MusicBrainz VS Album of The Year

It is really cool and useful. Interesting that you were able to gather enough data from users to make it work. I guess it was much less useful in the beginning? I thought of making something similar with data from https://musicbrainz.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

What do you use to tag your music? I imagine if you use a consistent piece of software (mp3tag, musicbrainz picard), they're going to do it the same way. Or for example, maybe musicbrainz.org allows people to enter metadata in their database in UTF-8, so it's possible you might get different answers from there even though you're using a standard piece of software. I imagine something like picard could use a search... Source: 5 months ago

The MusicBrainz database usually has hq versions of most covers. Source: 10 months ago

When it comes to MusicBrainzPicard, it pulls data directly from https://musicbrainz.org/. If you are finding music you have that isn't listed in the database, you could help out by contributing to the database so that everyone gets access to that music. Source: 10 months ago

While this doesn't help with replacing the discussion you get on reddit, might I suggest people spend some time contributing to their favourite artists on https://musicbrainz.org/ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musicbrainz )? Many services & apps use MusicBrainz data, so you could help your favourites by making sure the information for their entries on MusicBrainz is as complete and accurate as possible! Source: 11 months ago

For new music I usually go to https://albumoftheyear.org/ every Friday and pick some albums to listen during the week. Source: 5 months ago

2.) "Pray For the Wicked": The band, in its later years, were criticized for selling out and going into a mainstream bubble-gum theatrical pop sound as early as "Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die", but this album is when the band went FULL radio pop, almost in a way similar to Jewel or The Human League. On Panic!'s albumoftheyear.org page, this album is their second lowest user-rated release at 49/100% next to... Source: 10 months ago

Data was gathered from the music reviewing website albumoftheyear.org. Column A is the album the song is from, Column B is the name of the song, Column C is its score out of 100. Source: 11 months ago

On albumoftheyear.org Swans has 75 songs rated above a 90, this the most on the site. Source: 11 months ago

Swans right now has 75 songs rated above a 90 on albumoftheyear.org, this is by far the highest. Source: 11 months ago