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42-911: MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, cover art , acoustic fingerprint , free-form annotation text and other metadata. As of November 2024, MusicBrainz contains information on over 2.4 million artists, 4.4 million releases, and 33.6 million recordings. End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as ALAC , FLAC , MP3 , Ogg Vorbis or AAC . MusicBrainz allows contributors to upload cover art images of releases to

84-504: A commercial function (i.e., to promote the product it is displayed on), but can also have an aesthetic function, and may be artistically connected to the product (such as with art by, or commissioned by, the creator of the product). Album cover art is artwork created for a music album . Notable album cover art includes Pink Floyd 's The Dark Side of the Moon , King Crimson 's In the Court of

126-530: A large user base, enabling the database to expand rapidly. By 2005, TRM was experiencing difficulties in handling the sheer volume of data, as the number of tracks stored in the database had surpassed the million mark.This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP (now AmpliFIND ), replacing TRM with MusicDNS. TRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. In October 2009 MusicIP

168-432: A large user base, enabling the database to expand rapidly. By 2005, TRM was experiencing difficulties in handling the sheer volume of data, as the number of tracks stored in the database had surpassed the million mark.This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP (now AmpliFIND ), replacing TRM with MusicDNS. TRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. In October 2009 MusicIP

210-582: A niche. Sheet music cover artists include Frederick S. Manning, William Austin Starmer and Frederick Waite Starmer , all three of whom worked for Jerome H. Remick . Other prolific artists included Albert Wilfred Barbelle , André C. De Takacs , and Gene Buck . E. H. Pfeiffer did cover illustrations for Gotham-Attucks ; Remick, F.B. Haviland Pub. Co.; Jerome & Schwartz Publishing Company ; Lew Berk Music Company; Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Inc. ; and others. MetaBrainz Foundation MusicBrainz

252-515: Is a MetaBrainz project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD metadata (this is information about

294-469: Is a MetaBrainz Foundation project tied to MusicBrainz. It aims to re-implement Last.fm features that were lost following that platform's acquisition by CBS. ListenBrainz takes submissions from media players and services such as Music Player Daemon , Spotify , and Rhythmbox in the form of listens. ListenBrainz can also import Last.fm and Libre.fm scrobbles in order to build listening history. As listens are released under an open license, ListenBrainz

336-467: Is a MetaBrainz Foundation project tied to MusicBrainz. It aims to re-implement Last.fm features that were lost following that platform's acquisition by CBS. ListenBrainz takes submissions from media players and services such as Music Player Daemon , Spotify , and Rhythmbox in the form of listens. ListenBrainz can also import Last.fm and Libre.fm scrobbles in order to build listening history. As listens are released under an open license, ListenBrainz

378-504: Is in charge of maintaining and reviewing the data. Until May 16, 2022, cover art was also provided for items on sale at Amazon.com and some other online resources, but CAA is now preferred, because it gives the community more control and flexibility for managing the images. In As of November 2024 , over 5.5 million images exist in the archive. In June 2024, MusicBrainz launched the Event Art Archive, another joint venture with

420-440: Is in charge of maintaining and reviewing the data. Until May 16, 2022, cover art was also provided for items on sale at Amazon.com and some other online resources, but CAA is now preferred, because it gives the community more control and flexibility for managing the images. In As of November 2024, over 5.5 million images exist in the archive. In June 2024, MusicBrainz launched the Event Art Archive, another joint venture with

462-825: Is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License , which allows use of the code by proprietary software products. In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation , a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye. On 20 January 2006, the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data was the Barcelona , Spain-based Linkara in their "Linkara Música" service. On 28 June 2007, BBC announced that it had licensed MusicBrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages. The BBC online music editors would also join

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504-580: Is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License , which allows use of the code by proprietary software products. In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation , a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye. On 20 January 2006, the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data was the Barcelona , Spain-based Linkara in their "Linkara Música" service. On 28 June 2007, BBC announced that it had licensed MusicBrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages. The BBC online music editors would also join

546-416: Is useful for music research for industry and development purposes. Cover art Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product, such as a book (often on a dust jacket ), magazine , newspaper ( tabloid ), comic book , video game ( box art ), music album ( album art ), CD , videotape , DVD , or podcast . The art has

588-421: Is usually designed by a graphic designer or book designer , working in-house at a publisher or freelance. Authors can make suggestions for book cover design elements (e.g., a preferred color) but rarely communicate directly with the designer. Once the front cover art has been approved, they will then continue to design the layout of the spine (including the book title, author name and publisher imprint logo) and

630-532: The New York Herald , launched what became known as the penny press (whose papers sold for one cent apiece). But some of what is considered the world's best journalism has been tabloid. From the days when John Pilger revealed the truth of Cambodia's Killing Fields in the Daily Mirror , to the stream of revelations that showed the hypocrisy of John Major's "back to basics" cabinet, award-winning writing in

672-520: The Eustace Tilly character for the magazine. Magazine cover artists who were well known for capturing important political and social issues of the day include Norman Rockwell , whose work appeared 322 times on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post (11 featuring the Willie Gillis character), and Dennis Wheeler, whose 40 covers for Time magazine illustrated social movements and news events of

714-481: The Hipgnosis studio. Some album art may cause controversy because of nudity (for example, John Lennon and Yoko Ono 's Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins ), offending churches, trademark or others. There have been numerous books documenting album cover art, particularly rock and jazz album covers. Steinweiss was an art director and graphic designer who brought custom artwork to record album covers and invented

756-546: The public domain , and additional content, including moderation data (essentially every original content contributed by users and its elaborations), is placed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA -2.0 license. The relational database management system is PostgreSQL . The server software is covered by the GNU General Public License . The MusicBrainz client software library , libmusicbrainz ,

798-406: The public domain , and additional content, including moderation data (essentially every original content contributed by users and its elaborations), is placed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA -2.0 license. The relational database management system is PostgreSQL . The server software is covered by the GNU General Public License . The MusicBrainz client software library , libmusicbrainz ,

840-559: The 1960s and 1970s; seven of them are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Mad magazine has a long history of placing the Alfred E. Neuman character prominently on its cover. Today, the word tabloid is used as a derogatory descriptor of a style of journalism, rather than its original intent as an indicator of half-broadsheet size. This tends to cloud

882-719: The Crimson King , Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , the Beatles ' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Abbey Road and their self-titled "White Album" , among others. Albums can have cover art created by the musician, as with Joni Mitchell 's Clouds , or by an associated musician, such as Bob Dylan 's artwork for the cover of Music from Big Pink , by the Band , Dylan's backup band's first album. Artists known for their album cover art include Alex Steinweiss , an early pioneer in album cover art, Roger Dean , and

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924-600: The Internet Archive. The project is labeled as "the internet's greatest repository for event art", and as of November 2024 , contains over 4,000 images. Besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint . A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, is used to do this. In 2000, MusicBrainz started using Relatable's patented TRM (a recursive acronym for TRM Recognizes Music) for acoustic fingerprint matching. The popularity of this feature drew in

966-538: The Internet Archive. The project is labeled as "the internet's greatest repository for event art", and as of November 2024, contains over 4,000 images. Besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint . A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, is used to do this. In 2000, MusicBrainz started using Relatable's patented TRM (a recursive acronym for TRM Recognizes Music) for acoustic fingerprint matching. The popularity of this feature drew in

1008-479: The MusicBrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database. On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist. MusicBrainz Picard is a free and open-source software application for identifying, tagging , and organising digital audio recordings. Picard identifies audio files and compact discs by comparing either their metadata or their acoustic fingerprints with records in

1050-475: The MusicBrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database. On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist. MusicBrainz Picard is a free and open-source software application for identifying, tagging , and organising digital audio recordings. Picard identifies audio files and compact discs by comparing either their metadata or their acoustic fingerprints with records in

1092-578: The United States. Book covers need to be effective at marketing, which can encourage reliance on stereotypical representations. For example, if the marketing strategy emphasizes that the author is a woman, then the cover might be designed in stereotypical feminine colors such as pink, and if the publisher wants to emphasize that the author is from a particular ethnic background, then the cover might include stereotypical representations of people from that ethnic group. Book cover art has had books written on

1134-464: The back cover (usually including a book blurb and sometimes the barcode and publisher logo ). Books can be designed as a set of series or as an individual design. Very commonly, the same book will be designed with a different cover in different countries to suit the specific audience. For example, a cover designed for Australia may have a completely different design in the United Kingdom and again in

1176-458: The cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's book 88 years after its debut. The iconic cover art was created by Spanish artist Francis Cugat . With the release of a big Hollywood movie, however, some printings of the book have abandoned the classic cover in favor of one that ties in more closely with the film. Magazine cover artists include Art Spiegelman , who modernized the look of The New Yorker magazine, and his predecessor Rea Irvin , who created

1218-438: The database. Audio file metadata (or "tags") are a means for storing information about a recording in the file. When Picard identifies an audio file , it can add new information to it, such as the recording artist, the album title, the record label , and the date of release. ListenBrainz is a free and open source project that aims to crowdsource listening data from digital music and release it under an open license . It

1260-435: The database. Audio file metadata (or "tags") are a means for storing information about a recording in the file. When Picard identifies an audio file , it can add new information to it, such as the recording artist, the album title, the record label , and the date of release. ListenBrainz is a free and open source project that aims to crowdsource listening data from digital music and release it under an open license . It

1302-456: The database; these images are hosted by Cover Art Archive (CAA), a joint project between Internet Archive and MusicBrainz started in 2012. Internet Archive provides the bandwidth, storage and legal protection for hosting the images, while MusicBrainz stores metadata and provides public access through the Web and via an API for third parties to use. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community

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1344-410: The database; these images are hosted by Cover Art Archive (CAA), a joint project between Internet Archive and MusicBrainz started in 2012. Internet Archive provides the bandwidth, storage and legal protection for hosting the images, while MusicBrainz stores metadata and provides public access through the Web and via an API for third parties to use. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community

1386-449: The fact that the great tabloids were skilfully produced amalgams of human interest stories told with punchy brevity, a clarity drawn from the choice of simple but effective words and often with a dose of wit. The gossipy tabloid scandal sheets, as we know them today, have been around since 1830. That's when Benjamin Day and James Gordon Bennett Sr. , the respective publishers of The Sun and

1428-422: The first packaging for long-playing records. Joanne Gair 's early album artwork such as David Lee Roth 's 1986 Eat 'Em and Smile album cover helped launch her career. A book cover is usually made up of images (illustrations, photographs, or a combination of both) and text. It usually includes the book title and author and can also include (but not always) a book tagline or quote. The book cover design

1470-545: The first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes , storing these eight times per second. Additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns. The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the AcoustID identifier along with MusicBrainz recording identifiers, if known. Since 2003, MusicBrainz's core data (artists, recordings, releases, and so on) are in

1512-492: The first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes , storing these eight times per second. Additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns. The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the AcoustID identifier along with MusicBrainz recording identifiers, if known. Since 2003, MusicBrainz's core data (artists, recordings, releases, and so on) are in

1554-464: The performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music. MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about

1596-509: The release date and country, the CD ID, cover art , acoustic fingerprint , free-form annotation text and other metadata. As of November 2024 , MusicBrainz contains information on over 2.4 million artists, 4.4 million releases, and 33.6 million recordings. End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as ALAC , FLAC , MP3 , Ogg Vorbis or AAC . MusicBrainz allows contributors to upload cover art images of releases to

1638-513: The subject. Numerous artists have become noted for their book cover art, including Richard M. Powers and Chip Kidd . In one of the most recognizable book covers in American literature, two sad female eyes (and bright red lips) adrift in the deep blue of a night sky, hover ominously above a skyline that glows like a carnival. Evocative of sorrow and excess, the haunting image has become so inextricably linked to The Great Gatsby that it still adorns

1680-670: The tabloids is acknowledged every year at the National Press Awards. Good cover art can lead readers to this fact; the New York Herald , for example, offers some examples of tabloid cover art. So too does the News & Review , a free weekly published in Nevada and California. The tabloid has thrived since the 1970s, and uses cartoonish cover art. Tabloids have a modern role to play, and along with good cover art (and new ideas) they fill

1722-534: Was acquired by AmpliFIND . Since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský. While AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing

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1764-481: Was acquired by AmpliFIND . Since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský. While AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing

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