AcousticBrainz
AcousticBrainz was a free and open source project that aimed to crowd source acoustic information from digital music under an open license.[1] It was a MetaBrainz Foundation project tied to MusicBrainz.
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Type of site | Acoustic analysis project |
|---|---|
| Owner | MetaBrainz Foundation |
| URL | acousticbrainz |
| Commercial | No |
| Current status | Online, to be fully retired early 2023 |
Content license | CC0 |
AcousticBrainz had both CLI and GUI clients that could scan music libraries and submit the resulting acoustic data to the AcousticBrainz database. While it was possible to compile the client, the project preferred usage of a binary.[2] From this acoustic data, AcousticBrainz automatically generated information like BPM, key, and timbre. This information was used to study trends in popular music.[3][4]
The project was discontinued on February 16, 2022, after 7 years of service, with focus being moved to the newer ListenBrainz project.[5]
References
- "AcousicBrainz Goals". AcousticBrainz. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- "AcousticBrainz Download". AcousticBrainz. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- Savage, Mark (9 July 2020). "Pop music is getting faster (and happier)". BBC News. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- Interiano, Myra; Kazemi, Kamyar; Wang, Lijia; Yang, Jienian; Yu, Zhaoxia; Komarova, Natalia (16 May 2018). "Musical trends and predictability of success in contemporary songs in and out of the top charts". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (5): 171274. Bibcode:2018RSOS....571274I. doi:10.1098/rsos.171274. PMC 5990848. PMID 29892348. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- Porter, Alastair. "AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project". MetaBrainz Blog. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
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