Online Music and Lyrics Databases: Freedb, Musicbrainz, Mutopia Project, Kazaa, Last.FM, Whole Wheat Radio, Imeem, Amie Street, Pandora Radio

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Freedb, MusicBrainz, Mutopia Project, Kazaa, Last.fm, Whole Wheat Radio, Imeem, Amie Street, Pandora Radio, International Music Score Library Project, Grooveshark, CDDB, Encyclopaedia Metallum, Discogs, List of online music databases, Ourstage, Music Australia, Musicovery, MOG, LyricWiki, SongMeanings, The Hype Machine, Choral Public Domain Library, Music Genome Project, Jamendo, Werner Icking Music Archive, Allmusic, Songza, MoodLogic, Gracenote, MetroLyrics, Rate Your Music, Just Hear It, MiRoamer, Rolldabeats, Jesus Freak Hideout, GoMusic, MusicDNS, BestEverAlbums.com, Libre.fm, Decibel, Helmut Kickton, GarageBand.com, Wikifonia, Musopen, Mudcat Cafe, FilesTube, PLAY.FM, Jango, Voxound, WhoSampled, Electrobel, Rock's Backpages, Australian Rock Database, Dogmazic, ChristianRock.Net, Musixmatch, MOOMA, Tunewiki, Audiobaba, Sing365.com, International Lyrics Server, AMG LASSO, Yahoo Radish, Operissimo concertissimo, Eyesore Database, Plurn. Excerpt: Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed over 40 million active users based in more than 190 countries. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK 140m (US$280m). Using a music recommender system called Audioscrobbler, Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the songs the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices. This information is transferred (scrobbled) to Last.fm's database either via the music player itself (Rdio, Spotify, Amarok) or via a plugin installed into the user's music player. The profile data is then displayed on the user's profile page. By April 2011 Last.fm reported more than 50 billion scrobbles. The service is free, however users living outside the UK, US, and Germany, require a subsc...