We at MetaBrainz recently released a new dataset, with the very catchy title of ‘MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata’. We posted a link to it on Hacker News and accompanied it with the bold claim that a user could now build their own custom music tagging application, without a lot of effort!

You might think we put our feet in our mouths, but the joke’s on you! Our feet taste GREAT! And also because mayhem has written a quick tutorial, that tells you exactly how to write your own tagger, in Python, using our new open dataset. The tutorial has three steps!? That seems like too few, but I haven’t tested it, so it’s probably fine. I hope someone’s tested it.

ANYWAY, new music dataset, you can use it to make cool things, it’s free for non-commercial users, there’s a tutorial on how to use it via the link at the top of this page. You can view all the MetaBrainz datasets at https://metabrainz.org/datasets

I just added another suggestion to the README on the example project on how extra steps that can be taken to make the data lookup even more precise.

Writing your own music tagger has never been easier!