Thanks Ryan, Yeah had looked at LastFM and a few other online music sites earlier. In the case of LastFM the REST call information is there. I can hit a query for the song 'Life Like' as an example
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=track.search&track=Life+Like&api_key=b25b959554ed76058ac220b7b2e0a026 The returned result XML does contain the one artist I'm looking for, 'The Rosebuds'. But the issue is the information provided is mostly useless since is reports information the LastFM user community. How many time played, How many user have favorited this track, etc. I really need to get the 'official' song and disc ID for BMI reporting. But thanks for the reply. I have emailed the LastFM support to see if they are able to provide this information I need via the API. Paul On Mar 28, 2009, at 1:02 AM, atxryan wrote: > > There's also the Last.FM API (http://last.fm/api) if the MusicBrainz > service doesn't quite offer you all the data you need. It may be worth > some investigation because I know their web service takes ID3 (http:// > www.id3.org/) data via the Last.FM application, though I couldn't find > it documented on the API site anywhere. Their API does take a > MusicBrainz ID as one of it's params. > > -RYAN JOY > http://twitter.com/atxryan > > > On Mar 27, 8:34 pm, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 stationhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
