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davidjennings's Archive on Jul 06, 2007
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How the BBC is now using MusicBrainz data for its artist profiles, and how this will be extended to radio tracklistings.
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been working with Rob Kaye to integrate the MusicBrainz database into the BBC’s music site. And we’ve just integrated MusicBrainz to provide discographies and track listings across our 700 or so artist pages. Well I say we, but I really mean Michael and Stephen who have done most of the work - so a big thanks to them. This is an exciting project. MusicBrainz is an open source, community maintained database of music information. We’re using MusicBrainz to provide centralized Music IDs for artists, albums and tracks to underpin our move to a data-driven music offering. And we’re starting with discographies (which I guess in itself isn’t exactly exciting - but little steps and all…)