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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, short for Compact Disc Database, is a database for software applications to look up audio CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. This is performed by a client which calculates a (nearly) unique disc ID and then queries the database.
Large live music archive, hosts hundreds of free music netlabels 13 million (as of 2021) [12] CC/PD Yes Jaxsta: Online database of official music credits 19,000,000 [13] • 115,000,000+ Individual Music Credits • 100,000+ Credits Ingested Daily API available. Last.fm: Music community website. ~26,484,587 [14] ~3,304,568 ~1,383,340
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.
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]
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 ...
The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the AcoustID identifier along with MusicBrainz recording identifiers if known. Since 2013 Chromaprint is the only fingerprint supported by MusicBrainz.