Looking for an online music database, music search engine which would allow me to filter musical acts by genre and their country of origin (Canada, specifically). Is there a site out there like AllMusic or Last.fm offering this? I've looked in vain for filtering of this sort from these and other musical databases. [more inside]
posted by concourse on Feb 18, 2009 - 3 answers

I'm trying to find an online database or wiki that is devoted solely to music in film. I'm looking for a site where I can either search for a piece of music and find out what films that piece of music appeared in, or search for a film and find out what music appeared in that film. Does this site exist?
posted by al_fresco on Nov 2, 2008 - 5 answers

Do we know of a web service where I can feed a song title and artist in the front, and get one single canonical answer to the question of when it was first released? [more inside]
posted by genghis on Apr 16, 2008 - 6 answers

Is there a website that categorizes songs by mood or subject? Searching iTunes for title words and hoping the title then corresponds to the lyrics/mood doesn't always give the best results. [more inside]
posted by melodykramer on Apr 8, 2008 - 5 answers

I have a data set of approximately 9,000 hip-hop tracks. It's in an Excel file. I have the song title, the artist, and the album. Now I just need the year. How can I find and automatically import the year into the Excel file without manually looking up every track on Google? Is there a way to do this with MusicBrainz or a similar database?
posted by schroedinger on Jan 26, 2007 - 9 answers

Help me find industrial-strength software to catalog an extremely large CD collection. [more inside]
posted by jbickers on Dec 15, 2006 - 6 answers

MusicResourceFilter: Are there any alternatives to allmusic.com that has as comprehensive a database for band discography, biography, and ratings, with an online presence that DOESN'T suck? [more inside]
posted by blastrid on Nov 10, 2006 - 10 answers

Are there any comprehensive sites which catalog the original sources of audio later sampled in songs? [more inside]
posted by Danelope on Jun 12, 2006 - 6 answers

I want to interact with my music library over a network and be able to add notes, links, etc. to each item. Looking for static or dynamic approaches . . . [more inside]
posted by fourcheesemac on Mar 25, 2006 - 4 answers

What classical music databases exist? I'm not looking for lists or even data. I am looking for relational database DDL that describes/implements a structure sufficient to describe/model classical music. Or, if you don't know of such a database, classical aficionados, give me advice on how to implement such a database. [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Feb 22, 2006 - 14 answers

I'd like to run a FreeDB server on my Windows box at home so I don't have to stay connected to the internet to get the track listings for the CD's I want to upload into iTunes. However, although I can find a zillion FreeDB aware clients, I'm having difficulty finding a native Windows version of the server. Does such a thing exist? [more inside]
posted by ralawrence on Jun 6, 2005 - 5 answers

What's a good low-cost software that will archive my music cd information? [more inside]
posted by B_Sovereign on Mar 6, 2005 - 7 answers

I have been given the task of looking up the year-of-release for a large number (~8000) songs. Many of these titles are European, Latin American, and South American. Allmusic.com is okay, but slow and not as comprehensive as I require--esp. for uncommon titles. I'd bet that I have to find some specialized databases. Anyone have a suggestion?
posted by mdpc98 on Dec 14, 2004 - 9 answers

Does anyone know of a website that lists songs and the tracks they stole samples from? My googlefu has failed me.
posted by twine42 on Nov 19, 2004 - 4 answers

Are there any good online web services where you enter musical artists that you currently like, and it figures out what artists you would probably also like (based on what other people have entered)?
posted by oissubke on Jan 12, 2004 - 12 answers

I'm looking for a program that will catalog my music collection as a webpage. I'd like something that alphabetically lists artists, and each artist entry can be expanded to list songs. Preferably the program would work from an M3U playlist or based off my file structure (songs are in folders according to artist).
posted by punishinglemur on Dec 30, 2003 - 8 answers