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I need to look up artist/album/track information for song titles.
Is there a free database I could download or a open source web service/api I could use?
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What is a Music Database API? A music database API usually refers to a web service or REST API that retrieves and returns music info such as song tracks, lyrics, artist or album information. Some popular music database APIs include Deezer, iTunes, musiXmatch, and more.
Price: Spotify provides its API to developers for free. However, users who want to access extra features, such as ad-free access and offline playing of music, need to register for the premium service, which starts from $9.99 per month. Popularity: Spotify is a very popular digital music platform.
Discogs is the world's foremost Database, Marketplace, and Community for music. The user-built Database boasts a catalog of more than 11 million releases and 5.4 million artists making it the most extensive physical music Database in the world.
Try the last.fm api at http://www.last.fm/api.
If that doesn't work for you, you can look at the various APIs listed in this search result: http://www.programmableweb.com/category/music/api
This is a Silverlight tutorial, but since this is an HTTP REST API, it could seem agnostic to you to get started: http://www.devx.com/VisualStudio/Article/40158.
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I'd go with musicbrainz.
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XML_Web_Service
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libmusicbrainz
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