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New open dataset: MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata (metabrainz.org)
7 points by aerozol on June 12, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



If you've ever wanted to write your own music tagger, but the right data was missing to make it a fun/easier job, now is the time. I'd love to know what people think of the data set -- we at MetaBrainz have been making a lot of use of it. It powers the incoming Listen matching on our ListenBrainz project with great success.


Tomorrow we'll post a blog post outlining how easy this process has become.


tl;dr: …provides an easy and compact way to identify your own music files, or to match/correct music metadata. Looking up tracks on MusicBrainz can be a challenge, since you need to understand the schema. Not so with this dataset – import the dataset into your favorite datastore and start looking up tracks.

Have at it :)




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