[icecast] [OT] Online music database

[Scott Prive]

I'd search freshmeat/sourceforge/cpan before doing anything... there might already be a library or package for general-purpose web-grepping..

If not you can probably use a "HTML to ascii" converter (or some Perl/awk tag strip construct) which will reduce fluff in the pages. I find it easier to throw away data I know I _don't_ want first (though, if I knew regular expressions better, I probably wouldn't need this crutch :-). 

I'd worry about how to download the pages as the very last thing (just save yourself a few documents using the web browser).

If you're not on UNIX, I'd reccomend investigating Cygwin. It's overkill for this task, but it has many other uses..

-Scott

<p><p><p><p><p><p><p>> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo Currie [mailto:leo.currie at strath.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 12:04 PM
> To: icecast at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [icecast] [OT] Online music database
> 
> 
> Scott Prive wrote:
> > (Already noting the posts that say this is not available)
> > 
> > Are you willing to deal with "non authoritative" answers in 
> your query?
> 
> Yep. Basically, we're running a student 'radio' station 
> (online, mainly 
> music, multiple streams), most of which will be playlisted. At the 
> moment I'm cobbling together a script to let folk upload .ogg 
> files to 
> the database. It presents them with a form containing all the 
> tag's off 
> the file, and a few other details we need (including the 
> publisher) for 
> them to confirm / edit before it's stored.
> The publisher details are required for our returns to the music 
> licensing people (who will no doubt double check everything!)
> So it would be nice for the script to at least _guess_ at which label 
> the track was licensed by.
> 
> > If so, you can write some scripts that talk CGI to a 
> commercial music vendor. I use a (no  longer available) MP3 
> tagger called "MP3 Internet Renamer". It would go out and 
> request a web page from the "All Music Guide" ( 
> http://www.allmusic.com/ ). 
> 
> Sounds good.  My skills aren't up to it, but there is only one way to 
> learn...
> 
> > The application  will then parse out information for the 
> tags. The tagger is no longer available (and was closed 
> source anyways) so you'll need to write your own regular 
> expressions/parser, but this is very doable using a 
> lightweight web browser such as "links" (or lynx, w3m, etc).
> 
> wonder if I could do it using libwww-perl?
> 
> > This method breaks if the music vendor has incorrect 
> information, or if they change page formatting sufficently 
> that your text search no longer finds the data.
> 
> I'll give it a shot! I guess it's just a case of taking a 
> close look at 
> the html results from a bunch of queries, and working out a 
> strategy for 
> extracting the right info.
> Thanks for the link! I'll let you know how I get on...
> 
> Leo
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Leo Currie [mailto:leo.currie at strath.ac.uk]
> >>Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 7:04 AM
> >>To: icecast at xiph.org
> >>Subject: [icecast] [OT] Online music database
> >>
> >>
> >>Sorry this isn't really icecast related, but
> >>I'm looking for an online music database that will let me search by 
> >>artist+track and retrieve the likely record label / music 
> >>publisher that 
> >>owns the copyright.
> >>I want to do this from within a script as well :)
> >>Hoping somebody might know of one off the top of their head...
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>
> >>Leo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > 
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