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Music database, critic ratings and reviews, community ratings, reviews and lists ~219,588 ~1,192,533 ~443,792 AllMusic: Music information and reviews. ~20,000,000 [7] ~2,200,000 [7] Song samples only. Discogs • Database: user-generated cross-referenced database of physical & digital releases, artists, and labels. With catalogue numbers, codes ...
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).
In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file or meta-info file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms. [1]
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 for popular tunes dating as far back as 1865. Items are scanned at 600 dpi and saved as a TIFF files. Mississippi State University: CHASE research project, University of Leeds, UK: 19th- and early 20th-century performing editions of string music 2,000 AHRC-funded research project containing music files viewable on-site or as downloads.
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 ...
A cue sheet, or cue file, is a metadata file which describes how the tracks of a CD or DVD [citation needed] are laid out. Cue sheets are stored as plain text files and commonly have a .cue filename extension. CDRWIN first introduced cue sheets, [1] which are now supported by many optical disc authoring applications and media players.