases (on the order of a-few-hours-after-release) 2) Some niche songs that haven't been officially released (soundtracks for some Korean television shows)

I also use it to organize music. Once it identifies something you can have it save to a artist/album/00-name type pattern (the path is configurable). Before I had issues like track listing problems, artists or albums with 'and' vs '&', capitalization inconsistencies etc. This resolves most things like that.

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by MrZeus »

nothrabannosir wrote: post #11
ozzmotik wrote: post #5

always nice to see something of such utility pop up. musicbrainz has most assuredly been around for what seems like forever now, and there's a reason for that. their tag database is second to none as far as im concerned. unfortunately for me, the only music I keep locally is my own music that I've made, and I can almost guarantee that that wouldn't be on there. plus i tag all my music properly to a point that might s…

If all you're using MP3 for is the space saving and metadata, you might like ogg/opus. It's the Opus codec (the state of the art in audio codecs right now) in an Ogg wrapper. You'll find a portable player capable of handling vinyl before you find one that plays ogg/opus, but desktop software is mostly fine.

Not quite, you can install Rockbox on pretty much any portable player. It supports Opus and FLAC among many other formats.

https://www.rockbox.org/

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by buu700 »

I used the MusicBrainz API a while back for a side project that got me sued for some reason (http://tcrn.ch/2rEox3h).

As I recall, it was pleasant to work with and did what I needed it to quite nicely, aside from a feature that my code had depended on being removed — anonymous/unauthenticated search — at which point the project was already basically dead and not worth trying to fix (that was just the last nail in the coffin). In any case, nice to see that it's still active.

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by bgammon »

I discovered MusicBrainz Picard about a year ago and it handled my collection pretty flawlessly.

I was always wanting to know since then if there are other maintained/curated music databases.

I also didn't realize at first that they offer a public API. The Picard client was decent, but I'd be interested in a command-line solution. Does anyone know if this exists?

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by thorel »

bgammon wrote: post #15

I discovered MusicBrainz Picard about a year ago and it handled my collection pretty flawlessly. I was always wanting to know since then if there are other maintained/curated music databases. I also didn't realize at first that they offer a public API. The Picard client was decent, but I'd be interested in a command-line solution. Does anyone know if this exists?

I am not entirely sure this is what you are looking for, but Beets [0] is a really cool command-line music organiser which uses the MusicBrainz database.

[0] http://beets.io/

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by exogen »

I love MusicBrainz and have been using it for a project of mine for the past few years. In the course of developing that project, I ended up making a GraphQL interface to the MusicBrainz API: https://github.com/exogen/graphbrainz

You should try out the demo queries linked from that README if you want to get a sense of the depth of information available in their database.

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by bombtrack »

bgammon wrote: post #15

I discovered MusicBrainz Picard about a year ago and it handled my collection pretty flawlessly. I was always wanting to know since then if there are other maintained/curated music databases. I also didn't realize at first that they offer a public API. The Picard client was decent, but I'd be interested in a command-line solution. Does anyone know if this exists?

I will wholeheartedly echo the sibling's suggestion for beets (http://beets.io/).

No music makes it into my collection unless it's been imported via beets. It has a powerful import/query/alter API, sufficient config options, and a nice plugin system.

Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia

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Post by jorvi »

unicornporn wrote: post #2

What (and when something) ends up on the first page never ceases to surprise. I've used this I don't know how long. Could it be 15 years? Their official tagging client (Picard) is OK, but I prefer tagging using Mp3tag and the MusicBrainz database.

Seconded. mp3tag and the MusicBrainz database are marvelous. I used to have a music collection of 25.000+ tracks, and once I discovered aforementioned tools it was an absolute blessing, especially for tracks that that had poor (or non-existant!) tags.

I'm fully into Spotify now, minus the 1000 or so tracks I couldn't match, but damn, does talking about this take me back. Lugging around my 160Gb iPod Classic and still not being able to fit all my music. UT2004 instagib & Counter Strike LAN parties and swapping entire media libraries.. movies and series included. It was a fun time :)

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