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Open content music database. 45,520,390 [19] 3,258,314 [19] 2,371,603 [19] GPL/LGPL/PD/CC BY-NC-SA. Free API [20] and XML data dumps. [21] MusicID: Official charts and indicative revenue data going back to 1900 [22] Aggregator of chart data from sources such as Billboard, OCC and more [23] Rate Your Music: Music database, community ratings ...
MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD metadata (information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a ...
CDDB was designed around the task of identifying entire CDs, not merely single tracks. The identification process involves creating a "discid", a sort of "fingerprint" of a CD created by performing calculations on the track duration information stored in the table-of-contents of the CD (see the following section for an example calculation).
Freedb was a database of user-submitted compact disc track listings, [1] where all the content was under the GNU General Public License. To look up CD information over the Internet, a client program calculated a hash function from the CD table of contents and used it as a disc ID to query the database. If the disc was in the database, the ...
Gracenote is known for MusicID, a music recognition software which identifies compact discs and delivers artist metadata and cover art to the desktop. The Gracenote database includes music genre and mood information, TV show descriptions, episode information, and channel line-ups, movie cast and crew information, and sports statistics and results.
Sheet music and open-source sheet music cataloging software. Indiana University Lilly Library, the Indiana State Library, the Indiana State Museum, and the Indiana Historical Society: International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) 799,000 Public domain music scores (720,000) and recordings (79,000), including some contemporary composers.
In March 2016 SoundExchange introduced an online service to allow music services to locate metadata for 20 million sound recordings in its database. The service allows users to search SoundExchange's database of international standard recording rates, unique identifiers for sound recordings.
Discogs (/ ˌ d ɪ s ˈ k ɒ ɡ z /; short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in The New York Times as "Wikipedia-like". [4]