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Open Content Music Database Launched

Posted by Hemos on from the using-the-system dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Is CD cover art illeagle? by gnurb · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can get a 300x300 pixel jpg cover art image, at amazon with their webservices

    example image

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  2. Slashdot effect... by pouwelse · · Score: 4, Informative
    Hello,

    Google cache of MusicBrainz.org

    One of the MusicBrainz developers here.
    It seems our provider cannot handle the bandwidth requirements for the Slashdot effect. We are very sorry about that. Please come back tomorrow if you like out project.

    Our dual 1.2GHz Linux server is doing OK:

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    Greetings,
    J.

  3. lest we forget... by big.ears · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...the .mp3 wars of '00, MusicBrainz has been around a long time, and their 'trm' tech was apparently the stuff used by emusic to stick it to Napster:
    cf. slashdot and wired.