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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."

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  1. Weird by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmm, its 3 a.m. and Slashdot is the only website I can access right now. I can't even log on to IRC....wtf?

  2. You ordered a Dell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you want pot with that?

  3. get some fresh air by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you freakin' nerd mainstream loozers,

    move your arse on saturday: and get some fresh air:
    http://www.internationalanswer.org/
    http:// www.sanjosepeace.org/

    You want your kids to ask you what you did for the wold peace in the future? do you???

  4. Re:in the news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it does not really matter. bush wil dissolve the world anyway. only YOU can stop this, on 15th February. get out speak out.

  5. Re: Hehe (IN SOVIET RUSSIA) by trotski · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone else notice they're being hosted by CCCP?

    Hehehe.... let the bad jokes (trolls?) begin :)

    --

    "Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
  6. That's some slick moderation there, guys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Modding the first post redundant, and all.

    Nice one.

  7. Hey Michael... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...You're a jerk!

  8. /.ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /.ed

  9. In Soviet Russia...... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Database launches you !!!!! Bwahahahaa.

  10. Open music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't say sticks and stones
    They might break your bones
    But the nine millimeter, it'll bore your dome
    I'm talkin about the toe-taggin
    Huh, the body-baggin
    Man, niggas are dyin, huh, mommas are cryin, casket buyin
    Who, me dyin, leave my family cryin?
    Hell no, I cause, um, bloodbaths and showers
    Send me commissary, motherfuck them flowers
    Thoughts of slaughter, of leaving my daughters
    Hours and hours of fears running through my mind
    As I pick up the Zig 9
    Beef starts with the shove and ends with the shovel
    And niggas standing on your corner reminiscing of you
    But your ass is out and you're dead and gone
    So who'd you rather be?
    The murdered, or the murderer?
    Niggas got me stressed - I got my Tek and my vest
    And I sing who Jah bless, let no man curse
    Or one of us will leave here tonight in a hearse
    For we'll be tried by 12
    And fertilizing daisies
    Crying mommas and cousins and crying babies
    Due to the fact that death is a must
    Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
    Niggas getting bust
    For in God we trust
    So if you're comin to my town and try to slow the dough down
    You must be casket-bound

    Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
    Nigga
    I sign my name on the book at your funeral
    The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
    Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6

    La-di-da-di
    Saturday night and we like to party
    The punks are fucking around so we might catch a body
    Early Sunday morning, don't really wanna hurt nobody
    So what they tryin to get?
    I already got it
    Chump motherfuckers just a-schemin on my shit
    But little do they know I got the Zig on my hip with an extra clip
    And I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
    Aw shit - murder commit
    And there goes another statistic runnin' through ballistic
    The witness say I'm wicked
    But that's how I kick it
    Cause I'll be the bastard who blasts and didn't get blasted
    Boy kiss dem casket
    I cut your wig back kid
    Sucker, look who died
    Body will be identified
    Momma and poppa will cry, bitch-ass man says he'll testify
    To see me tried, but here's I slide (?)
    Upon the same corner that you did
    And I'm still facing a bid

    Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
    Nigga
    I sign my name at the book at your funeral
    The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
    Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6

  11. IN SOVIET HORSE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...Dead Russia beats YOU!

  12. 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

    --
    blackmerlin
  13. In Dababase Russia.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Soviet launches you!! Take that you scumbag!

  14. 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"