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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Musicbrainz SQL database
While searching for a music database I came across musicbrainz, I found a SQLite Musicbrainz database.
You can find the database scheme here.
and a file with create table statements and explanatory comments here.
The problem is that I only need the…
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How long until a song shows up on the Musicbrainz XML/JSON service?
I just added a release that wasn't on musicbrainz before:
http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8f6f6155-20dd-4960-9381-47805e6b50f5
Here's my query for that song that's returning 0…
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musicbrainzngs gives partial results when using release_type list
I have the following code that returns all results ( and all types )
import musicbrainzngs
result = musicbrainzngs.browse_release_groups("cc2c9c3c-b7bc-4b8b-84d8-4fbd8779e493")
I just want to filter the results in the API vs the code by setting…
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How can you access the original tag or filename text in a mp3 with a MusicBrainz: Picard plugin?
I am trying to access the filename or MetaData I have added to my music over the years. (Live), (Demo), (Live: In Athens), (Acoustic), (Live In Las Vegas 2005), (Metallica Cover), (Bonus Track), etc. I've done this to distinguish between tracks…
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Download image from Wikimedia
I've read some documentation and after some research im not sure if there is an easy way to do this.
I am using MusicBrainz to get an image of an artist. Which produces this URL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Jackson_in_1988.jpg
I…
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Process MusicBrainz Web Service
I know MusicBrainz has a version 2 available but v1 is the only way I got this far.
(This is 1 return, it is usually hundreds...):
XML:
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Querying MusicBrainz search API and get multiple artists for the specified recording
I would like to get multiple artists for a specified recording. Say I have the (main) artist name like Pat Metheny, and have the album title like "Bright Size Life". I would like to get the other (2) artists for my result (Jaco Pastorius, and Bob…
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MusicBrainz SQL query
I am using the musicbrainz.org postgresql database, which I have installed locally and have accessed via pgAdmin.
The database is a list of music artists and associated criteria. Here is the schema.
It is possible to list various relationships that…
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Locating the mbid for various tracks with musicbrainzws2-java
I have imported the musicbrainzws2-java library into my project and I have been reading through the documentation that MusicBrainz has on their web service. It is very confusing though. I was wondering if someone could help me understand how to…
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Parse XML (musicbrainz) In Python
I am trying to import urls like this one (http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8) into python and extract the value of the "gender".
import urllib2
import codecs
import sys
import os
from xml.dom import…
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Howto Use musicbrainz performer tag
I am working with MusicBrainz Picard Version: 1.2. If a particular track has vocals performer I would like to copy that field to the artist tag.
e.g.
[https://musicbrainz.org/release/b251f5c0-4a41-40be-9d0d-68fdcecac317][1]
Track 1 "Khallas" I…
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How to apply the foreign key constraints to the musicbrainz database?
I’m having difficulty applying the foreign keys to the postgres musicbrainz database.
I used these excellent instructions to get me this far:
https://bitbucket.org/lalinsky/mbslave
I have all of the data loaded in postgres.
I have primary keys and…
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How to tag the correct release or a recording using MusicBrainz?
I'm using the xml web service of MusicBrainz to fetch as much data as I can about every recording that I have. When quering Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen for example. What I get is…
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Deserializing XML from MusicBrainz using RestSharp
I'm trying to retrieve XML from MusicBrainz's artist search. The XML is returned correctly from the server, but I cannot get it to deserialize to my classes. Here is a sample of the XML:
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How to compare two releases in a MusicBrainz Picard plugin?
I have been trying to write a Picard plugin. My idea is for it to automatically insert transliterated track listings as comments for releases with track titles written in non-Latin scripts. MusicBrainz contains these transliterations as…
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