What is Reddit's opinion of MusicBrainz?

Quod Libet is a very nice music player, which has been steadily and properly maintained for many years, and is just not talked much about.

Together with MusicBrainz, the so-much-better than CDDB open-source database, and its Picard tagger, it makes a great solution for managing and enjoying one's music collection (for those who have not succumbed to music streaming services).

https://xkcd.com/927/

Seriously though, why not integrate your data with MB, at least on the back end? Creating another thing feels a bit like creating another wikipedia. It smells of NIH syndrome.

I suggest splitting it along the same lines that MB does, with 'Core Data' and 'Supplementary Data'.

Also include an option in your license to contribute some of the other stuff to MB (at your option) at some point in the future. So if you ever shut down your work doesn't disappear.

I have no doubt that you can do great things.

100% fake.

This is how an ISRC code should be structured.

The dude who went through all the trouble of faking this didn't even put the correct year for the code (2017).

Check out all the other ISRC codes for Kendrick or any artist. They all match up with the release date years. https://musicbrainz.org/artist/381086ea-f511-4aba-bdf9-71c753dc5077/recordings?page=2

If you create an account you can see the page's editing history. It was just added by a user with the note "charlis single". From the editing history, you can see the creator's account; someone who has previously contributed to this bootleg Charli XCX album.

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>100% fake.

>This is how an ISRC code should be structured.

>The dude who went through all the trouble of faking this didn't even put the correct year for the code (2017).

>Check out all the other ISRC codes for Kendrick or any artist. They all match up with the release date years. https://musicbrainz.org/artist/381086ea-f511-4aba-bdf9-71c753dc5077/recordings?page=2

You didn't add in G.N.D (Girls Next Door)!
Okay joke aside, the Personalized Kim So Hee's handwritten letter option is very attractive!

> What do you do when a band changes their name subtly from album to album?

I check MusicBrainz (they say "Dinosaur Jr.")

> know how many people are against editing the files as they won't coincide with the .log file. Is it against "people's rules" to re-tag the folder in, let's say, MP3TAG? Does it affect the .log file at all? If I want to add a comment or something.

There is some misinformation on your side.. Log-Files are only created when doing a accurate rip of your CD. EAC or XLD will checksum the WAVE-File and store it in the logfile. If you'd CRC32 your FLAC/ALAC - the result would be different, because you'd checksum the compressed wave + metadata.. and that makes no sense, because a lot of people re-tag their stuff. If you want to verify this, grab a FLAC+Logfile Album and run ffmpeg -i track.flac track.wav && crc32 track.wav and compare the crc checksum with the one in the logfile. You can tag however you like, it's not the relevant part of the logfile - the audiostream is. And if you transcode the Wave/FLAC to mp3, then the logfile is basically useless.

> So: original year - Name Of The Album [release year, label, country, code]

A good format, but I'd still like to give some thoughts. First, I maintain the datacurator-filetree and there is a section for music here. It's totally up to you how you label your stuff, but IMO the Catalog Number (your "code") is enough to include in the album name.

For example my naming is:

> /artists/The Wombats/The Wombats - 2011 - This Modern Glitch (Australian Tour Edition) [CD - FLAC - Lossless] {2564664336}

Precisely. "Ill Wind" is 4:16 and "Spectre" is 3:22, which are nearly the same as the track lengths in this release:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/8dc89700-aa25-4874-8d35-3cf681b96890

Most CDs don't contain any artist/title metadata, so players have to rely on track lengths to identify discs. For LPs this usually works quite well, but occasionally you get things like these.

I'm not a music buff, but I was able to piece together (google-fu) the following information.

MusicBrain describes Gabriel Faure's Sicilienne as being, "originally composed as part of the incidental music for Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, but the piece was never used for it."

Moving over to Wikipedia, the play seems to be a satire on social climbing, with the lead character making a fool of himself no matter how hard he tries.

My take on it is that Chuck thinks Jimmy is also making a fool of himself and should go back to his former status as a hustler, rather than a lawyer.

Not having watched Breaking Bad, can someone tell me who or if there is a Rebecca Bois in the series? The name could be their mother's maiden name, but the penmanship doesn't seem early 20th century.

ETA: punctuation

iTunes isn't the problem here, though I agree it should have warned you. The WAVE file format doesn't store metadata at all. Your best bet is to convert them all to something like FLAC or ALAC (if you'd like to still use iTunes) which does support metadata, and is lossless, then use a program like MusicBrainz Picard to recollect the information.

Possible quick solution:

Uninstall VLC and reinstall it again and make sure you delete/reset all the settings when it asks you to. (not sure when it does this on OSX)
When you launch VLC for the first time it should pop up and ask something like "Do you want the program to check for more info about the media online?"
Say no to that.^
Now it should just show track 1, etc.

Someone is probably trolling teachers using acoustid and musicbrainz or it's a bug relating to VLC or those services.

VLC can scan music or any audio file, find their acousticID fingerprint, take that and get the track information for from musicbrainz.

Anyone can help and contribute with fingerprints of songs tie them to music releases, someone tied the tracks on that CD to the album with those track names for some reason.

I'm real curious about the fingerprints you got, can you post one? Here is how:

Open one of the tracks in VLC.
check the media information by right clicking it in the playlist.
click the fingerprint button and then click the name
It should open a link to a page with info about that recording, post it here.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned MusicBrainz Picard. It connects to the MusicBrainz database and tags your music accordingly. I've used it to clean up tags of my 20,000+ song collection. Though, I only use it for tagging. I'm picky on my folder structure, so I do that part manually once it is correctly tagged and the renamed in my preferred convention.

I'll admit the tagging procedure wasn't terribly intuitive, but once you figure it out, it's quite powerful and much less tedious than tagging music yourself. I'd suggest following the tutorial.

I went hunting for something like this a few years ago. The only licensed products I found were the City Folk soundtrack (which has a few of the hourly songs and other in-game music) and the movie soundtrack (review here) which includes some music from Wild World (including a few hourly songs) as bonus tracks.

The credits for Quebec can be found here and are taken from the CD’s liner notes.

According to the Chocolate and Cheese 33 1/3, Deaner played drums on ‘What Deaner Was Talkin’ About’ and ‘Pony’, Claude played drums on ‘Take Me Away’ and ‘Freedom of ‘76’, Pat Frey plays drums on ‘Baby Bitch’ and the rest are all drum machine.

On GWS, Deaner plays drums on all the songs except I think maybe ‘Blackjack’.

‘White Pepper’ is the band as we know and love it now with all five guys. Think it’s probably the same for the majority of La Cucaracha too.

The rest I don’t really know though those are my two pennies.

I collect Christmas music, all genres. Your comment reminded me of an alternative music anthology disc called You Sleigh Me! that I enjoy. My favorite track is Jill Sobule covering Robert Earl Keen’s Merry Christmas from the Family.

Edit- straighten out links

A better way to do it...

Download MusicBrainz Picard. Paste this URL in the search bar, after it loads all the album info, drag in the mp3 one by one into the matching title. Save. Profit.

There is also The Evolution of East Coast Music, Vol 1. (including Peter's dream)

Volume 2. had the rock.

But my favorite is Imported from Nova Scotia (also a green CD)

What you probably are going to want to utilize is acoustic fingerprinting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Fingerprinting
https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu

VLC has plugin capability, you could probably implement it that way.

I would suggest pulling all of your info (artists, albums, tracks, cover art, etc) from the MusicBrainz database.

You could probably contribute your code to the ListenBrainz project too, it's supposed to be an open source scrobbling site run by the MetaBrainz Foundation.

Here is the list from musicbrainz of Babymetal songs he worked, he was credited (arranger seems to be sound producer):

Babymetal Death (arranger)

Megitsune (arranger)

Uki Uki ★ Midnight (arranger)

Rondo of Nightmare (arranger, composer, lyricist)

Karate (arranger,mix,writer)

Yava! (arranger,mix)

From Dusk Till Dawn (arranger,composer,mix)

GJ! (arranger,composer,lyricist,mix)

Sis. Anger (arranger,mix)

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cb3ec99f-9f7a-4301-965a-efac0754178e/relationships

https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fc65606d-5ec2-4492-8c48-e914a787f9da/relationships

This doesn't mean it's the full list, because Babymetal uses aliases in their credits for most things.

The MusicBrainz Documentation says it should be the composer first, then performers listed on the front cover. But people use all sorts of different tagging methods for classical music in real life = on Last.fm, including the labels themselves.

Mietin tässä et pitäiskö käydä ostamassa Lidlistä lisää alkoholitonta olutta, eilinen Finkbräu-kokeilu jätti ihan hyvän fiiliksen. Litkunhimo on kova, mutta sitä nyt olisi kiltisti tonne loppukuun Puntala-rockiin asti, jossa voi sit (taas) juoda sixpackin ja nukahtaa männyn juureen.

Löysin netistä ihan mukavia ilmaiskokoelmia täynnä hyvää musaa, esimerkkinä vaikka Paproota ja Psychedelic Underground Generation. Näiden löytöjen arkistoimisessa (pitää kirjata levyt Musicbrainziin ja saada tagit kohdalleen) ja kuuntelussa menee varmaan ihan leppoisasti koko viikonloppu.

Ja kissat pitäis madottaa jossain välissä. Onneks niitä voi edes hämätä liuottamalla kapselin veteen ja tarjoilemalla herkkuruoan kera.

I have around 30000 songs most of which I listen to, so I've put quite a bit of thought into this.

I have all of it centralised on my NAS. Then my various computers can mount the network share and I can play music in cmus. I also have an offsite backup and a subsonic streaming server for when I'm at uni or a friend's house.

I also store 20Gb or so on my phone for when I'm in the car and I just copy music to it with ES File Explorer.

In terms of the collection itself, it's aranged by Artist/Album. The files themselves are perfectly organised and although most has tags are correct I sometimes have the odd "and" versus "&" in the names.

Eventually I want to use Picard to sort out the tags but it will take forever. Most of my stuff is MP3-320 or V0 but some older rare stuff is 256Kbps or lower.

You would definitely want to use MusicBrainz

I've been using this multiple times a week for years. You can retag 10k files automatically in probably 10-20 minutes.

Web Scrobbler is very useful. I use it to cover YouTube, Spotify and Bandcamp, plus several other sites alongside my media player, so 90% of my listening is tracked.

Some web sites butcher the track data though, so it's also worth knowing about musicbrainz.org which is a free, open music database which can help keep your data straight. last.fm uses it as a data source and its easy to get involved with maintaining the data if you find any errors. You can alter the data that Web Scrobbler sends to last.fm and MusicBrainz is a good place to look for 'correct' data. MusicBrainz can also be used as a data source for tagging mp3s and CDs if your media player has a suitable plug-in.

There’s a python library called Mutagen that makes working with all that Metadata very simple. Just beware that it doesn’t work with Apple codecs.

If you’re not into scripting, there’s a company called MusicBrainz that makes all sorts of different programs for dealing with audio file metadata. I believe their MP3Tagger program can handle bulk editing.

The artist tag is supposed to be the actual interpret of the specific song. I don't know how it is in Mediamonkey, but in MusicBee it is like that:

You add the interpret of the song to the artist field. There is an artist splitter which allows you to add multiple artists and choose a displayed artist (like "Artist 1 feat. Artist 2"). Then there is a different field for the album artist (which could be "Various Artists" or simply the main artist of the album), but I think the album artist is ignored by Last.fm. Last.fm reads only the first song artist field / displayed artist of a specific song. Now you have the problem, if you have an album with different artists (compilation), Last.fm will create for every single song artist a new album page. This is a common problem: https://getsatisfaction.com/lastfm/topics/various-artists-compilation-albums-album-artist-tag-not-being-recognised

Probably the only thing you can do is add the album to MusicBrainz with correct tags and hope it will be recognized by Last.fm in the future: https://musicbrainz.org/release/add

Split the releases/artist information and the tracker/user datat into separate entitys. The site release info can function like a huge db similar too or mirroring musicbrainz. Eg. https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database

Make the database public and then the private tracker/website could call the public info so it is separate and doesn't get lost.

I use Bvckup 2 betafor this. It's a free PC program that does exactly what you need - creates the same folder structure from source to target. It even recognizes renamed files, so there's no unnecessary delete/copy again operations. You can set it for doing real-time monitoring or on demand check

For tagging you can try MusicBrainz database.

I'd suggest you check out https://musicbrainz.org/, it's an amazing project with a huge amount of data already added to the db.

It's client Picard allows you to analyze tracks and find the correct entries for them; then tag the music with all the data and optionally rename it.

MusicBrainz.org has some resources that could be useful. It's where Spotify gets a lot (all?) of it's metadata. There are a few different programs based on the musicbrainz database: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Taggers

most are on musicbrainz

Uncut > https://musicbrainz.org/label/4fd8d115-5173-419d-8c2a-422563406ae1

Mojo > https://musicbrainz.org/label/af9bd0f1-e994-434e-8a7c-d9303a23f32c

just search under "label". Probably not complete but the vast majority of them will be there.

for downloading, best shot is probably soulseek, just had a quick look and theres a fair few mojo and uncut magazine discs on there.

(ive got a handful of the Uncut ones. The two hard rain discs, bad moon rising, murder ballads and prison songs and Here come the nice)

I was about to ask the same thing. "Requiem" is unfortunately a quite common track name, so anything that could narrow it down would be helpful.

The most detailed and complete place would probably be musicbrainz. Taking Einojuhani Rautavaara as an example, here's his works page, which lists all of his compositions.

Near the top, you'll also see the releases tab, which lists all of the published albums with works of his on them - at least the albums that are in the musicbrainz database. If you only want to see releases that the composer actively worked on, you can look at the recordings tab.

Track 1 ends with your phrase Vroom:

I love a challenge. I have never heard of this, and sounded a little gimicky. After a few Google searches I found an obscure website that mentioned the CD in question. It came free in select packages of Kellogg's cereal in 2002.

After I found out the title: Buzz Lightyear's CD, it brought me here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WQcSbbdivCI

More info: https://musicbrainz.org/release/24ee0db8-d7af-4cf2-a09a-f8cc37839efc

If you want to buy another: for around $5: http://m.ebay.com/itm/231931363232?_mwBanner=1

What you might be seeing are the two albums having the same "disc id" -- as far as I know, commercially produced CDs are a write-once medium.

As far as unused stock goes, if you've done any amount of discount/online CD shopping, you might find an album with a cut in the spine of the jewel case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-out_(recording_industry)

Can you link what you're trying to setup and install? I see a bunch of different products on what I assume is their homepage:

https://musicbrainz.org/

I see a bunch of images out on docker hub too, are you trying these?

https://hub.docker.com/search/?isAutomated=0&isOfficial=0&page=1&pullCount=0&q=musicbrainz&starCount=0

Thanks a lot :)

I ended up settling on http://www.omdbapi.com/ if you donate to them you can download a dataset, I sent $50 and then got a full movie dump (1.1 million movies) and also a separate file which looks like it contains TV-Show episodes

After a bit of googling around I also found https://musicbrainz.org/ which looks like it might do for the music ...

Next up is books and Games and Software .. wish me luck!

They're two compositions, however, they share the same actual track in most releases. There was a demo and two live albums where they were split.

source

I learned from w3 schools and haven't run into anything that I'm unfamiliar with and use it almost daily at work.

If you want some "real world" practice, download the MusicBrainz VM here and fire it up. Then its (I believe) psql musicbrainz at the command prompt.

Think of challenges you want. Find all the albums by a particular artist. Find the average track length from another. Find the artist name, album name and medium type for each artist.

Their schema is usually out of date, so you'll be a while doing just those few things, but it will certainly teach you a lot about table joins and select statements. If you have any questions, let me know, I'll be happy to help when I have time

Lowercase s here: https://official.tameimpala.com/products/innerspeaker-vinyl-lp

And discorgs. And Musicbrainz. Modular sure suck at having a decent website, though!

Update: I found like 6 Songs of the 9 on YouTube. Only 4 have been posted under the name, Enter the 36 Chambers of DOOM.

I have also found the Tracklist:

Didn't find the whole project tho. :/

And of course, his most famous work:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/cc94b244-c5d7-4c9f-823d-38b7cb74e048/cover-art

Outside of your time range, but here's a Not Shakespeare set from a reunion show in 2015 (they were active in blacksburg from 1986-ish to the very early 2000s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khGlANvBMEQ

Also may be worth looking at MusicBrainz for musicians and bands associated with Roanoke and Blacksburg. A lot of this info came out of music in WUVT's fairly extensive local collection. https://musicbrainz.org/area/76d1e078-7861-4329-8553-f047b922c4f7/artists https://musicbrainz.org/area/1bdbf088-fecd-4c76-a1f0-54a5b8010972/artists

What are BAMs? If you need track listings for C418's albums, you could check his Bandcamp or even his Musicbrainz entry (which should be the most complete set of metadata for his music)

When there is no metadata available online, Plex will read the encoded tags from the files. The files must have been tagged incorrectly, you can manually edit the details from there to make it show up correctly.

If you're feeling up for it and to help any future users who may get that album (unlikely since it is unreleased, but you never know), you can add the metadata to Musicbrainz which is one of the sources Plex pulls their data from.

>How till yesterday all evidence and leakers pointed to a studio under IG Port

This was a half-truth: insiders know that a new studio was created under IG Port, and that Araki (AoT’s previous director) is the head of it.

Then some people made educated guess that this new studio would continue the production of AoT, but a lot of people took these guesses as facts.

Now that we know the old team is not working on the final season of AoT, it’s very likely that the new studio will actually be in charge of Kabaneri (of which Araki is also the director).

>Also why did they get another composer with Sawano and how will this affect the composition of the tracks (will each do half of the number of tracks or they will simply mix their talents together)

There could be many reasons for this. One that I can think of is to spread the workload and make the composition process faster. Though if you check out Yamamoto’s previous works, you can see that he has worked with Sawano many times before, so Sawano might have simply just wanted to work with his friend this time.

If you look up e.g. Yamamoto’s discography (on MusicBrainz, for example), you can see that they both compose mostly their own tracks in a soundtrack, so they don’t really collaborate on individual pieces.

>Could we expect freelance animators from WIT like Imai to come bacK?

Not all the freelance animators are as WIT-affiliated as Imai, but I have no doubts that at least some of them will appear in the final season, too.

If we're talking about the Dark Knight soundtrack, here's how it's credited:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/df486fa0-8fc6-3954-9391-820bca8601de

So at least some of them will be credited properly :)

This was released in audio form: https://musicbrainz.org/release/ffc71b16-e626-4449-856b-f1e51307beeb I'm sure it can be easily found on YT. The audio version of the lecture is interleaved with several songs, among them my favorite version of "Sad Waters".

So I just ripped:

The Carpenters - The Singles: 1969-1973 to FLAC

https://musicbrainz.org/release/d857eae0-dde9-3a1e-8d19-4712cc96c52e

because I'm lazy. It was sitting on my desk. And my go-to CD for testing, Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms, is upstairs.

Dropped the FLACs into my music library and used MusicBee to do bit perfect playback to my SDAC and compared it to the CD Player in a non-blind test (because I could not blind test in my setup.)

Doing critical listening on HD6xx headphones through a O2 Headphone amp, produced some super subtle differences that would never be noticed under normal listening conditions.

What did I notice?

The CD Player was the tiniest bit louder. But I mean just barely.
Karen Carpenter's vocals were just the tiniest bit more "full" and "rich." But I mean super tiny.

Notes:

I had to listen HARD to hear the difference, which tells me, in everyday listening, you will not hear a difference.
I compared a CD player to a DAC. I did not compare a DAC to a DAC. Who knows what else in the CD player could have affected the sound.
I didn't blind test anything. People praise the TD154x DACs all over the Internet. Observational bias is a strong factor in audio tests, and I may have preferred it simple because the Internet says I should.
If can find an old CD player with this DAC in it for cheap (thrift store, eBay), go for. But don't expect to get blown away by the sound. And please don't spend more $30-$50 for it.

I will try blind testing tomorrow and see what happens.

Well, there's my $0.02.

Hope it was helpful in some small way.

Good question. First time i heard this Irwindale show it was part of the Opium Den bootleg I bought on cd in 94. Since then there have been some sound board releases of the same show in it's entirety. I don't like the idea of records being pressed from cds or mp3s as it kind of defeats the purpose of listening on vinyl. I'd be okay if this was sourced from the taper who was likely using an analogue device at the time when he accessed the soundboard. Also, straight SBD recording tend to sound pretty flat without some audience sourced material mixed in. It's sad to think that someone would go to the trouble to press a record from an mp3 but there are plenty of suckers out that would buy it regardless apparently.

Sorry, really late on seeing this!

Numu's artist and release information comes from MusicBrainz.org, which is basically like wikipedia for music. Any info added to MusicBrainz will eventually end up in Numu (can take up to 3 days).

If you find that an artist is matched incorrectly to something in MusicBrainz that's random, let me know and I can fix it pretty easily.

https://musicbrainz.org/release/14705b4c-4c6e-40ae-98b6-b362662042d5

You can find all the credits to the full album here. These lists are usually written in the albums.

I would suggest delving into MusicBrainz, and then let Picard do the rest for you.

Seems like an awful lot of work to not have it uploaded to a public, automatized and standardized database. They have fields for every such kind of credits.

Something you could try to identify tracks is MusicBrainz Picard, which uses an open music database for retrieving information. It includes a mechanism called AcoustID which can attempt to match your audio file to a known track and pull the associated information for that track for you.

Your results may vary, but it's worked for some of the songs I've attempted to search for in the past, such as an arrangement by Liverne.

If you happen to also have an entire album together and know the name of the album, you can search for it in the software, and if it finds it, you can drag and drop the tracks and it'll give each track the appropriate tags.

If you decide to use Picard and need more help, feel free to PM me! I've used the software for a while and sometimes contribute to the MusicBrainz database myself.

The "gold standard" for audio Metadata these days seems to be MusicBrainz. User-submitted content, and it appears someone's already got Squeeze Box added.

Rip the CDs and load the files in their Picard program. It can scan the files to generate an "audio fingerprint" and automatically find matches with known tracks, which is usually very accurate and convenient, but that can be problematic on collections like this. It may or may not be possible to differentiate between the original CDs and the Squeeze Box CDs just from the audio fingerprint.

If you use the "Lookup in Browser" function (see "Manual Lookup" in their docs), you can specify the files are from Squeeze Box and identify them by dragging to a list of tracks. I'm probably not explaining it well, but it's very intuitive if you give it a shot.

One caveat: doesn't look like they have album art for Squeeze Box. Easiest solution is to find via Google Images or whatever, and if you drag the image file onto the album in Picard (lower right) and save, it should tag with that image. You can of course create a MusicBrainz account and add the art to the database yourself as well.

This compilation was released in 2005 on the German label Bear Family Records (catalog # BCD 16065 FM)

The 5-CD compilation also includes Federal Civil Defense Administration Posters

Additional sources:

https://musicbrainz.org/release/4675ea25-8d31-439b-96d1-f9f87c7dcf11

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A5HJ86

> it costs about $100/month for a license

That's just what it costs to have access to the live data feed, MB's data itself is licensed as CC0.

If you're fine with not being 100% up to date, there are full db dumps you can download for free.

You could also write an email stating that you'd like to use the live data feed but aren't making any money yet and they might be able to work something out, as hinted at in > We welcome working with companies that are just getting started and we're happy for your support for MetaBrainz to grow as you grow.

MusicBrainz will have the most complete list of versions of a tune (search by work), but it's a terrifically hard target so many will be left out or poorly cataloged. With a million+ new performances added every year, it's hard to track them all.

i agree. moshing is cool when people are respectful and safe about it (ex. a lot of metal concerts) but a lot of folks get hurt when they aren’t respectful and i fear that fan behavior in Mac Demarco concerts is headed in a tragic direction. here you can listen to the tape from that pumpkins show and listen to billy corgan pleading with the crowd, warning. it’s very hard to listen to in my opinion, truly a dire situation.

but anyway, moshing doesn’t happen at every concert and as long as you’re decent about it, it’s okay to move up to the front. Happy concertgoing!

You probably don't need to setup your own server. You can use the client or download the database.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Download

According to MusicBrainz it was a limited edition of 1000. There are none currently for sale on Discogs or eBay, and the artist is no longer represented by the original label—however, the label still sells the CD and has a rare vinyl section on their site. I would contact the label directly to see if they have any or any leads.

Good initial version. However this problem is far from trivial to solve. Perhaps you might find some of my tips below of use...

Don't change the working directory for the script (e.g. with chdir) have your code read the files from the path supplied.
Consider using freedb.org (formerly cddb) or other CD databases in addition/to compliment spotify.
Attempt to treat files in the same directory as a potential album. Do a file count use this to tie-break between multiple versions of the same album (e.g. regional differences in releases, remasters etc), do a check on the existing folder name to see if you can extract some data that helps you with matching (e.g. album name, artist name).
Gather calculation info on total track length individual track lengths
Attempt to generate a DiskID based on the files in the folder. Use this id to search the CD databases https://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/cps006g/fall04/class/isis/freedb.pdf, https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Disc_ID_Calculation
Add a --dryrun option that only prints out the modifications and doesn't actually perform them (writing tags is a destructive action and messing up a large mp3 collection can be quite devastating)
Add a __VERSION__ ="" with a version number at the top
And finally, really consider adding comments to your code :)

Keep up the good work! :)

If it is just for you and you currently leave your PC on all day then host it yourself. You can download the virtual images and run it ontop of Windows or w/e OS you are on. Then on HP, you just enter in the ip of the virtual and the port to have it access the MB server you are running.

Not sure on the cost of a EC2 but you can get a micro server from Amazon for free for the first year.

I did the self-hosting for a bit but back then the virtual hdd was only 20G and I felt it was going to grow out of space. Looking at the latest OVA is 27G and can be expanded to 80G which is an improvement.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Server/Setup

Edit: link to the AWS free https://aws.amazon.com/free/

It would probably be better to ask this in a postgres-specifc sub, but...

>PgAdmin keeps asking postgres user password when I'm trying to connect to the virtual server, which doesn't make sense to me.

Why doesn't it make sense to you? You need to provide login credentials. The server setup directions include a section on accessing the postgres server by first. They assume that you are using a shell/console on the virtual machine.

They also mention that you'll have to change the server configuration if you want remote access (ie access from outside the virtual machine, like pgAdmin on your Mac). They provide a link to a page that explains it in more detail.

>Is there a way to import the dumps files directly in pgAdmin without mounting a virtual server ?

pgAdmin is just a client. It can't do much without a Postgres server to connect to. There are various options for running Postgres directly under MacOS/OSX. Once you have it running, you should be able to use pgAdmin to load dump files into it.

Postgres.app is one of the easier ways to get Postgres running on a Mac

It seems Ron Blake has a 12" vinyl single titled Tom Blake, so that is probably why the auto-correction was established. What you see on the redirected page is just a copy of the "correct" page, i.e. scrobbles, listeners, tracks, and albums. But if you disable auto-correction in your personal settings and scrobble to Tom Blake, you should be able to see them there, but not other users with active auto-correction.

You could also check if the artist Tom Blake already exists on MusicBrainz, and if not, add him and his releases there, because Last.fm regularly imports and compares data from there. I can only find a Tommy Blake which is probably not your Tom Blake.

Click the "Listen"-button the right of the image (below "Like it? Like / Dislike" - above "Like & Share") - works fine here.

Available here as well. It was on this album which for some reason isn't available on Spotify no more.

A bit late but if you're familiar with command line applications, http://beets.io/ is fantastic for tagging and organising your stuff.

If you're not, https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ is also pretty good.

Both are backed by the Musicbrainz database which is pretty comprehensive.

I found the album on Discogs (and MusicBrainz). This looks awesome! Cool cover art and all. Did you get it in '84?

Care to elaborate then? The places I have looked shows them as brutal death:
Encyclopedia Metallium - Human Mincer
Last FM - Human Mincer
MusicBrainz - Human Mincer

Have they been improperly classified?

Zardonic has done some drum & bass remixes of metal songs. Metal Up Your Bass might hit the spot.

This video has samples from every track.

Personally I find MusicBrainz to be a more reliably accurate music database, but then I tend to be looking up CDs rather than vinyls, so I don't know if it has the same amount of records.

Maybe a rep system in addition to a vote (or just a vote system). I've seen similar systems work on other database type sites, so I don't see why it wouldn't work here.

Edit: Your idea reminds me of MusicBrainz, but it's geared towards music in general rather than one genre. Here's an example page: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4f0cb3b7-6c06-4317-ae35-ddf3106a17ee Their system is similar to what I described, where you can make edits and add new artists/abums/etc but they have to be approved by someone that has the rep to do so; you can gain rep by voting for suggestions and getting suggestions added.

The name is technically lowercase. https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a6c6897a-7415-4f8d-b5a5-3a5e05f3be67 . You can see that in the actual vessel release on iTunes it is lowercase. You must of not gotten your copy from iTunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vessel/id585128397

just to add to the convo, some of Nujabes' sample compilations

http://thefindmag.com/downloads/stream-rappamelo-nujabeemplicious/

https://musicbrainz.org/release/b0a3bc7e-81fb-46b3-99d7-1130d9cf9313

I'm a big fan of Yoko Kanno, so I'm going to do some research on this.

At least for Mushroom Hunting / Let The Good Shine, I suspect this was done with DJ Food's consent, as they collaborated on one of the Cowboy Bebop albums: https://musicbrainz.org/release/f20072f3-5996-4b76-a9f7-b4514422018d

Some of the examples above I would not consider plagiarism, but I'll do some more research and update this comment with my findings.

> Also, I don't think we want to sign up the mod team to determine which bands are and are not local.

https://musicbrainz.org will tell you where a band is from. If they aren't in there they probably aren't notable enough to post about anyway.

ME

I did download the sister act soundtrack and tried to figure out why my picard wasn't saving new metadata...

someone said it was because I had read-only checked on the files. Picard saves now. Picard

I was going to look at some Summer of the 17th Doll. Teacher has decided that she's going to photocopy the old edition, so..yeah.

I'm now going to read up on Scotland's Independence bid.

^(and make more funny gifs.)

Try Picard. As far as removing duplicates, itunes can recognize duplicate titles and display them. From there it's pretty much a fuckton of manual deletion. Though if your library is only 60 gigs, it shouldn't be that much trouble. I have a little over 300gb and only 2,300 of those tracks are duplicates (I have alternate and live versions of quite a few songs). But yeah, dude, Picard is your friend. For a bit more detail, here is another thread, and here is an illustrated guide. I'm sure there's more on the Musicbrainz website, but this should be sufficient.

Pawn (1986 to now)

album: Tone Sketch (2011-10-14)
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