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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.
Music search engines (22 P) MusicBrainz (1 P) O. Online music database clients (33 P) Pages in category "Online music and lyrics databases"
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]
Cue sheets can describe many types of audio and data CDs. The main data (including audio) for a CD described by a cue sheet is stored in one or more files referenced by the cue sheet. Cue sheets also specify track lengths and CD-Text including track and disc titles and performers. They are especially useful when dividing audio stored in a ...