MusicBrainzand library music collections

Robert KayeMetaBrainz Foundation Inc.

@MayhemBCN

What is MetaBrainz?The non-profit that runs the various *Brainz

projects. Founded in 2004 in California:

What is MusicBrainz?

MusicBrainz is like Wikipedia for music. Open source. Open data. User curated.

Founded in 2000, we have 1M artists, 1.5M releases, 19M tracks, 100k labels,

1.4M users, hundreds of orgs use our data

MusicBrainz in the wild

Some of the companies that support us for using our data:

We may be able to help!

Ways in which MetaBrainz may be able to help libraries:

1. Provide metadata and context for music in libraries

(MusicBrainz)

2. Provide tools to build recommendations engines

custom tailored to expose library’s collections.

(ListenBrainz and AcousticBrainz)

3. Streaming listening rooms in conjunction with the

Internet Archive.

MusicBrainz can provide context for music:

MusicBrainz can provide insight into music:

What is ListenBrainz?

except it is open: open source. open data.

ListenBrainz collects user listening data like

Collecting listen histories

Robert Kaye, Pink Floyd, Great Gig in the Sky, 2015-04-20 16:20

Why ListenBrainz?

Music recommendation systems are broken:

closed & controlled by the big guysbiased towards established artistslimited: we have almost no controlnon-profits, like libraries, are left out

There are no usable open source recommendation systems!

Why ListenBrainz?

To build a useful recommendation system you need:

Music metadata

Acoustic data

Listening history

Why ListenBrainz?

To build a useful recommendation system you need:

Acoustic data

Listening history

Why ListenBrainz?

To build a useful recommendation system you need:

Listening history

Why ListenBrainz?

To build a useful recommendation system you need:

ListenBrainz and Libraries

How can libraries use our tools

Internet Archive

Partner organization in CAA.Has large music collection.TBC

Internet Archive

Virtual network of listening rooms.Massive music collection.

Internet Archive

Perhaps obviate need for physical collections?Create a large streaming music system forall libraries?

Questions?

Ask now, or tweet to:

@ListenBrainz