CD Baby integrates some MusicBrainz data

Derek Sivers, the owner of CD Baby and a general MusicBrainz fan has recently integrated a sounds-like feature into CD Baby that uses MusicBrainz data. Derek says: Cooooooooooool! http://cdbaby.com/found?soundlike= 678d88b2-87b0-403b-b63d-5da7465aecc3 http://cdbaby.com/found?soundlike= 87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb and thanks to your wonderful aliases: http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=biggie … will pull up The Notorious B.I.G., etc. This feature allows CD Baby users to search … Continue reading “CD Baby integrates some MusicBrainz data”

Derek Sivers, the owner of CD Baby and a general MusicBrainz fan has recently integrated a sounds-like feature into CD Baby that uses MusicBrainz data. Derek says:

Cooooooooooool!

http://cdbaby.com/found?soundlike= 678d88b2-87b0-403b-b63d-5da7465aecc3

http://cdbaby.com/found?soundlike= 87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb

and thanks to your wonderful aliases:

http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=biggie

… will pull up The Notorious B.I.G., etc.

This feature allows CD Baby users to search for CD Baby artists who sound like similar artists that might be cataloged in MusicBrainz. This feature also cross references MusicBrainz artist aliases for an even greater effect: If a CD Baby artist says they sound like “The Notorious B.I.G.” and a customer searches for “biggie”, they will find this artist.

Very nice work Derek!

CotM – Phoenix Rises again!

Renamed and Renewed the CotM, now dubbed “Cleanup of the Month” has been resurrected and given a new header, this time It is Ennio Morricone, everybodies favourite Spaghetti-western composer. How can I help? * if you have any Ennio Morricone releases, please add them, and or their TOC to the database, update the label info … Continue reading “CotM – Phoenix Rises again!”

Renamed and Renewed the CotM, now dubbed “Cleanup of the Month”
has been resurrected and given a new header, this time It is Ennio Morricone, everybodies favourite Spaghetti-western composer.

How can I help?

* if you have any Ennio Morricone releases, please add them, and or their TOC to the database, update the label info
* if you got some spare time, lookup some links for us to use and add them to the Ennio Morricone CotM sub-page
* try to get anyone possibly interested in doing some editing in this area to join, we can’t do this community effort without the community!

good luck and happy editing!

MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz Talk at Queen Mary University

I recently gave a presentation about MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz to the Queen Mary University in London. The talk was billed as: “MusicBrainz: Tearing Down Walled Gardens in the Music Industry” If you’re curious about the beginnings of MusicBrainz, my sugar mama or how MusicBrainz and its IDs hopes to change the world, you may want to watch … Continue reading “MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz Talk at Queen Mary University”

I recently gave a presentation about MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz to the Queen Mary University in London. The talk was billed as:

“MusicBrainz: Tearing Down Walled Gardens in the Music Industry”

If you’re curious about the beginnings of MusicBrainz, my sugar mama or how MusicBrainz and its IDs hopes to change the world, you may want to watch the video stream of my presentation.

Thanks to Steve Welburn for inviting me!

Collaboration of the Month: Bob Marley and/or The Wailers

First a little about the history of CotM for those who don’t know what it is: Some time ago, a bunch of us got together and thought that it would be a good idea to have a “Collaboration of the Month”, a collaborative effort to clean up one (1) artist each month. [mdhowe] was the … Continue reading “Collaboration of the Month: Bob Marley and/or The Wailers”

First a little about the history of CotM for those who don’t know what it is:

Some time ago, a bunch of us got together and thought that it would be a good idea to have a “Collaboration of the Month”, a collaborative effort to clean up one (1) artist each month. [mdhowe] was the chef idea champion then and soon both a wikipage and a forum post where created.
The first (and very successfull one at that) CotM was “The Beatles”
It got cleaned up real good (should probably have its quality setting set to high, actually..)
Next up was the Dire Straits, got a decent overhaul, but however something went wrong with the election of a new artist for CotM, and DS sorta dragged its ass and ended up staying on the page for over two months.

The Bob Marley Collab (Cleanup?) of the Month

Basically I, (mo) took over as “leader” of this project and as such elected the next big mess, which on the list was Bob Marley and or The Wailers.

A bit late in the month I’m sure, but please head over to The Wailers, Bob Marley and The Wailers and Bob Marley himself and help clean it up. It’ll probably need more time than over this month, but that’s ok too πŸ™‚

Don’t be afraid if you don’t find anything to do, just adding correct ASINs or even just *voting* is help, you can also help by documenting good links for others in the wikipage.
Do you own any Bob Marley etc. releases? please add TOCs and label info πŸ™‚

* Wikipedia pages: [Bob Marley] [Wailers] [discography]
* CotM:BM page with more links.

A little about the name “Collaboration of the Month”

It has also be contested that perhaps Collaboration of the Month is BadTerminology.
Therefor, after that discussion, I set up a votable string for either “keep as is”, “change to ‘Cleanup of the Month'” or “other” on the [main CotM-page]: if you’ve got some time and an opinionated soul, head on over and vote πŸ™‚

In closing:

Thanks for now, and sorry for the delay. I’ll be making these posts regularly whenever we’ve decided the collab(cleanup) has been sufficiently finished and a new one picked (either by consensus of vote, or by me (as we didn’t have enough people for a vote previously)
Finally please add your pet peeve or idea to the list and or vote for what month you’d like ’em in.
Freso already said June would be great for “The Dubliners” and (unless someone can come up with why not) I see no reason not to continue with that after Bob and his cats. Thank you.

~mo πŸ˜€

Creative Commons license for MusicBrainz Wiki

Previously we had not set a license for text/data in our Wiki. In order to make things explicit dmppanda has added a new MusicBrainzWikiLicense page that explictly sets the license to be the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. This makes the content in our wiki consistent with the data in our database. If you have … Continue reading “Creative Commons license for MusicBrainz Wiki”

Previously we had not set a license for text/data in our Wiki. In order to make things explicit dmppanda has added a new MusicBrainzWikiLicense page that explictly sets the license to be the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license. This makes the content in our wiki consistent with the data in our database.

If you have contributed to the Wiki and object to this license being set, please Contact Us and we will work out the conflict.

Google Summer of Code deadline extended

Just a quick note: The Google Summer of Code student application deadline has been extended to March 26th! This gives you a little more time to get your proposals in. If you’re interested, take a look at our ideas page. So far, only 2 of the 6 proposals we have received are under any kind … Continue reading “Google Summer of Code deadline extended”

Just a quick note: The Google Summer of Code student application deadline has been extended to March 26th! This gives you a little more time to get your proposals in. If you’re interested, take a look at our ideas page.

So far, only 2 of the 6 proposals we have received are under any kind of serious consideration.

Google Summer of Code

MusicBrainz has applied to be a mentoring organization for Google’s Summer of Code project. Google will actually pay students to spend their summer hacking on open source projects and I’m hoping that some students who are excited by MusicBrainz will apply to this project and spend their summer improving MusicBrainz. If you’re a student and … Continue reading “Google Summer of Code”

MusicBrainz has applied to be a mentoring organization for Google’s Summer of Code project. Google will actually pay students to spend their summer hacking on open source projects and I’m hoping that some students who are excited by MusicBrainz will apply to this project and spend their summer improving MusicBrainz.

If you’re a student and are interested in this, check out the link above and read up on the project. Then take a look at SummerOfCodeIdeas for some of the projects that I think could be done in the scope of Summer of Code.

They will begin taking student applications starting today and the window to apply isn’t terribly large, I think. So, if you’re interested, don’t dawdle and get your application in ASAP.

Post questions in the comments if you have them!

Headed to SXSW?

I’m leaving for SXSW in Austin in a few minutes. Are you going? If so, if you care to meet up and have a coffee/beer, please post a comment below and I’ll get in touch and arrange for a time to meet up.

I’m leaving for SXSW in Austin in a few minutes. Are you going? If so, if you care to meet up and have a coffee/beer, please post a comment below and I’ll get in touch and arrange for a time to meet up.

Collaboration of the Month: Dire Straits

The current Collaboration of the Month is Dire Straits, please give up some of your MB time to help tidy-up this artist’s discography. A list resources and things that need to be done are at this wiki page and you can discuss specific issues on this forum topic. We are also trying to come up … Continue reading “Collaboration of the Month: Dire Straits”

The current Collaboration of the Month is Dire Straits, please give up some of your MB time to help tidy-up this artist’s discography. A list resources and things that need to be done are at this wiki page and you can discuss specific issues on this forum topic.

We are also trying to come up with a better name for the project, one that won’t cause confusion with other uses of the term “collaboration” in MusicBrainz. If you have any ideas, please voice them here.

Collaboration of the Month

Collaboration of the Month is a month long, group effort at cleaning up a well-known artists MusicBrainz entry. The first subject is The Beatles. You don’t need to know a lot about the artist to help out, just make sure you do your research and enter edit notes. It’s a great way to learn about … Continue reading “Collaboration of the Month”

Collaboration of the Month is a month long, group effort at cleaning up a well-known artists MusicBrainz entry. The first subject is The Beatles.

You don’t need to know a lot about the artist to help out, just make sure you do your research and enter edit notes. It’s a great way to learn about more about an artist. Impress your friends with your in-depth knowledge of The Beatles Mexican promo singles!

Resources can be listed on the wiki page and problems can be discussed in the forum topic.