I saw this from Wired News today:
Service Keeps Music Files Humming By Katie Dean
It describes an open-source, community-run site, MusicBrainz, that provides metadata for audio files. It's also going to provide some peer-to-peer recommendation features.
Posted by dcplumer at February 28, 2003 12:43 AMThanks for posting this article. I have used CDDB, but haven't always been satified. It's only really useful for CDs as a whole since their system uses time signatures for identification. If you have mixed CDs, it doesn't work.
MusicBrainz "extracts the unique audio characteristics of the track -- like beats per minute and the amount of bass and treble, for example -- and then the MusicBrainz Tagger marks each file with a unique identifier." Identifying songs by how they sound is pretty remarkable. I can't wait to check it out - and best of all it's free....
Posted by: Tara on February 28, 2003 10:09 AM
It is very interesting. Some classmate from my undergraduate university did a project on music metadata using XML. At that time, I thought it was a very good idea and if some people can develop it further, it would be very useful.
Posted by: zhanglan on March 6, 2003 10:02 PM