Open Content Music Database Launched

An anonymous reader writes "The open source music database MusicBrainz was launched officially today. The data is partly in the public domain, partly under an open content like license. It includes artist/album/track information, with more to come. There's support for CDDB-like CD identification (actually, a lot of the current data was imported from freedb), but also identification of single tracks via audio fingerprints (TRMs). Help both in adding new content by tagging your music collection and consolidating the existing data is welcome. Also check out some technical information on the XML database at IBM developerWorks."

Comments

Hehe

[EnderWiggin99]

Anyone else notice they're being hosted by CCCP? Seriously, they could've chosen a better moniker...

Re:Hehe

[StormyWeather]

Dear god just when we though we had killed the "In Soviet Russia" jokes...

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEAD HORSE beats YOU!

la~~

Re:Incredibly well designed project

[Snoe]

Well I WAS indexing all of my mp3s (about 20gigs of albums) using their tagger and it was working very, very well. If something is misidentified it is very easy to spot and remedy.

Then, about 15 minutes ago I noticed the program was no longer speaking to their servers. Lo and behold, the story was put up on slashdot about 15 minutes ago. Not to sound paranoid or anything but I think this coincidence is a little creepy.

Re:What will the RIAA think?!?

[hackstraw]

AFAIK, the RIIA isn't opposed to you having information about the music that you own. They are just against you listening to the music that you own.

Re:Imagine an all-legal file sharing P2P network..

[Zwets]

"The RIAA _claim_ sharing their content hurts the bottom line, but imagine the damage caused when people learn they can find their own legal music..."

Yeah, it's about time there were alternatives to all that overpriced commercial music.

Let's create free, open-source versions of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys!