Comment by egypturnash
2 days ago
Damn, MusicBrainz is still running?
"MusicBrainz is operated by the MetaBrainz Foundation, a California based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation dedicated to keeping MusicBrainz free and open source." - the gloriously retro-looking front page
Still running and still doing great! Some of us still curate a local music library instead of streaming ;)
I curate my own library too but it's pretty much all off of Bandcamp. I don't even own a CD drive I could rip with any more.
Even with digital releases, MusicBrainz often has more detailed metadata than the original files. And if you have a mixed library of rips and digital purchases, it is nice to use a tagger like Picard to enforce consistent directory structure and filenaming.
You can curate a music library without ripping CDs tho.
Depends on your musical tastes. A good 25% of the music in my library is not available in any form other than used CDs.
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I can curate my own library of bookmarks within [some other body's music library] without CDs; of course I can.
I can do that with iTunes or Spotify or Tidal or Amazon Music or whatever else.
But none of these bookmarks are necessarily related to my music. They are only just bookmarks that refer to music that might exist within the libraries that these bodies provide.
And while all of these libraries are certainly quite vast, there's a fuckton of (published!) music that these commercial libraries do not provide.
MusicBrainz has (or at least had) an acoustic fingerprint system for processing audio files too.
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Indeed! About half of my new music acquisition is on CD, the other half is Bandcamp/Qobuz/7Digital.
Seeing a Mastodon link on a clearly hand-written HTML site is neat.