I thought MusicBrainz had great potential in this area, as a common and open database of artists/albums/tracks - and Spotify used to have support in their API t

I thought MusicBrainz had great potential in this area, as a common and open database of artists/albums/tracks - and Spotify used to have support in their API to search based on some of those. http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3463 http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3463 Ultimately unless someone uses MB and/or other data sources to create an aggregated 'music translation' service - whether it's entirely offline translation, translation-on-demand, or some kind of mix - I'm not sure how this is going to happen with so many proprietary platforms.