The MusicBrainz database stores all the data of the MusicBrainz music metadata catalogue. This data includes all the data about Artists, Releases, Tracks, AdvancedRelationships between them, but also the MusicBrainz users (editors) and the changes they entered into the database …
From website:
> Welcome to Discogs, a community-built database of music information. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced. It’s getting closer every day.
All material is [in the public domain](http://www.discogs.com/da …
For the last ten years, obsessive record collectors in Usenet have been working on the Whitburn Project — a huge undertaking to preserve and share high-quality recordings of every popular song since the 1890s. To assist their efforts, they’ve created a spreadsheet of 37,000 songs and 112 columns …
Interesting selection of jazz, blues, folk, gospel and other American roots music digitised by Juneberry 78.
Regarding rights, they write:
> These Public Domain MP3s are presented for Historical and Educational purposes.
They also include the following disclaimer:
> Pu …
This constitutes a complete discography, excluding B-Sides,* for the assemblage of musicians known as Tom Fahy. This list describes a span of productivity commencing in 1991 and ending in 2008. It should be assumed that the group’s core members contributed in-part to releases from the year 1999 th …
From [http://www.musopen.com/html/about.html](http://www.musopen.com/html/about.html):
> Musopen is an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has …
From download page:
> Over 8.5GB of FREE Samples – Sound Effects, Loops, Grooves, Drums, Voices and Instruments – for The Children of the World. This huge and continuously expanding collection of new and original samples have been donated to Dr. Richard Boulanger @ cSounds.com …
Possibly the biggest, completely-free Jazz discography on the Net.
This classic text is full of lore about pipers and pipemaking, as well as many other aspects of Irish Traditional Music both in Ireland and in the American diaspora. The author, Captain Francis O’Neill, was also the author of the book known commonly as “O’Neill’s”, and probably did more than any o …
“With recording devices and microphones pdsounds volunteers acoustically discover the beauty of the world. From the million sounds of things to the pure waves of sinus. Our goal is to record it all and make it available for free.”
“All pdsounds recordings are in the public domain.”
“This effort has started in the context of the Linking open data community project of the Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group.
Its main purpose is to make available freely available data concerning music on the semantic-web, such as Magnatune, Jamendo, Dogmazic, Mutopia, and to cre …
“Much of the data available to view on Last.fm is available in several formats through the Audioscrobbler Web Services API.”
Data variously available in Plain, XML, XSPF, iCal and RSS.
“All web services here are for non-commercial use only under the Creativ …
This dataset consists of a collection of Infoboxes from Wikipedia on the topic of Online Music Service.
Audioscrobbler, which is now merged with last.fm, once published a database of what music people listened to with the audioscrobbler plugin. Last.fm no longer publishes it, however the initial releases were in the public domain so I can offer it for download.
Here’s the file:
Application Programming Interface is available to anyone who wishes to use our database for their own music project, website or program. If you currently use the web to search out lyrics or use code tricks to access other lyrics websites to display relevant lyrics text for your content you can now …