Music database
May 28, 2010 4:03 PM Subscribe
Are there small databases for music and (less importantly for me), books and movies that are available as sql dumps or flat txt files?
I'm working on a small fun personal (at least initially) project where I need to have a database of around 5k-10k most popular music cds of all genres, where I only need the name, list of tracks and maybe year. If possible, it'd be great to have similar databases for books and films, of about the same size, but that's not as important. I only found freedb.org, which is cool but very messy and it seems like cleaning things up will take too much of my work. If it were clean, large size would not be a problem.
Sites that allow searching one thing at a time or with API that allows limited queries / day is not going to cut it for me.
Ideally I need something with GPL or BSD or similar kind of license, or available for licensing for cheap.
I'm working on a small fun personal (at least initially) project where I need to have a database of around 5k-10k most popular music cds of all genres, where I only need the name, list of tracks and maybe year. If possible, it'd be great to have similar databases for books and films, of about the same size, but that's not as important. I only found freedb.org, which is cool but very messy and it seems like cleaning things up will take too much of my work. If it were clean, large size would not be a problem.
Sites that allow searching one thing at a time or with API that allows limited queries / day is not going to cut it for me.
Ideally I need something with GPL or BSD or similar kind of license, or available for licensing for cheap.
Response by poster: Thanks! I looked at MB before but missed the dbdump download.
posted by rainy at 8:08 AM on May 29, 2010
posted by rainy at 8:08 AM on May 29, 2010
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