Beatsource Metadata Inspector
Being a sister/affiliate service to Beatport, I know that its links are not whitelisted in MB (at least not yet) but its easily accessible API has been helpful to me in providing release metadata which is often absent on equivalents served by other digital platforms.
Came up with this script that injects an expandable/collapsible panel onto release pages of Beatsource with the following info obtained from the API that’s hidden from the publicly available UI:
- UPC (barcode)
- (if present and different from the UPC) Catalog number (this includes Sony’s own internal grid identifiers such as G01000xxxxxxx and A1030xxxxxxx)
- All timestamps returned by the API, converted into YYYY-MM-DD format (These can especially be helpful if you doubt the canonical dates that are visible on release pages. It should output
warnings if a date contains the infamous 1 January placeholder or might be too early for a digital release (the launch dates of iTunes and Spotify being used as points of reference)). - ISRC codes for each of the tracks.
