Hi everyone,
Late last year I spent some time adding some more genres and tags to recordings in MusicBrainz.
A quick overview of what we did:
- Added 6 Million individual tags to over 1.3 million recordings
- Data aggregated from three different sources
- Data automatically mapped to existing MusicBrainz tags, and manually verified
- Source code and data for this project at GitHub - metabrainz/genre-matching: Experiments to match external genre datasets to musicbrainz genres
- Tags added by three bot accounts, Editor ātags-lastfmā - MusicBrainz, Editor ātags-discogsā - MusicBrainz and Editor ātags-tagtraumā - MusicBrainz
There is some more details about what we did in the source repository, but Iāll repeat some of it here.
We collected this data from three sources - genre and style annotations from discogs, tags from last.fm, and tags from beatunes. This data comes from an earlier project which I did a few years ago to collect some more detailed genre metadata for submissions that we had in AcousticBrainz.
The tag names in these data sources didnāt always match with what was in MusicBrainz, so we performed some automatic matching to try and match similarly written tags. @reosarevok did a great job of then manually verifying these matches, and in some cases creating some new genres in the MusicBrainz database.
These tags act just like any other tag in the MusicBrainz database, that is, they can be upvoted or downvoted as usual. If you want to upvote something then please feel free to do so. Likewise, if you see something that you donāt agree with, downvote away. You can see a list of the tags applied at
- Editor ātags-tagtraumā - Tags - MusicBrainz
- Editor ātags-lastfmā - Tags - MusicBrainz
- Editor ātags-discogsā - Tags - MusicBrainz
In the case that you find some really suspect tagging choices then let us know and weāll see if we can make some corrections.
I hope you find these tags useful - the ListenBrainz development team already has some ideas about how to use them to start building some new recommendations to listen to. Let us know how you plan to use them!