The code that runs it is open too: https://github.com/metabrainz/
MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
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Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#32Just to push home the awesomeness of crazy music nerds that together create MusicBrainz, please have a look at these two examples: 1. Number of releases per album individually tagged: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/f5093c06-23e3-404f-aea... 2. The amount of metadata for an album: https://musicbrainz.org/release/b84ee12a-09ef-421b-82de-0441... When you get used to this kind of high quality metadata, it's just s…
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Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#33What (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.
I upvote many things that I already know of to let others become aware of them. It's a bit like xkcd #1053 [1], when I encourage others to read about something, they might then write comments about that thing offering new insights etc. that is of value to me. Additionally, them having become aware of that thing now might lead to them caring about that thing and doing something related to that thing that is of value to me in the future. But really my primary motivation is simply that I think that things I like deserve that I upvote them so that others can enjoy those things too regardless of future utility to me.
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#34I hope these guys don't flip like Gracenote did...Gracenote was all crowdsourced user contributions (for a long time at least) but then they closed off the data and sold it to Sony for $250+ million.
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#35Offtopic question: Is there a similar tool for managing or tagging metadata for movies and television?
http://www.filebot.net
Very powerful file renaming tool that also leverages TheTVDB, AniDB, TheMovieDB, etc for TV and movies. Both GUI and command-line versions available, I always use the (free) command-line version even though I paid for the GUI.
It also accepts scripts, has smart/fuzzy matching, and is an all-around good renaming tool for other things too.
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#36I've been contributing data and code to MB and it's sibling projects for over two years now and the community has been great from day one!
Just to name a few of the other projects, there's AcousticBrainz [1] collecting acoustic information which may be pretty useful for machine learning, CritiqueBrainz [2] for collecting user reviews of songs, albums and more, ListenBrainz [3], an open scrobbling service a group of people including former last.fm employees initially hacked together in a weekend, and finally BookBrainz [4], which tries to be what MB is but for books.
During the last year the people running MB have worked on getting companies using the data to support the project resulting in a quite impressive list of supporters [5] including big names like Google, Spotify and the BBC.
MB has also collaborated with our fellow data nerds over at the Internet Archive to create the Cover Art Archive. [6]
In general the project is run by people who equally love both data and hacking. Feel free to stop by on the IRC channels #musicbrainz and #metabrainz on freenode!
[1]: https://acousticbrainz.org/ [2]: https://critiquebrainz.org/ [3]: https://listenbrainz.org/ [4]: https://bookbrainz.org/ [5]: https://metabrainz.org/supporters [6]: https://coverartarchive.org/
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#37I hope these guys don't flip like Gracenote did...Gracenote was all crowdsourced user contributions (for a long time at least) but then they closed off the data and sold it to Sony for $250+ million.
All MB data is licensed as either CC0 (for core data) or CC BY-NC-SA for user-related data. [1]
As far as I understand it, this can't be changed unless every user who ever edited data agreed to that.
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#38Offtopic question: Is there a similar tool for managing or tagging metadata for movies and television?
If your filenames are already decent and you just want to be able to better browse/manage your content, I fully recommend Plex. It'll pull down names, artwork, descriptions, and everything else.
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#39Full props to Robert Kaye, the founder. He's been raising this child for 15 years now.
They had a pretty close call at some point and nearly died. All is well that ends well. There also was freedb ( http://www.freedb.org/ ), not sure if that is still kept up-to-date.
It seems like MAGIX Software is now running FreeDB.
As far as I understand it, it's data quality really isn't great and according to their statistics [1], they've only had just over 7,000 album requests last week.
[1]: http://www.freedb.org/en/statistics__album_requests.14.html
Re: MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
#40always 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 you want your own music to be properly tagged with MBIDs you could just add it to the database yourself!
Unlike Wikipedia, there is truly nothing too niche to be part of MB's database. My favourite is a CD with the music that plays while you're on hold calling Lidl Spain. [1]
[1]: https://musicbrainz.org/release/c9a6a6e5-4bb8-4738-a1d6-411f...