Hi, You will probably find happiness with the excellent MusicBrainz service. It's available under generous API terms, and they make a bulk dump available: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/DatabaseDownload
Its quality is excellent, worlds beyond what the FreeDB dataset provides. The database includes aliases, so there's limited but useful entity resolution: "The Go-Gos" "Go-Go's" and "The GoGos" all resolve to the same [awesome] band. (Correct answer is "Go-Go's<http://musicbrainz.org/artist/eec163e4-a013-4af0-9641-c5b2df41fff7.html>" by the way) If this fails to please, let me know; the project we're launching is a site to find any dataset in the world, and though the site isn't in full production yet I have a pretty good knowledge of the landscape. flip On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Louis Orenstein <[email protected]>wrote: > > Does the music genome project offer anything like that? > > If not could you send a search-formatted request to Gracenote's cddb > website? > > -Louis > > On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Erik Pearson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Paul, > > iLike.com has a thorough song database and easy search functionality > > but I'm not aware that they offer a web service to meet your > > needs--maybe they do? > > > > Erik > > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Greeting all, > >> > >> Hope everyone is enjoying the rain. > >> > >> So have a client project to build reporting for BMI Music. The client > >> is an online radio station http://taintradio.org. The DJ enters the > >> song information into a custom plugin I wrote. For the reporting > >> purposes we need to provided details on the track, song, artist, etc. > >> Lots of information the DJ needs to enter for each playlist item. We > >> had a thought to possibly do a lookup based on the song + artist > >> match. > >> > >> So looking to see if anyone is aware of an online service (free > >> hopefully) that might provide an API or Web Service like this. > >> > >> The only thing I've found is the old downloadable CDDB files (yuk!). > >> > >> Paul > >> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > > -- http://www.infochimps.org Connected Open Free Data --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
