Questions tagged [musicbrainz]

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.

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Prepared data set "Musicbrainz" doesn't work - Detected incorrectly shut down database, performing recovery

I struggling to get the "Musicbrainz" data set running on my local machine (MacBook Air, Mountain Lion). What I did? (Basically what the video said) Downloaded data set directly from http://www.neo4j.org/develop/example_data Downloaded fresh…
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Querying MusicBrainz search API via PHP script

I'm trying to retrieve release info from the MusicBrainz database using a PHP script on my server. I have a list of songs, with song title and artist name, and I'm trying to retrieve the date of the first release of that song, along with other info…
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CDDB API for a Java application

I'm planning to make a Java application for tagging mp3 files. My first choice was Discogs but I have problems accessing the covers: in the JSON response they are too small, and i get HTTP 403 - Forbidden from those that appear on the web. So I've…
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Python JSON not breaking loop

I am trying to use the MusicBrainz API via python and am having a harrowing time trying to figure out why my loop wont break after a certain condition is met. I am passing the duration of a song and the acoustic id via a URL that fetches JSON. I am…
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Filter fetched JSON data based on a certain criteria in Python

I am new to python and am trying to fetch JSON data from musicbrainz using urllib and am able to parse some data. However, for some artists, certain fields / keys in the JSON data do not come as they might not be required. I am not sure how to…
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Access Violation while parsing XML in Delphi XE2

I'm trying to parse a MusicBraninz XML file in Delphi XE2 using the following code: webquery := 'http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/?query='+escape(tracktitle)+'&artist:'+escape(ArtistTitle); Log('WebQuery: ' + webquery, 0); begin …
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How do I figure out the disc numbers in a release result from py-musicbrainz2?

The documentation for the Python musicbrainz2 library tells me that this is how I search for a release by disc id: >>> import musicbrainz2.webservice as ws >>> q = ws.Query() >>> filter = ws.ReleaseFilter(discId='8jJklE258v6GofIqDIrE.c5ejBE-') >>>…
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PHP: Read MusicBrainz tags from AAC files

does anyone know a simple way to read the MusicBrainz tags (MBID for track, release and artist) from an AAC file? If there's an external binary it must be command line. This will only be run on my mac. I've tried the obvious things: Googling for…
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How to parse xml webservice response using Javascript or jQuery

I want to use following xml webservice. www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=artist:michael jackson which format is like below:
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Music tag finder API .NET library

I'm trying to build an application that can be used to automatically get music tag information from the web and rename my music library. I have been searching on google for any API available to help me out. So far, it seems like Discogs, Freedb,…
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Can't find track from artist and title name

I am experimenting with the musicbrainz api using NodeJs. I want to get the track info of a specific track. I can do it with ISRC but if I try to search it with artist and title name, i get the wrong results. For Example: Artist = Aphrodite's Child,…
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How to make a browse request to the musicBrainz api with the offset and limit arguments

In the musicbrainz documentation, it is said that: "Any browse request supports an 'offset=' argument to get more results. Browse requests also support 'limit=': the default limit is 25, and you can increase that up to 100." So I tried increasing…
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How to specify query parameter in Lucene search syntax?

I want to make a get request to this https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API/Search music-API.I want it to search for the name of the album and the release format. The release format should be vinyl. You can search for these things in the…
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How get values from MusicBrainz simplexml_load_file() in php?

I know there are topics related to MusicBrainz which has help me so far, but I am stuck on the below. I cannot echo the values from the result
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How to get track metadata from acoustID with Python

I have a file.mp3 with unknown tags. I've used this to get the acoustID: import acoustid acoustID= acoustid.match(API_KEY, filepath) acoustID contains several candidates, let's say I choose the best one: '0f6eb38a-d6c9-4f87-a9a7-6e7b0eeb4281'. I've…
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