MusicBrainz is a community maintained database of music information. One of its primary uses is as a source of metadata for tagging MP3s. It provides a web service to access the data.
Questions tagged [musicbrainz]
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Error installing pip pyicu
I have been trying to install musicbrainz server on my mac and there is a step where I have to install pip pyicu. I keep getting this error:
Collecting pyicu
Downloading PyICU-1.9.5.tar.gz (181kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 184kB…

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Mapping musicbrainz URIs into Spotify URIs
Does anybody know how can I find Spotify's URI for a given artist/album's musicbrainz URI? Spotify's web-api doesn't solve my problem cause I wanna map all the musicbrainz artists and albums and it's quite slow.

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Musicbrainz fingerprinting
I've been busy with understanding the MusicBrainz database in the past few hours and as I noticed there's no command line application to tag or fingerprint audio files. Are there any CLI implementations on Musicbrainz's fingerprinting? And how can I…

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How to extract Freebase Data Dump for a particular topic
I want to extract music data from the freebase data dumps. (http://www.freebase.com/music)
Once I have the data dump how to I extract say the following properties http://www.freebase.com/music/recording?schema=
Will a better approach be get all…

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Search for AcoustID on Musicbrainz
Muscibrainz offers acoustID fingerprints, e.g., here
However, i do not find a possibility to directly search for them (like it is possible for the PUIDs or echoprints)
Am I missing something?
acoustid.org offers the information I want, but not as a…

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Convert binary image data to image and display in HTML
I'm working with Musicbrainsngs - the Python lib for Musicbrainz API. Making a request for some album artwork.
import musicbrainzngs as mb
release_group_ID = '5c14fd50-a2f1-3672-9537-b0dad91bea2f'
artwork =…

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Getting album, album art, and run time info from musicbrainz
Is there any way of getting a list of albums for an artist (band), along with a link to album art and runtime?
I've been given this endpoint, but the data it returns is…

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How to get musicbrainz track information from audio file
Can anyone tell me how to get track information from the MusicBrainz database from an audio file (mp3, wav, wma, ogg, etc...) using audio fingerprinting. I'm using MusicBrainz Sharp library, but any other library is ok.
I've seen that you must use…

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How to sort results from the MusicBrainz search API
I'm trying to retrieve track information from the MusicBrainz API, using only the artist and title as search queries:
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/?query=artist:Coldplay+AND+recording:The+Scientist
This will return every version of the…

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PHP MusicBrainz get the first release date
i am trying to get the first release date of a song using Musicbrainz. To get this i am using the mikealmond musicBrainz library.
The problem i have is that when i try to execute exactly the same code as in this example…

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Musicbrainz artist image and information
I have managed to get an artist's information using the following
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=artist:michael%20jackson
Which returns the MBID (or ID). The response here returns back a lot of information but not an image of the…

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Get tracklist of album with MusicBrainz ID
I'm currently using the mikealmond/MusicBrainz class to get the info I need from the wonderful MusicBrainz database.
But I have one problem, I need to get recordings off a release, I've found how to do it on the web API here in the browser via this…

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jquery loop conditional statement
How do I write a conditional statement for a jquery $.each loop? I tried to follow the suggestions at Is there conditional looping with $.each function in jQuery and other posts, however, I couldn't get it to…

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How to get an Album's MusicBrainz ID
I want to use the CoverArtArchiveClient to load Album Images from MusicBrainz but it requires a MusicBrainz ID (MBID). Can someone provide info on how to get the MBID for a particular Album? Code samples would be much appreciated.
Thanks

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How do I calculate song popularity based on MusicBrainz ID?
So I have 3 things for each song:
Name
Artist
MusicBrainz ID
How do I sort them by popularity?
What service can I use to match a song with it's 'stats'?
I was thinking of using YouTube, but I'm worried I'll get irrelevant results like parodies…

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