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MusicBrainz in the News

[http:#news News stories and articles], [http:#blog items from the Blogosphere], and our official Press Releases:

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Blog items

• 2009-02-18:

• Marc Hibbins talks about BBC's work on integrating and exposing semantic data (amongst others: MusicBrainz, Wikipedia), Linked_Data and points up the value of MusicBrainz unique identifers.

• 2008-10-28:

• CreativeCommons blog published an interview with Robert Kaye talking about CreativeCommons usage in MusicBrainz, communities project and future of MusicBrainz.

• 2008-09-02:

• Andrea James from the Seattle Post Intelligencer talks about the launch of Amazon's SoundUnwound service using MusicBrainz data.

• 2008-07-28:

• Matthew Shorter talks about the launch of BBC's Dynamic Artist Pages beta program and its use of MusicBrainz's identifiers and data.

• 2008-07-04:

• Rob Pegoraro, of the Washington Post mentions MusicBrainz, Picard and iEatBrainz in a column Q&A on tagging music files with unknown artist names and tracks.

• 2005-04-19:

• Joi Ito talks about the launch of the MetaBrainz Foundation.

• 2005-03-28:

• crschmidt talks about using MusicBrainz with the MeNow project.

• 2004-10-23:

• Brian Alger's Cybersphere blog has an item on MusicBrainz and Ethnomusicology.

• 2004-10-13:

• Mike Linksvayer of CreativeCommons has two items on MusicBrainz in his gondwanaland.com blog.

• 2004-03-20:

• Japanese blog OTO-NETA has an item on MusicBrainz. (??? Japanese)

• 2004-03-20:

• CreativeCommons' blog has an entry on MusicBrainz for OS X using iEatBrainz.

• 2003-09-22:

• Leigh Dodd's Lost Boy blog notes his release of a beta-1 Java API for MusicBrainz.

• 2003-03-07:

• Joi Ito's Web has a blog item on Robert Kaye and MusicBrainz.

• 2003-02-18:

• The Flexistentialism blog has an item on MusicBrainz.

• 2003-02-11:

• Gordon Mohr of Bitzi analyzes the MusicBrainz launch on his O'Reilly Developer blog.

• 2003-01-28:

• Musician Lisa Rein's blog mentions Robert Kaye and MusicBrainz in an item on Ogg Vorbis.

News Stories and Articles

• 2009-01-21:

• Tim Ferguson (via silicon.com) writes in BusinessWeek about the BBC's semantic web technology and its use of the MusicBrainz "open source 'metadatabase' " to enable its technology and reduce its licensing costs.

• 2008-09-15:

• Joseph Tartakoff of the San Francisco Chronicle talks to Robert Kaye about Picard Tagger as a competitor to Tune-Up.

• 2007-12-27:

• David Shamah of newsgeek.com, writing for The Jerusalem Post, talks about using MusicBrainz and Picard to tag unknown mp3s correctly.

• 2007-11-06:

• French magazine Numerama released a detailed article comparing existing Music Databases (Last.fm, Discogs, AllMusic, RateYourMusic, MusicBrainz, Wikipedia).

• 2005-06-07:

• Punto Informatico, an Italian "internet daily," has a detailed review of the Windows Tagger that also mentions the Picard Tagger. (In italiano)

• 2005-06-05:

• The Washington Post includes a short review of the Windows Tagger in their Personal Tech column. (Free registration required)

• 2005-04-19:

• Barrapunto, the "Spanish Slashdot," covers the MetaBrainz launch. (En español)

• 2005-04-19:

• Netzwelt.de covers the MetaBrainz launch (Auf Deutsch)

• 2005-03-21:

• The Wall Street Journal mentions MusicBrainz in an article on music metadata.

• 2004-08-24:

• Another French review of MusicBrainz in Micro Hebdo. (En Français)

• 2004-07-16:

• French computer magazine Clubic has an review of the MusicBrainzTagger as an alternative to MoodLogic. (En Français)

• 2004-07-13:

• French open-source software site Framasoft.net has a review of the MusicBrainzTagger. (En Français)

• 2004-07-06:

• Wired News has a puff piece on Gracenote quoting Robert Kaye's criticisms and mentioning MusicBrainz as an alternative.

• 2004-05-27:

• Barrapunto, the "Spanish Slashdot", has an item on the KDE mediaplayer JuK and its use of MusicBrainz. (En español)

• 2003-10-03:

• perl.com has an article about using MusicBrainz lookup functions in your perl scripts.

• 2003-07-21:

• Wired News has an article on Muse.net that mentions MusicBrainz.

• 2003-02-27:

• Wired News has an article on MusicBrainz following up on the launch.

• 2003-02-18:

• Russian magazine ??????????? (Computerra) has an article on MusicBrainz. (??????? Russian)

• 2003-02-12:

• Articles about the MusicBrainz launch appear in PC Magazine (Ziff Davis) and Slashdot, as well as German sites nickles.de and Pro-Linux.de. (Deutsch)

• 2002-12-01:

• IBM developerWorks has an article about MusicBrainz that focuses on the Metadata Initiative. (Japanese translation of article: ???)

• 2002-08-01:

• Entrepreneur Magazine's August issue covers the Semantic Web in the article 'Arguing Semantics' and mentions MusicBrainz as an example application. Entrepreneur Magazine, August 2002, pp. 19-20.

• 2002-02-12:

• View PDF Our own Aaron Swartz wrote an article: "MusicBrainz: A Semantic Web Service" for IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal, Jan-Feb 2002, pp. 76-77.

• 2001-11-10:

• Newsforge covers MusicBrainz in their Open Source alive and well at O'Reilly P2P conference article.

• 2001-05-24:

• C-NET News covers the Roxio suit and mentions MusicBrainz as one of the Gracenote alternatives.

• 2001-05-17:

• MusicBrainz is covered in a WebNoize article about Roxio and GraceNote. (Requires Webnoize subscription)

• 2001-05-02:

• The Napster/Relatable deal gets covered by the Washington Post -- includes a blurb about MusicBrainz.

• 2001-04-19:

• MusicBrainz is mentioned in a WebNoize article on the Relatable/Napster deal. (Requires Webnoize subscription)

• 2000-10-20:

• Wired News mentions MusicBrainz in their Taking Stock of the Music Scene article.

Press Releases

• 2005-04-19:

• Our second View PDF press release covers the launch of the MetaBrainz Foundation.

• 2003-02-11:

• MusicBrainz's first press release View PDF covers the official MusicBrainz launch and the related artist dataset that was contributed by Agent Arts.

• 2000-09-06:

• Relatable's press release announcing open source release of FreeAmp with MusicBrainz support.

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