We at MetaBrainz recently released a new dataset, with the very catchy title of ‘MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata’. We posted a link to it on Hacker News and accompanied it with the bold claim that a user could now build their own custom music tagging application, without a lot of effort!
You might think we put our feet in our mouths, but the joke’s on you! Our feet taste GREAT! And also because mayhem has written a quick tutorial, that tells you exactly how to write your own tagger, in Python, using our new open dataset. The tutorial has three steps!? That seems like too few, but I haven’t tested it, so it’s probably fine. I hope someone’s tested it.
ANYWAY, new music dataset, you can use it to make cool things, it’s free for non-commercial users, there’s a tutorial on how to use it via the link at the top of this page. You can view all the MetaBrainz datasets at https://metabrainz.org/datasets
