MusicBrainz powers BBC music

Cory Doctorow 5:49 am Thu Jun 28, 2007

Robert Kaye is founder of the MusicBrainz project, a free and open database of music metadata that uses "audio fingerprints" to figure out what song you're listening to, then add metadata like artist, title, album, related artist, reviews, etc.

He says, "Setting aside BBC's iPlayer DRM shenanigans for a second, I'm pleased to announce something that the BBC is doing right! The BBC has just licensed the MusicBrainz live data feed and has fortified its music pages with MusicBrainz provided information. What is even more significant is that the /music teams at the BBC will be participating in editing/adding to the MusicBrainz data. This gives MusicBrainz access to the BBC's deep music knowledge that many others around the world simply can't match. For more information, check out the press release and this more detailed MusicBrainz blog post."

I'm proud to serve on the board of directors for the charitable non-profit that oversees MusicBrainz, the MetaBrainz Foundation.

(Thanks, Rob!)

Update: The BBC's Tom Scott sez, "Bit more information on the work we've done with Rob on integrating MusicBrainz into the the BBC music site.

I'm proud of this (so sorry for the self promotion) but in addition to the musicbrainz integration we've also released the related album reviews under CC and microformatted. Plus some related projects."

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