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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. linux web server hacked by blackmerlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, our web server running e-smith [e-smith.org] (a modified version of redhat) has just been hacked. See http://www.hybridvision.net does anyone here know of these people, or any previous exploits?

    blackmerlin

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    blackmerlin
  2. Re:questions... by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You gotta love this anticompetitive clause from their noncommercial license, though:

    "Requires that you use the Gracenote Database and Gracenote ENC Client in your Licensed Application as your sole source of data from the Internet that is based on reading TOC data of any CD, ECD or CD-ROM media with your Licensed Application"