Erik, Prashant, Louis, Philip, thanks all for the suggestions. I think the suggestion from Philip will work the best. I was actually looking at the FreeDB this evening as a possible solution but from what I can tell it only offer information lookup by discid. The problem is I don't have the disc. I'm not ripping the songs from a CD as they expect.
Paul On Mar 27, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Philip (flip) Kromer wrote: > 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" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
