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Blog items
2009
2009-11-27: Open Knowledge Foundation blog published an interview with Robert Kaye talking about origins of the project, reasons for choosing open licenses, the role of community and future of MusicBrainz.
2009-07-07: Tuxradar.com publishes a guide to organise your music with Picard.
2009-05-24: Jason Fitzpatrick of lifehacker.com nominates Picard as one of their Six Best MP3 Tagging Tools.
2009-04-16: Eliot van Buskirk of wired.com reports on MacroVision's purchase of Muze, discussing the effect this may have on support for open-source community metadata providers such as MusicBrainz.
2009-04-06: Jemima Kiss of The Guardian talks to BBC's Matthew Shorter on opening up BBC Music and its use and integration with MusicBrainz.
2009-02-18: Marc Hibbins talks about BBC's work on integrating and exposing semantic data (amongst others: MusicBrainz, Wikipedia), Linked_Data and points out the value of MusicBrainz unique identifers.
2008
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 and earlier
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: Creative Commons' 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
2009-11-16: Music search engine SEMSIX launches globally, powered in part by MusicBrainz.
2009-10-29: Wendy Hall & Nigel Shadbolt write about MusicBrainz in the context of the web of linked data.
2009-08-29: Gavin Stuart of geeks.co.uk talks with Robert Kaye about MusicBrainz, the forthcoming schema release and the philosophy of MB.
2009-07-02: Geoffrey A. Fowler of the Wall Street Journal reviews Picard and compares it to the commercial TuneUp application.
2009-05-25: An article at Spanish technology portal VNUNET talks about using Picard to edit MP3 metadata. (En español)
2009-04-21: Karl Hodge of Tech Radar recommends using Picard Tagger in his guide to cleaning up your iTunes library.
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 and earlier
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.