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There is such a thing - a digital metadata standard called DDEX [0]. I worked in streaming classical music for a while (engineering/ops) and we had 100,000s of

There is such a thing - a digital metadata standard called DDEX [0]. I worked in streaming classical music for a while (engineering/ops) and we had 100,000s of large XML files to parse. They arrived with digital audio files and contained useful checksum data inside. All of the information regarding licensing, streaming rights, composer, movement, and almost every piece of data regarding a song/work was included. [0] https://ddex.net/ https://ddex.net/

wolverine876 5y ago
Awesome! Thank you! EDIT: Is there an established way to embed the metadata in the music file, rather than in a separate XML file?
- comprev 5y ago
  Unfortunately not that I'm aware of however the XML format has certainly helped normalise the metadata between distributors - alternative artist spelling is a good example. Numerous ways to spell Tchaikovsky!
  - wolverine876 5y ago
    Do you know if the metadata is available via a free, open resource? For others, here are some very interesting looking links I just found: * https://kb.ddex.net/display/HBK/Technical+Description+of+RIN https://kb.ddex.net/display/HBK/Technical+Description+of+RIN Recording Information Notification (RIN) standard, used by DDEX. See the samples at the bottom for a good sense of it. * https://jaxsta.com/ https://jaxsta.com/ Jaxsta is said to aggregate DDEX metadata, but I'm not sure what exactly that means or if it's publicly available. * https://www.sound.credit/ https://www.sound.credit/ Sound Credit calls itself "The Next Generation of Credits, Liner Notes, and Album Art" and seems marketed toward industry, but uses the RIN standard (and DDEX metadata?). Someplace said the metadata was freely available, but I don't see it in a brief look.
    - comprev 5y ago
      Not that I'm aware of. It's data that accompanies audio from publishers/distributors to ensure consistency across platforms. Perhaps with free audio but I can't really see a business reason to publish for free

wolverine876 5y ago

Awesome! Thank you! EDIT: Is there an established way to embed the metadata in the music file, rather than in a separate XML file?

comprev 5y ago
Unfortunately not that I'm aware of however the XML format has certainly helped normalise the metadata between distributors - alternative artist spelling is a good example. Numerous ways to spell Tchaikovsky!
- wolverine876 5y ago
  Do you know if the metadata is available via a free, open resource? For others, here are some very interesting looking links I just found: * https://kb.ddex.net/display/HBK/Technical+Description+of+RIN https://kb.ddex.net/display/HBK/Technical+Description+of+RIN Recording Information Notification (RIN) standard, used by DDEX. See the samples at the bottom for a good sense of it. * https://jaxsta.com/ https://jaxsta.com/ Jaxsta is said to aggregate DDEX metadata, but I'm not sure what exactly that means or if it's publicly available. * https://www.sound.credit/ https://www.sound.credit/ Sound Credit calls itself "The Next Generation of Credits, Liner Notes, and Album Art" and seems marketed toward industry, but uses the RIN standard (and DDEX metadata?). Someplace said the metadata was freely available, but I don't see it in a brief look.
  - comprev 5y ago
    Not that I'm aware of. It's data that accompanies audio from publishers/distributors to ensure consistency across platforms. Perhaps with free audio but I can't really see a business reason to publish for free