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Wait so back in the day I remember Winamp let you configure a CDDB thing and it connected to something called.. Gracenote? (Am I remembering that correctly?) iT
by alexchantavy 1y ago
Wait so back in the day I remember Winamp let you configure a CDDB thing and it connected to something called.. Gracenote? (Am I remembering that correctly?) iTunes desktop at some point used to handle this all for you and I assumed it was pulling from those sources under the hood. Where did MusicBrainz come from?
- shermantanktop 1y agoGracenote is alive and well, and mostly supporting the video entertainment industry I think but with forays into adtech and other such schemes.
- CharlesW 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz ”MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD metadata (information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music.” More detail here: https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/771/papers/ieeeIntelligentSystems/webservices/musicBrainz.pdf https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/771/papers/ieeeIntelligentSystem...