External Resources
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This page tries to list all external (to MusicBrainz) programs, scripts, reports, etc. that deal with MusicBrainz.
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User scripts / GreaseMonkey / User javascripts / UserJS
User scripts are javascripts that a user installs in one’s browser and that change the behaviour of visited website (MusicBrainz). Those scripts will add some functionalities to MusicBrainz or let the user do many repetitive things in only one click, etc.
Some user script repositories (alpha sorted) :
- greasyfork.org’s MusicBrainz script set
- openuserJS.org’s musicbrainz group
Other known places with userscripts:
- Murdos’ import scripts (Bandcamp, Discogs, Encyclopedisque)
- Dufferzafar’s import scripts (Amazon, TSeries)
- Rassie’s Chatlog improvements and an updated version including highlighting
- Bitmap’s set-recording-comments
- jesus2099 scripts on GitHub (mirrored on both Greasy Fork and OpenUserJS)
※ Almost all MB user scripts used to be stored at userscripts.org under the musicbrainz tag.
Unfortunately userscripts.org is dying. Some scripts can still be accessed through userscripts-mirror.org, musicbrainz tag (requires login), search #1 and search #2, but those are now read only and will never be updated there (cf. alternatives to userscripts.org).
Valuable online databases
See Other Databases.
URI | Description | Comments (on reliability etc...) |
http://www.discogs.com/ | Discogs | |
http://allmusic.com/ | Allmusic | |
http://en.wikipedia.org/ | Wikipedia | |
http://amazon.com | ||
http://amazon.co.uk | ||
http://amazon.fr | Releases dates often wrong | |
http://amazon.de | Often omits to mark imports as "[Import]" | |
http://www.metal-archives.com | Encyclopaedia_Metallum | |
http://www.encyclopedisque.fr | For French vinyls | |
http://www.lpdiscography.com/ | Has dates, labels, and catalog numbers |
About amazon's [Import] label not trustworthy, here is the smoke-proof to check whether the IMPORT is bogus or not on .fr Switch the tld to .de: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00004UH7R Check what they have as a label, in this case: Label: France (Megaphon Importservice) => it comes from france, and the [Import] is on .fr is bogus.
Other
- MusicBrainzMySQL
- Development server
- Test server
- VirtualMusicBrainzServer
- Jaikoz Audio Tagger
- DQSD (Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar): http://www.dqsd.net/
- There are many ISRC submit tools in ISRC#Resources