Open Content Music Database Launched

An anonymous reader writes "The open source music database MusicBrainz was launched officially today. The data is partly in the public domain, partly under an open content like license. It includes artist/album/track information, with more to come. There's support for CDDB-like CD identification (actually, a lot of the current data was imported from freedb), but also identification of single tracks via audio fingerprints (TRMs). Help both in adding new content by tagging your music collection and consolidating the existing data is welcome. Also check out some technical information on the XML database at IBM developerWorks."

Re:Weird

[Anonymous Coward]

slashdot is the only site you can access, and you failed to get first post?

Hehe

[EnderWiggin99]

Anyone else notice they're being hosted by CCCP? Seriously, they could've chosen a better moniker...

in the news

[lexcyber]

http://musicbrainz.org/ had to close their site only after one day of operation. They suffered a severe dos-attack known in the computer geek underground as "slashdotting". Goverment officials are very disturbed about this and action are beeing takeing to find the source of this attacks!

Re:Hehe

[StormyWeather]

Dear god just when we though we had killed the "In Soviet Russia" jokes...

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEAD HORSE beats YOU!

la~~

Illeagle=Un-american?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does "illeagle" mean un-American? I've always wondered. The "ill" seems to be a negative, and the "eagle" part must be refering to our national bird, the symbol of our nation.

Sound of a server dying

[Anonymous Coward]

The sound you hear is from an mp3 with the sound of a server dying.

Re:Incredibly well designed project

[Snoe]

Well I WAS indexing all of my mp3s (about 20gigs of albums) using their tagger and it was working very, very well. If something is misidentified it is very easy to spot and remedy.

Then, about 15 minutes ago I noticed the program was no longer speaking to their servers. Lo and behold, the story was put up on slashdot about 15 minutes ago. Not to sound paranoid or anything but I think this coincidence is a little creepy.

Re:What will the RIAA think?!?

[hackstraw]

AFAIK, the RIIA isn't opposed to you having information about the music that you own. They are just against you listening to the music that you own.

FTP

[mrpuffypants]

well, i'd be downloading the client, but the FTP server is saying that it's 10 spots are all full right now at 5AM.

c'mon now, this is Slashdot! Open 400,000 users on your FTP server, pay for all the bandwidth yourself, go bankrupt, then post your project on sourceforge =]

Re:Imagine an all-legal file sharing P2P network..

[Zwets]

"The RIAA _claim_ sharing their content hurts the bottom line, but imagine the damage caused when people learn they can find their own legal music..."

Yeah, it's about time there were alternatives to all that overpriced commercial music.

Let's create free, open-source versions of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys!