Tag Archives: API

Cover Art Archive ~ Online Artwork Library

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The Cover Art Archive is a joint project between the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, whose goal is to make cover art images available to everyone on the Internet in an organised and convenient way.

Images in the archive are curated by the MusicBrainz community and go through a peer review process to ensure that they are correct, free of spam and of the best quality. If you would like to contribute cover art, create a MusicBrainz account and follow the guide. To see what has been added to the archive recently, please see the Cover Art Archive page at the Internet Archive.

MusicBrainz also provides API documentation for retrieving cover art via a release MBID. A C based client library libcoverart is available as well as the Java coverartarchive-api library.

https://coverartarchive.org/

https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive?tab=about

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Audio File Library ~ Open Source Audio API

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The Audio File Library is a C-based library for reading and writing audio files in many common formats.

The Audio File Library provides a uniform API which abstracts away details of file formats and data formats. The same calls for opening a file, accessing and manipulating audio metadata (e.g. sample rate, sample format, textual information, MIDI parameters), and reading and writing sample data will work with any supported audio file format. The Audio File Library lets you work with audio data in whatever format is most convenient for you.

audiofile.68k.org
github.com/mpruett/audiofile

MusicBrainz ~ The Open Music Encyclopedia

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MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public.

MusicBrainz aims to be:

  • The ultimate source of music information by allowing anyone to contribute and releasing the data under open licenses.
  • The universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.
  • Like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz is maintained by a global community of users and we want everyone — including you — to participate and contribute.

musicbrainz.org
musicbrainz.org/doc/General_FAQ
wiki.musicbrainz.org/External_Resources
community.metabrainz.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz

Taggers:

picard.musicbrainz.org
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_musicbrainz