I read this bit this morning and recalled my attempts to upload or otherwise add to the database. I couldn’t figure it out. It would be nice if the MusicBrainz DB could just accept playlists from iTunes, since that’s where a lot of metadat already lives.
I created an account and poked around with no success. Maybe there were instructions I missed somehow.
It’s not a big deal, since I have the data already, either from GraceNote or my own efforts. But giving back should be easier, shouldn’t it?
MusicBrainz free metadata service gets even better:
Cory Doctorow: A nonprofit service that adds meta-data like song-name and artist to digital music has just signed a deal to get access to an even larger database of meta-data and a better algorithm for figuring out which song is which.
MetaBrainz is a charitable nonprofit that produces MusicBrainz, a free and open alternative to Gracenote’s CDDB data, which is only available on restrictive and cumbersome terms. The Gracenote database was built by volunteers, but the company then fenced off the product of all that volunteer effort and sold it off to the highest bidders.MusicBrainz’s latest deal with MusicIP gives the charity access to a sophisticated fingerprinting algorithm as well as a much larger set of meta-data, making it an even more effective competitor to Gracenote.
<update> Well, as often happens, I looked this over once more and found out how to do it. It’s pretty tedious so I expect there are some tools I’m not aware of (geeks don’t do tedium very well). But I was able to enter/import a 2 CD release successfully (Symphony no.2 in C minor, “Resurrection” Disc 1 and 2). I’ll see if I can then match it against what I have on file here and see if it works or not.
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