Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Freesound provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to:
- browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and more
- upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
- interact with fellow sound-artists!
We also aim to create an open database of sounds that can also be used for scientific research and be integrated in third party applications. Using the Freesound API researchers and developers can access Freesound content and retrieve meaningful sound information such as metadata, analysis files and the sounds themselves.
freesound.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freesound
Tag Archives: web service
AcoustID ~ Identify Your Music
AcoustID is a project providing complete audio identification service, based entirely on open source software.
It that consists of a client library for generating compact fingerprints from audio files, a large crowd-sourced database of audio fingerprints, many of which are linked to the MusicBrainz metadata database using their unique identifiers, and a web service that enables applications to quickly search the fingerprint database.
acoustid.org
Applications
Acoustic Fingerprint – Wikipedia
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Last.fm ~ Scrobblers
Last.fm is a web service that scrobbles, or tracks and publishes, your music profile and listening history.
Download software to scrobble from anywhere and from any service.
Android:
github.com/simple-last-fm-scrobbler
Browser plugins:
Last.fm scrobbler for Chrome
scroblr.fm
Cross-platform:
github.com/kawaiiDango/pano-scrobbler
Foobar2000:
github.com/gix/foo_scrobble ~ newer
github.com/zfoxer/foo_scrobbler_mac
www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_audioscrobbler
Web:
openscrobbler.com
universalscrobbler.com
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Lacinato ABX ~ Comparing Track Quality
Lacinato ABX is the only cross-platform ABX and shootout blind testing software for audio. It allows double-blind ABX testing of audio files (seeing if you can tell which file is being played), as well as “shootouts” (picking your favorite from a shuffled, anonymized list). Or you can just use it as a convenient way to switch between files (maintaining the current play position, if you like.
Website
Web Service ~ online version
ABX Testing ~ Wikipedia
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The Infinite Jukebox ~ A Song Stretcher
“For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough” ~ The Infinite Jukebox
“The Infinite Jukebox is a web app lets you upload a favorite MP3 and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song.” ~ FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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gnudb.org ~ CD Metadata Database
An opensource alternative CDDB / FreeDB service.
gnudb.org ~ a new home for the freedb database
How to use gnudb.org:
- Configure your CDDB or freedb-aware software to point to gnudb.gnudb.org as your CDDB / freedb-server.
All official gnudb servers are running cddbp at port 8880 and http at port 80
The path for http-access is
/~cddb/cddb.cgiAccess a xmcd file directly when you know the genre and discid at:
http://www.gnudb.org/gnudb/genre/discidExample ~
http://www.gnudb.org/gnudb/rock/390f1215
Source: gnudb.org CD database
Search By Artist, Album or Artist And Album:
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AcousticBrainz ~ Analyze Your Music
The AcousticBrainz project aims to crowd source acoustic information for all music in the world and to make it available to the public. This acoustic information describes the acoustic characteristics of music and includes low-level spectral information and information for genres, moods, keys, scales and much more. The goal of AcousticBrainz is to provide music technology researchers and open source hackers with a massive database of information about music. ~ AcousticBrainz
Blog
Downloads
FAQ
Github
Wiki
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MusicBrainz ~ The Open Music Encyclopedia
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
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Discogs ~ Music Database & Marketplace
Discover the largest music database and marketplace in the world. Buy and sell vinyl, CDs and more with collectors from around the globe. Catalog and complete your collection.
www.discogs.com
Discogs Index
Discogs Lists
r/discogs
Ogger Club
Python API ~ github.com/joalla/discogs_client
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VirusTotal ~ Online Security Scanner
Please check new websites and scan any downloaded files before you install new software. VirusTotal is a free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware.
VirusTotal is a website, originally developed by Hispasec, that provides free checking of files for viruses. It uses 55 different antivirus products and 61 online scan engines[2][3] to check for viruses that the user’s own antivirus solution may have missed, or to verify against any false positives.[4] Files up to 128 MB can be uploaded to the website or sent via email ~ Wikipedia
The Audio File 