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[[MusicBrainz]] is not unique as a database of music information. For a comprehensive list, see [[wikipedia:List_of_online_music_databases|wikipedia]]. This page lists some and indicates if crosslinking is possible.
=Other Databases of Music Metadata and Information=


For an exhaustive list of databases that can be linked to from [[MusicBrainz Entity|entities]] see the [[Other_Databases_Relationship_Type/Whitelist|whitelist]].<span style="float:both;">__TOC__</span>
[[MusicBrainz]] is not unique as a database of music information. There are at least the following others:
== General Purpose ==
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">''This list is long and unwieldy. I've tried to break it up into roughly similar sites, but the groups need to be labeled by general category (cf. [[Intelligent Playlist Generation|IntelligentPlaylistGeneration]]) and license for their data (GPL, [[Creative Commons|CreativeCommons]], proprietary, etc.).'' [[User:Dupuy|@alex]]
</ul>


{| class="wikitable sortable" width="80%"
===Open Data===
|-
!Site
!Description/Notes
!width=75px|Access
!License
!Advanced Relationship
|-
|[[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]]
|Wiki-based free general interest encyclopedia
|Free
|Creative Commons
|[[Link Wikipedia And MusicBrainz|Yes]]
|-
|[https://www.discogs.com/ Discogs]
|Commercial site, switched to a public domain license for its data in early 2008
|Free
|Public Domain
|[[rt:04a5b104-a4c2-4bac-99a1-7b837c37d9e4|artists]], [[rt:99e550f3-5ab4-3110-b5b9-fe01d970b126|release groups]], [[rt:4a78823c-1c53-4176-a5f3-58026c76f2bc|releases]], [[rt:5b987f87-25bc-4a2d-b3f1-3618795b8207|labels]]
|-
|[https://musicmoz.org/ MusicMoz]
|Directory of all things music, edited by volunteers. Imports data from MusicBrainz.
|Free
|[https://musicmoz.org/xml/license.html Link]
|[[MusicMoz Relationship Type|Yes]]
|-
|[https://www.allmusic.com/ Allmusic]
|Commercial site. Part of content is freely available.
|Free
|Proprietary
|[[rt:6b3e3c85-0002-4f34-aca6-80ace0d7e846|artists]], [[rt:a50a1d20-2b20-4d2c-9a29-eb771dd78386|release groups]], [[rt:54482490-5ff1-4b1c-9382-b4d0ef8e0eac|recordings]], [[rt:ca9c9f46-11bd-423a-b134-9109cbebe9d7|works]]
|-
|[https://rateyourmusic.com/ Rate Your Music]
|Metadata database build around ratings and reviews. Good genre and location/date data. (RYM)
|Free
|Proprietary
|No
|-
|[http://amazon.com Amazon]
|Often has incorrect release dates, doesn't always mark imports as such*
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.worldcat.org/ WorldCat]
|International network of library holdings
|Free
|[https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/ext-ref/worldcat-org/terms.html Link]
|[[Other_Databases_Relationship_Type|Yes]]
|-
|[https://openlibrary.org/ Open Library]
|Internet Archive's project for books and audiobooks
|Free
|[https://openlibrary.org/developers/licensing Link]
|[[Other_Databases_Relationship_Type|Yes]]
|-
|[http://www.gnudb.org/ gnudb.org]
|CDDB/free.db successor
|Free
|[https://gnudb.org/privacy.php Link]
|No
|-
|[http://opencdindex.com/ Open CD Index]
|CDDB/free.db successor
|Free
|GPL
|No
|-
|[http://www.cdarchiv.de CDArchiv]
|CDDB/free.db successor (in German), supports the Hitbase application
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[[wikipedia:Sound Credit|Sound Credit]]
|Music credits platform for capturing metadata in DDEX RIN format. Provides an [https://sound.credit/home online database].
|Free
|Proprietary
|No
|-
|[http://viaf.org/ VIAF]
|Links person name entries of national libraries. Should contain everyone that has released a work.
|Free
|
|
|-
|[https://jaxsta.com/ Jaxsta]
|Aggregator of content-owner supplied music data via DDEX. Free tier allows 5 searches/month.
|Paid
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.getdigitaldata.com/GD3.aspx GD3]
|Commercial CD/DVD metadata lookup site
|Paid
|Proprietary
|No
|-
|[[Gracenote]]
|Commercial site. Inspired MusicBrainz to form, by stealing public data. (formerly CDDB)
|Paid
|Proprietary
|No
|}


== Thematic ==
Free as in [[Free Documentatin License|FreeDocumentatinLicense]] or [[Creative Commons|CreativeCommons]].
* [[Wikipedia|WikiPedia]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.wikipedia.org/ http://www.wikipedia.org/] - ''It's possible to [[Link Wikipedia And MusicBrainz|LinkWikipediaAndMusicBrainz]]. See also [[Wikipedia And MusicBrainz|WikipediaAndMusicBrainz]].''
</ul>
* [[FreeDB]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.freedb.org/ http://www.freedb.org/] - ''[[MusicBrainz]] supports importing [[FreeDB]] data''
</ul>
* [[AudioScrobbler]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://audioscrobbler.com/ http://audioscrobbler.com/] - ''currently uses [[MusicBrainz]] data''
</ul>
* [[MusicMoz]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.musicmoz.org/ http://www.musicmoz.org/] - ''imports data from [[MusicBrainz]]''
</ul>
* [[Open Directory|OpenDirectory]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/ http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Bands_and_Artists/] - ''also lists other directories at [http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Directories/ http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Directories/]''
</ul>


{| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
===Data available at no cost===
|-
!Site
!Description/Notes
!width=75px|Access
!License
!Advanced Relationship
|-
|[http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/ SoundtrackCollector]
|Database of movie soundtracks
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://vgmdb.net/ VGMdb]
|Database of videogame music
|Free
|
|[[rt:0af15ab3-c615-46d6-b95b-a5fcd2a92ed9|artists]], [[rt:8a2d3e55-d291-4b99-87a0-c59c6b121762|labels]], [[rt:6af0134a-df6a-425a-96e2-895f9cd342ba|releases]]
|-
|[https://www.metal-archives.com/ Encyclopaedia Metallum]
|Database of heavy metal (and related) music (aka The Metal Archives)
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[http://www.sa-cd.net/ SA-CD.net]
|Database of Super Audio CDs
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[http://www.45cat.com/ 45cat]
|Database of 7" vinyl
|Free
|
|[[Other_Databases_Relationship_Type|Yes]]
|-
|[https://www.lddb.com/ LaserDisc Database]
|Database cataloging all LaserDiscs. Also has HD DVD, CED, VHD and D-VHS releases.
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[http://www.songtitle.info/ Songtitle.info]
|Database of US television advert music
|
|
|
|-
|[http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/ Encyclopédisque]
|Database of French 7" vinyl
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.soundamental.org/ Soundamental]
|Database of French singles and albums. Has [[Release_Catalog_Number|catnos]] and [[Barcode|barcodes]].
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://samplerinfos.de/ SamplerInfos]
|Database of German samplers and compilations
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.pmdb.org.taipei/ 臺灣流行音樂資料庫]
|Database of Taiwan popular music
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[http://www.allmusic.hu/ allmusic.hu]
|Database of Hungarian music
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.muzic.net.nz/ muzic.net.nz]
|Database of New Zealand music
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.audioculture.co.nz/ AudioCulture]
|Database of New Zealand music (focused on biographies and pictorials)
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[http://www.liederenbank.nl/ Nederlandse Liederenbank]
|Database of Dutch music''.'' Source for origin of (old) works. [[jira:STYLE-762|Crosslinking requested]].
|Free
|
|No
|}


== Covers ==
Free as in "Free beer, if you drink it in my bar".
* [[All Music Guide|AllMusicGuide]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.allmusic.com/ http://www.allmusic.com/] - ''commercial site. Part of content is freely available.''
</ul>
* Discogs:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.discogs.com/ http://www.discogs.com/] - ''commercial site, though part of it is free; unlikely to want to share all of its data, it may be willing to share a subset'' -- Anonymous Coward
</ul>
* GnoD:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.gnod.net/ http://www.gnod.net/] - ''nifty little engine that deals with relating artists to each other; the database doesn't appear to be publicly available, but the service is free and in a very usable state''
</ul>
* [[Web Music Database|WebMusicDatabase]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.webmusicdb.com/ http://www.webmusicdb.com/]
</ul>
* Music City:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.music-city.org/ http://www.music-city.org/] - ''"Collaborative" music and artists DB. Has content from Amazon and no copyright statement (see also [http://www.music-city.org/forum.php?thread=3 thread in their forum]). Beta. Does not seem to be very active as of June 2005.''
</ul>


{| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
===Proprietary===
|-
!Site
!Description/Notes
!width=75px|Access
!License
!Advanced Relationship
|-
|[http://www.coversproject.com/ The Covers Project]
|Database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer). Uses MusicBrainz data.
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.secondhandsongs.com Second Hand Songs]
|Database of cover songs containing artists, songs and covers (80K originals, 640K cover songs and 3166 songs with samples - 2018-10-27)
|Free
|
|[[rt:79c5b84d-a206-4f4c-9832-78c028c312c3|artists]], [[rt:0e555925-1b7d-475c-9b25-b9c349dcc3f3|releases]], [[rt:b80dff64-9560-445a-b824-c8b432d77a52|works]]
|-
|[https://cover.info/ coverinfo.de]
|Database that lists more than 50K cover songs and samples. Interface in German, but there is also a English user guide.
|Free
|
|No
|-
|[https://www.whosampled.com/ WhoSampled]
|Database of samples, covers and interpolations
|
|
|[[Other_Databases_Relationship_Type|Yes]]
|}


== Classical ==
* [[Mood Logic|MoodLogic]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.moodlogic.com/ http://www.moodlogic.com/] - ''proprietary, fingerprint based. mood and genre matching''
</ul>
* Predixis [[MusicMagic]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://music.predixis.com/ http://music.predixis.com/] - ''proprietary, fingerprint based; automatically analyzes music files to create lists of similar songs, artists and albums''
</ul>
* [[Fix Tunes|FixTunes]]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">[http://www.fixtunes.com/index.php http://www.fixtunes.com/index.php] - ''proprietary, analyzes MP3s and corrects tags''
</ul>


{| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
----
|-
!Site
!Description/Notes
!width=75px|Access
!License
!Advanced Relationship
|-
|[https://imslp.org/ International Music Score Library Project]
|Holds the [http://imslp.org/wiki/ Petrucci Music Library], an internet-based collaborative music score library (IMSLP)
|Free
|Public Domain
|Yes (as "[[rt:0cc8527e-ea40-40dd-b144-3b7588e759bf|has score]]")
|-
|[https://musopen.org/ MusOpen]
|Online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. Offers free music and sheet music downloads.
|Free
|Public Domain
|No
|}


== Open Data ==
===Others===


{| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
The following is still unsorted
|-
* Echo Cloud: [http://www.echocloud.net/ http://www.echocloud.net/] '''[not working]''' - ''database of related artists (if you like xxx then you might like yyy) based on crawling P2P networks''
!Site
* Music Plasma: [http://www.musicplasma.com/ http://www.musicplasma.com/] - ''very pretty related artist mapping database with audio clips; very little documentation so not sure where their data comes from''
!Description/Notes
* UPC Database: [http://www.upcdatabase.com/ http://www.upcdatabase.com/] - ''database of [[Barcode|BarCode]]s including music CDs (as well as DVDs, nappies and other assorted goods)''
! width="75px" |Access
* The Covers Project: [http://www.coversproject.com/ http://www.coversproject.com/] - ''building a database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer)''
!License
* Cover Songs Database: [http://slicks.ulyssis.org/coverdb/ http://slicks.ulyssis.org/coverdb/] - ''similar to above, but also tracks usage in samples''
!Advanced Relationship
* coverinfo.de: [http://www.coverinfo.de/index.php?page=lang http://www.coverinfo.de/index.php?page=lang] - ''large database that lists more than 50000 cover songs and samples, main site and interface in German, but there is also an user guide in English''
|-
* [[BPM Data Base|BPMDataBase]]: [http://www.bpmdatabase.com/ http://www.bpmdatabase.com/] - ''database of dance music tracks with their bpm for DJs''
* Wolf's Kompaktkiste: [http://www.kompaktkiste.de/ http://www.kompaktkiste.de/]
|[http://www.last.fm/ Last.fm]
|Currently uses [[MusicBrainz]] data (?)
* The Free Track Info Xchange: [http://www.threetix.net http://www.threetix.net] - ''works with the Microsoft Deluxe CD Player, and also has a "universal" data converter (PLC)''
|Free
* CDArchiv: [http://www.cdarchiv.de http://www.cdarchiv.de] - ''German site, database supports the Hitbase application''
|
* Music Recommender: [http://recommender.ipsi.fhg.de/music/cds.aspx http://recommender.ipsi.fhg.de/music/cds.aspx] - ''database of related CDs (if you like xxx then you might like yyy) based on crawling music playlists''
|
** sorry, description is in German:
|-
*** Just type in an artist you like and press enter (e.g. “art bla” for “Art Blakey”, who does relaxed jazz music) --> Result: every CD which starts with "art bla" is displayed
|[https://curlie.org/en/Arts/Music Curlie]
*** Select a CD out of the given list and enjoy our similarities (by clicking a headphone-icon you will be forwarded to amazon.de)
|Open Directory, also lists other directories [https://curlie.org/en/Arts/Music/Directories/ here]
|Free
|
|No
|}


== 'Free' Data ==
* [[Gracenote]] (formerly [[CDDB]]) - ''who inspired us to start by stealing all the public data''


Free as in "Free beer, if you drink it in my bar".
(please add any more you know of)
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="90%"
|-
!Site
!Description/Notes
! width="75px" |Access
!License
!Advanced Relationship
|-
|[http://www.gnod.net/ GnoD]
|Engine that relates artists to each other; the database doesn't appear to be publicly available
|Free
|
|}


== Other ==
----
*[https://www.upcdatabase.com/ UPC Database]: ''Database of [[Barcode]]s including music CDs (as well as DVDs, nappies and other assorted goods).''
*[http://www.bpmdatabase.com/ BPMDataBase]: D''atabase of dance music tracks with their bpm for DJs'' - Slowly dying in 2008 due to spam submissions and no non-spam submissions.
*[https://www.kompaktkiste.de/ Wolf's Kompaktkiste]: ''A personal database of Wolf's CD and record collection, with scans. Largely electronic, with jazz other genres as well.''


(please add any more you know of)

The above are all general purpose music databases that we have considered working with (well, not Gracenote!). There are probably hundreds of specialist ones like:
* [[Christian Music Place|ChristianMusicPlace]]: [http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/ http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/]


==Defunct Databases==
Examples of a more tightly-focused database that is crying out to be built on top of a [[MusicBrainz]] foundation:
* Sample FAQ: [http://the-breaks.com/ http://the-breaks.com/] - ''tells you "who sampled what from who", irregularly updated and with a hand-tooled vibe but very interesting''
* Commercial Breaks & Beats: [http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/ http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/] - ''UK television advert music database''
* Songtitle.info: [http://www.songtitle.info/ http://www.songtitle.info/] - ''US television advert music database''
* Some random guy's CD collection: [http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/h-son/cd/info.html http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/h-son/cd/info.html]


* [http://www.echocloud.net/ Echo Cloud]: D''atabase of related artists (if you like xxx then you might like yyy) based on crawling P2P networks'' - Down as of 2008-03
I think a certain type of person would love to have their CD collection info on the web, all nicely hyperlinked and with daft statistics. Maybe listing recent additions to the collection on their weblog like people list books they're currently reading or what they're currently listening to in iTunes.
* [http://slicks.ulyssis.org/coverdb/ Cover Songs Database]: S''imilar to above, but also tracks usage in samples'' - Down as of 5/24/07
* [http://recommender.ipsi.fhg.de/music/cds.aspx Music Recommender]: D''atabase of related CDs (if you like xxx then you might like yyy) based on crawling music playlists -'' Down as of 2008-03
* [http://www.moodlogic.com/ MoodLogic]: P''roprietary, fingerprint based mood and genre matching'' "Effective March 3, 2008, Macrovision announces the end of life (EOL) of the Moodlogic..."
* [[Music Match|MusicMatch]]: ''Database taken offline in September, 2007, when Yahoo! aquired them. Yahoo! has since discontinued the [[Music Match|MusicMatch]] software and database completely.''
* [http://www.music-city.org/ Music City]:''"Collaborative" music and artists DB. Has content from Amazon and no copyright statement (see also [http://www.music-city.org/forum.php?thread=3 thread in their forum]). Beta.'' - Inactive as of 2005-06
* [http://www.christianmusic.org/cmp/artists/ ChristianMusicPlace]: ''Christian music site''
* [http://www.threetix.net The Free Track Info Xchange]: ''Works with the Microsoft Deluxe CD Player, and also has a "universal" data converter (PLC)''
* Daz.com: ''Seems to mainly source data from freedb''
* [http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/ Commercial Breaks & Beats]: ''UK television advert music database''
* [http://www.tracktype.org/ TrackType.org]: ''Formerly freedb2.org''
* [http://www.webmusicdb.com/ Web Music Database]:
* FreeDB: ''Successor to CDDB, redirects to [https://gnudb.org/ gnudb.org] since 2020''
* Metamuse: ''Database of cover songs and remixes -'' Possibly offline as of 2018-10
* [http://english.digibit.es/products/sonata-db/ SonataDB]: ''Commercial database for classical music'' - Seems to be offline as of 2023-01
* [http://www.musicplasma.com/ Music Plasma]: V''ery pretty related artist mapping database with audio clips; very little documentation so not sure where their data comes from'' - Seems to be offline as of 2023-01
* [http://the-breaks.com/ Sample FAQ]: ''Tells you "who sampled what from who", irregularly updated and with a hand-tooled vibe but very interesting'' - Seems to be offline as of 2023-01


==See also==
----
*[[Other Databases Relationship Type/Whitelist]]
*[[Wikipedia:List of online music databases|List of online music databases on Wikipedia]]
*[[User:Colbydray/NonEnglishReleaseDatabases]]




<nowiki>*</nowiki>
The main site currently has a [http://www.musicbrainz.org/engine.html Search Links] page that links to the main pages and search features of some of the databases listed above, as well as others; it's pretty obscure (hidden in a second level [[Site Menu|SiteMenu]] entry), out-of-date (doesn't include recent additions like [[MusicMoz]]), and broken (www.allmusic.com search doesn't work). It does, however, include a number of links to lyrics sites, which might be problematic if [[MusicBrainz]] could be considered to be a contributor by linking to sites that infringe the copyrights on lyrics.


About amazon's [Import] label not being 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
It is in this context that we should consider the comment that [http://lyrictracker.com http://lyrictracker.com] is missing (from the list above, as well as the [[Search Links|SearchLinks]] page), and the following note from somebody associated with [http://www.songtexts.net http://www.songtexts.net]:
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">I've got a Lyrics Database available with XML streams right now. Do you think it might be something for the future to add these pages to [[MusicBrainz]]. It's possible to look up certain lyrics from an artist? I'd be interested in working with you guys in the future.
</ul>


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.
[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:External]]
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Latest revision as of 07:50, 15 January 2023

MusicBrainz is not unique as a database of music information. For a comprehensive list, see wikipedia. This page lists some and indicates if crosslinking is possible.

For an exhaustive list of databases that can be linked to from entities see the whitelist.

General Purpose

Site Description/Notes Access License Advanced Relationship
Wikipedia Wiki-based free general interest encyclopedia Free Creative Commons Yes
Discogs Commercial site, switched to a public domain license for its data in early 2008 Free Public Domain artists, release groups, releases, labels
MusicMoz Directory of all things music, edited by volunteers. Imports data from MusicBrainz. Free Link Yes
Allmusic Commercial site. Part of content is freely available. Free Proprietary artists, release groups, recordings, works
Rate Your Music Metadata database build around ratings and reviews. Good genre and location/date data. (RYM) Free Proprietary No
Amazon Often has incorrect release dates, doesn't always mark imports as such* Free No
WorldCat International network of library holdings Free Link Yes
Open Library Internet Archive's project for books and audiobooks Free Link Yes
gnudb.org CDDB/free.db successor Free Link No
Open CD Index CDDB/free.db successor Free GPL No
CDArchiv CDDB/free.db successor (in German), supports the Hitbase application Free No
Sound Credit Music credits platform for capturing metadata in DDEX RIN format. Provides an online database. Free Proprietary No
VIAF Links person name entries of national libraries. Should contain everyone that has released a work. Free
Jaxsta Aggregator of content-owner supplied music data via DDEX. Free tier allows 5 searches/month. Paid No
GD3 Commercial CD/DVD metadata lookup site Paid Proprietary No
Gracenote Commercial site. Inspired MusicBrainz to form, by stealing public data. (formerly CDDB) Paid Proprietary No

Thematic

Site Description/Notes Access License Advanced Relationship
SoundtrackCollector Database of movie soundtracks Free No
VGMdb Database of videogame music Free artists, labels, releases
Encyclopaedia Metallum Database of heavy metal (and related) music (aka The Metal Archives) Free No
SA-CD.net Database of Super Audio CDs Free No
45cat Database of 7" vinyl Free Yes
LaserDisc Database Database cataloging all LaserDiscs. Also has HD DVD, CED, VHD and D-VHS releases. Free No
Songtitle.info Database of US television advert music
Encyclopédisque Database of French 7" vinyl Free No
Soundamental Database of French singles and albums. Has catnos and barcodes. Free No
SamplerInfos Database of German samplers and compilations Free No
臺灣流行音樂資料庫 Database of Taiwan popular music Free No
allmusic.hu Database of Hungarian music Free No
muzic.net.nz Database of New Zealand music Free No
AudioCulture Database of New Zealand music (focused on biographies and pictorials) Free No
Nederlandse Liederenbank Database of Dutch music. Source for origin of (old) works. Crosslinking requested. Free No

Covers

Site Description/Notes Access License Advanced Relationship
The Covers Project Database of cover songs (songs performed by an artist other than the original performer). Uses MusicBrainz data. Free No
Second Hand Songs Database of cover songs containing artists, songs and covers (80K originals, 640K cover songs and 3166 songs with samples - 2018-10-27) Free artists, releases, works
coverinfo.de Database that lists more than 50K cover songs and samples. Interface in German, but there is also a English user guide. Free No
WhoSampled Database of samples, covers and interpolations Yes

Classical

Site Description/Notes Access License Advanced Relationship
International Music Score Library Project Holds the Petrucci Music Library, an internet-based collaborative music score library (IMSLP) Free Public Domain Yes (as "has score")
MusOpen Online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. Offers free music and sheet music downloads. Free Public Domain No

Open Data

Site Description/Notes Access License Advanced Relationship
Last.fm Currently uses MusicBrainz data (?) Free
Curlie Open Directory, also lists other directories here Free No

'Free' Data

Free as in "Free beer, if you drink it in my bar".

Site Description/Notes Access License Advanced Relationship
GnoD Engine that relates artists to each other; the database doesn't appear to be publicly available Free

Other

  • UPC Database: Database of Barcodes including music CDs (as well as DVDs, nappies and other assorted goods).
  • BPMDataBase: Database of dance music tracks with their bpm for DJs - Slowly dying in 2008 due to spam submissions and no non-spam submissions.
  • Wolf's Kompaktkiste: A personal database of Wolf's CD and record collection, with scans. Largely electronic, with jazz other genres as well.

(please add any more you know of)

Defunct Databases

  • Echo Cloud: Database of related artists (if you like xxx then you might like yyy) based on crawling P2P networks - Down as of 2008-03
  • Cover Songs Database: Similar to above, but also tracks usage in samples - Down as of 5/24/07
  • Music Recommender: Database of related CDs (if you like xxx then you might like yyy) based on crawling music playlists - Down as of 2008-03
  • MoodLogic: Proprietary, fingerprint based mood and genre matching "Effective March 3, 2008, Macrovision announces the end of life (EOL) of the Moodlogic..."
  • MusicMatch: Database taken offline in September, 2007, when Yahoo! aquired them. Yahoo! has since discontinued the MusicMatch software and database completely.
  • Music City:"Collaborative" music and artists DB. Has content from Amazon and no copyright statement (see also thread in their forum). Beta. - Inactive as of 2005-06
  • ChristianMusicPlace: Christian music site
  • The Free Track Info Xchange: Works with the Microsoft Deluxe CD Player, and also has a "universal" data converter (PLC)
  • Daz.com: Seems to mainly source data from freedb
  • Commercial Breaks & Beats: UK television advert music database
  • TrackType.org: Formerly freedb2.org
  • Web Music Database:
  • FreeDB: Successor to CDDB, redirects to gnudb.org since 2020
  • Metamuse: Database of cover songs and remixes - Possibly offline as of 2018-10
  • SonataDB: Commercial database for classical music - Seems to be offline as of 2023-01
  • Music Plasma: Very pretty related artist mapping database with audio clips; very little documentation so not sure where their data comes from - Seems to be offline as of 2023-01
  • Sample FAQ: Tells you "who sampled what from who", irregularly updated and with a hand-tooled vibe but very interesting - Seems to be offline as of 2023-01

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About amazon's [Import] label not being 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.