Revolutionary Music Database

[Gnurb]

Stumbled on this website, musicbrainz.org, earlier. They offer a searchable interface to their database of music, let you download their database, and provide a really cool management and labeling program. It identifies mp3's by acoustical matching. All of this for free, unlike cddb---and moderated, unlike freedb. This most likely should be in the software and programing section, but I thought a lot of people would benefit.

 

[notfred]

Cool, trying it out.

 

[Gnurb]

Sweet! I beat slashdot by 10 minutes!

Hurry! before it's slashdotted!

I was just going over there to post the story, after I posted it here...

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Gnurb
Sweet! I beat slashdot by 10 minutes!

Hurry! before it's slashdotted!

I was just going over there to post the story, after I posted it here...

Slashdotted as I was looking up stuff... dead now.

 

[dc]

 

[notfred]

On the bright side, even on it's first launch day it was able to accurately look up 10% of the MP3 it tried. It definitely has promise.

 

[Gnurb]

Originally posted by: notfred
On the bright side, even on it's first launch day it was able to accurately look up 10% of the MP3 it tried. It definitely has promise.

It's at about 50% identified /50% unidentified, for me so far. With 300 scanned out of 3000.

 

[TallBill]

WONK, dead!

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Gnurb

Originally posted by: notfred
On the bright side, even on it's first launch day it was able to accurately look up 10% of the MP3 it tried. It definitely has promise.

It's at about 50% identified /50% unidentified, for me so far. With 300 scanned out of 3000.

My music tends to be fairly obscure.

EDIT: And I only ran it on a folder full of stuff that had no ID3 tags at all

 

[Orsorum]

Downloading it as we speak, can it truly do wonders for my 11k song collection?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Zakath15
Downloading it as we speak, can it truly do wonders for my 11k song collection?

The way it's being slashdotted, your whole collection will be in there by morning.

 

[dc]

hm, it actually found some of my stuff. that was unexpected.
heh. guess i'll help their jpop db.

 

[LeStEr]

Wouldnt mind trying it out but the site is slowwwwwww now

 

[dc]

heh, they need to get a better host soon. =/

 

[TallBill]

wow. im on now and its pretty sweet

 

[bunker]

Just stopping in to remind myself to look at this tonight when I get home .

 

[Jzero]

Was I the only person to see "Revolutionary Music Database" and start humming "Yankee Doodle?"