Tech Question - Matching Songs w/ Genres

georgetharlowe · 04-06-2017, 07:32 AM

Hi Music Banter Community

I have a large list of songs and artists (about 250K+ entries). And I’d like to populate this table with their corresponding genres and years.

Because everything is text, I can’t use CD-based meta data to pull the results.

It’s also tough to find the “earliest’ release dates since many songs are re-released every few years.

I can often find this information by hand on sites like Discogs, AllMusic, iTunes, and MusicBrainz.

But I was wondering if there was an easier way to populate my list with the most accurate genre/year data?

Thanks in advance,

-George

TechnicLePanther · 04-06-2017, 08:21 PM

Get some corresponding data with which you can correlate genre and year data? Other than that I don't see how you'll be able to easily correlate it. Genre can vary wildly by artist and song even if you did figure out a way to categorize them by relation or some such. Good luck though.

georgetharlowe · 04-09-2017, 12:00 PM

thnx.

04-06-2017, 07:32 AM	#1 (permalink)
georgetharlowe Groupie Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 2	Tech Question - Matching Songs w/ Genres Hi Music Banter Community I have a large list of songs and artists (about 250K+ entries). And I’d like to populate this table with their corresponding genres and years. Because everything is text, I can’t use CD-based meta data to pull the results. It’s also tough to find the “earliest’ release dates since many songs are re-released every few years. I can often find this information by hand on sites like Discogs, AllMusic, iTunes, and MusicBrainz. But I was wondering if there was an easier way to populate my list with the most accurate genre/year data? Thanks in advance, -George

04-06-2017, 08:21 PM	#2 (permalink)
TechnicLePanther and the livin' is easy... Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: New York Posts: 1,997	Get some corresponding data with which you can correlate genre and year data? Other than that I don't see how you'll be able to easily correlate it. Genre can vary wildly by artist and song even if you did figure out a way to categorize them by relation or some such. Good luck though. __________________ Many have tried to destroy it... but... true evil never dies. It is only... REBORN *SUGGEST ME AN ALBUM* - I'm probably not going to listen to it but I will if you bother me enough.

04-09-2017, 12:00 PM	#3 (permalink)
georgetharlowe Groupie Join Date: Apr 2017 Posts: 2	thnx.