Well, look at that. The folks at MusicIP got a nice blurb from Cory at BoingBoing. This, as well as the coverage at DigitalMediaWire, was nice to see given the tons of hard work happening at MusicIP.
If you are building music applications, like open source stuff, you will find the open fingerprint services and access to millions of song identifications, of interest.
Essentially, MusicIP teamed up with MusicBrainz and the results of all the effort is a website hosting musicdns.org.
"MusicDNS (Music Digital Naming Service) offers a simple and cost-effective method for identifying digital music and acquiring metadata. As the largest fingerprint-based music database in the world, MusicDNS is quickly becoming a standard for the global identification of digital music."
You can get a full data sheet on the full service here. The big deal is that if you are building something for yourself, have a small number of users, there are services that are free.
Congrats to the MusicIP team.
Disclosure: I am the board chair, have an investment in the company, and drink three gallons of MusicIP daily.
Is that much MusicIP good for you Rick :)
Posted by: Pat Phelan | January 12, 2007 at 14:48
Hi Pat,
It's sugar-free! :-)
Posted by: Rick Segal | January 12, 2007 at 14:50
So is musicdns competing directly with freedb ? I definitely need to read more on it.
D
Posted by: davduf | January 12, 2007 at 17:44