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[-] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 92 points 4 months ago

This is by far the largest music metadata database that is publicly available. For comparison, we have 256 million tracks, while others have 50-150 million. Our data is well-annotated: MusicBrainz has 5 million unique ISRCs, while our database has 186 million.

Does this mean the MusicBrainz database will soon go from 5 million to 186 million tracks?

[-] xploit@lemmy.world 30 points 4 months ago

Asking the real questions here...

[-] exu@feditown.com 19 points 4 months ago

Probably not worth it to store the AI tracks

[-] zingo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That's exactly what I was wondering too.

Acquiring high quality music is already easy enough in most cases.

What I am interested in is the metadata. Accurate tagging of all my files is of high interest.

[-] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

If I ran mb, I would be cautious importing the data directly. I'm sure Spotify would consider it trade information and go after anyone directly using it. However if a few million people added the tracks with individual edits then it probably won't take too long.

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