MusicBrainz Reviews and details

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• Show HN: Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia

  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

• apostrophes ’ vs '

  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

• HD Sour Album Cover?

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

• Music Streaming Server that works with folders ?

  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

• Where’s everyone going for the protest? Low key sweating because Reddit is my fav Kpop space.

  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

• [UPDATE] r/Music Will Close on June 12th Indefinitely Until Reddit Takes Back Their API Policy Change

  You could pass some time on https://musicbrainz.org/ While this sub is private help grow the library of music knowledge! (Which is run by a non-profit and makes all the data free and open for everyone and doesn't charge $15K for API requests). Source: 11 months ago

• [Talk] How would you recover an album that has been seemingly wiped from the internet?

  For music, MusicBrainz is a good place to start and if I had to guess, this is the album. It is self released. The iTunes and Spotify links are indeed dead but there is a link to [Play on ListenBrainz] which are just live youtube concert links. This is really odd. Some sites list it but others don't. Source: 11 months ago

• Any good sources for album art?

  You can also try https://musicbrainz.org/. Source: 11 months ago

• Adding tracklists to release pages?

  u/woo-ah1234 is right. The catalogue importer pulls release data from various online databases (including MB) and streaming services. If the release is not available on streaming and is missing a tracklist on last.fm you can add it on MB and hopefully the importer will grab the info and import it onto last.fm on the next import cycle. Source: 11 months ago

• Is there a faster way to organize music torrents into a specific folder?

  I have been using the beets python tool and would highly recommend it. Also get familiar with musicbrainz if you plan to use it and have obscure music tastes. Source: 11 months ago

• Is there a Mac app for mp3 info restoration?

  If you only want to find info for tracks (including covers), Musicbrainz Picard is what you'll want. If you want to do more with those files, however, I'd highly recommend Meta as well. Source: 11 months ago

• Man Across the Sea - info & discussion

  Google just indexed an album some troll put on musicbrainz.org you're all going crazy kek. Source: 12 months ago

• Why are genres (and styles) seem so useless?

  I was looking into creating some Smart Collections and was looking through my genres. I know they are pulled from MusicBrainz but they still seem weird and almost useless to me. Source: 12 months ago

• is there any database for all the jpops?just song name and artist/composer and maybe album details

  There are user generated databases like MusicBrainz and Discogs, but they will be incomplete and likely have some errors. Beyond that, you'll be better off just searching the web for fan produced lists if you're just after recommendations, or just ask on here rather than asking about databases. :o). Source: 12 months ago

• What do you use to edit songs' metadata?

  Why you wasting time with a music player to edit metatada? You should use musicbrains fo that. Source: 12 months ago

• Wrong Links

  External links are imported from MusicBrainz so if some of the links are outdated they'd have to be removed from/updated with new working links there. Here's Fiona Apple's MB artist profile. You can create a MB account (registration is free) and update the info yourself if you'd like. Source: about 1 year ago

• how do i edit this part of an artist's page ? can't find it in wiki edit

  Artist info such as date/place of birth, years active, external links is imported from MusicBrainz. Source: about 1 year ago

• When a CD is ripping how does it know to name the tracks properly?

  There are several of these databases. Here is one example. Source: about 1 year ago

• MY SOLUTION - how to prevent splitting albums by artists problem

  If you aim for "perfect" you'll have to read up on https://musicbrainz.org/ and their software https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ or if you're savvy with the command line you could give https://beets.io/ a go which also uses the musicbrainz database. Source: about 1 year ago

• Any way to count collaborative tracks to each artist?

  You can use https://listenbrainz.org/ it will count all artists for a track. And you can use it along side last.fm. I scrobble to last.fm then import my history into ListenBrainz. And no mixed artist issues either as it's all matched to https://musicbrainz.org/ entries and uses IDs rather than names. Source: about 1 year ago

• Where to find CD booklet scans?

  Have you tried musicbrainz.org? They don't have everything but they have the full liner notes for a surprising number of albums usually of decent to very good quality. Source: about 1 year ago