Other than Bandcamp and Discogs what is a good generic resource to link to for a band assuming you know the band name and maybe the album name?

[rasterweb@mastodon.social]

@mattl I’ll give it another try but my first two attempts I could not get it to work as all.

[djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology]

@[email protected] https://musicbrainz.org is the first that comes to mind for more details but not for actual plays necessarily, though it often points to somewhere the track can be heard, for example: https://musicbrainz.org/release/249aebb1-c662-415d-87fc-a08aca8feb5f/disc/1#4f12d338-7ab4-4ee3-8738-7d1a4573a46a

[mattl@social.coop]

@djsundog yeah I don’t see anything there that lands me on a big donate button. But happy to be wrong on this if it’s useful for artists.

Are you an artist?

[mattl@social.coop]

@rasterweb if you have any issues [email protected] is the place to message and I’ll get back you asap.

[djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology]

@[email protected] I play bass on that album, and there's a link in the credits to our bandcamp page. sorry, nevermind.

[mattl@social.coop]

@djsundog so it would be great to link to the Bandcamp page. I don’t know if the Musicbrainz API will give that up but I’m trying to avoid automation here.

[djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology]

@[email protected] cool, good luck

[mattl@social.coop]

@djsundog if your band has a libre.fm profile and you have a personal account let me know via email and I’ll hook you up.

[benhm3@mastodon.social]

@mattl

Is there a justwatch for music? (Apple owns Shazam, dammit.)

[mattl@social.coop]

@Benhm3 I think we’re trying at least to be a part of it.

But it’s miserable.

[josef@mastodon.uniteddiversity.coop]

@mattl I wanted to be able to click https://libre.fm

[josef@mastodon.uniteddiversity.coop]

@mattl is there an up to date repo somewhere? The website still links to the github repo that was archived 2 years ago ‍️

[mattl@social.coop]

@josef yeah that’s the code. Hasn’t really changed in a while. I’m slowly working on a rewrite.

[brentdev@defcon.social]

@mattl I think some have been mentioned but as someone who's deep dived into automating artist/band/album/release/artwork retrieval the easiest to find matches would be the iTunes Search API (same goes for album art), MusicBrainz API (https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API) , Spotify API (https://developer.spotify.com/), and then last.fm/discogs. For live show data/setlists the best resource is setlist.fm and they have a friendly api (https://api.setlist.fm/docs/1.0/index.html ), for lyrics https://lrclib.net/ is the best (free, with db dumps and api!) otherwise you'll have to use a workaround hack for the genius.com api (which is against TOS) as they don't include full lyrics unless you pay an insane amount of $. Mixmatch is who caught google scraping their lyrics db and now they only offer paid subscriptions for their lyrics api. Cover art can be grabbed from the top sources i first mentioned (itunes, spotify, musicbrainz + cover art archive, last.fm). Audio ID (i.e. shazam) can be done using a number of methods. Here are some links to fill in the gaps & provide more resources for ya to pick through:
https://gist.github.com/0xdevalias/eba698730024674ecae7f43f4c650096#my-other-related-deepdive-gists-and-projects
and
https://metabrainz.org/projects

Big fan of the project btw!

[mattl@social.coop]

@brentdev it should be easier