Started with an audio scrobbling endpoint, ended up …

Started with an audio scrobbling endpoint, ended up creating a database of all of my music.

Ran everything through MusicBrainz Picard. Then used Mp3tag to clean up the results and create a CSV file (which I had to manually clean up, still, before I could import it into MySQL/MariaDB).

The interesting bit is that while mpdscribble submissions contain a MusicBrainz track ID—if there is one, hence my decision to use Picard—alongside artist and album information, it’s not actually that easy to retrieve _consistent_ release (“album”) information—there’s often different versions, with different (bonus) tracks or cover art, etc.—from MusicBrainz’s API.

Having my own database, with only the versions I own, should make these lookups a whole lot easier, although it does mean it’ll occasionally need updated.

One response to “Started with an audio scrobbling endpoint, ended up …”

  1. Jan Boddez Avatar

    foobar2000, or the hacky plugin I’m using, doesn’t seem to submit MusicBrainz IDs. Maintaining my own song library might not be such a crazy idea after all. Might have better genre information, too.