3 month ago
Rod Begbie : BBC - Music - The first part of Auntie Beeb's integration with MusicBrainz and Wikipedia is live. Every artist in MusicBrainz now has a page on bbc.co.uk, featuring radio playcount information where available. Very cool. [via] #
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7 month ago
philgyford : Jaikoz Audio Tagger - Multi-platform ID3 tagging app, for most kinds of music file, using MusicBrainz and MusicIP. 15 quid, but powerful, even if a bit, you know, Java.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Last.fm have a gorgeous new app for doing audio fingerprinting to sort out the metadata around music - The double-translation of similar track names to audio fingerprints is a bloody fascinating way to get good solid real-world identifiers around objects like songs. I'm installing it immediately.
Simon Willison : Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata. Last.fm have started using audio fingerprints to help clean up misspelled artists and duplicate track information.
philgyford : Last.fm – the Blog · Audio Fingerprinting for Clean Metadata - Help Last.fm identify tracks, albums and artists better, in return for a future free API. Pretty slow going on my ageing PowerBook though. (via Plasticbag)
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : MusicBrainz Blog: The BBC partners with MusicBrainz for Music Metadata - More on the BBC/MusicBrainz link-up -- Not only are the Beeb paying to use MB data on their site, the music experts over there will be helping update MB. This can only be a good thing. #
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : Peel & TOTP Open Data - BBC releases music playlist data (from Peel Sessions and Top of the Pops at first), linked in with MusicBrainz IDs. Hurrah! [via] #
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47 month ago
plasticbag : MusicBrainz come to the BBC's learning lunch - After working on a project around programme information for most of the last year, I've started to get really interested in standard identifiers and metadata for all kinds of things. A universal CRID for songs is - I think - just a question of time...
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