Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide - Meridian Audio

Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide
Appendix 1: The Elements of Metadata
Useful sources of Metadata
Here are some very useful websites
issues.
for researching covers, performers, composers c and music and disc
www.allmusic.com has good depth of information on all genres of music. However its cover art tends t to be
limited to 250px and so some users will want to improve on this.
http://www.discogs.com
has a good search engine and provides detailedd discographies.
http://www.arkivmusic.
com/classical/main.jsp has deep information on releases andd you can browse by
composer, conductor, performer, ensembles, labels and genre.
http://www.amazon.comm (not just the USA site) is very useful for tracking down discs, release information
and cover artwork. (Note, on Amazon, release date information can be unreliable).
u
www.google.com may lead you to a recording and the image
search is invaluable forr cover art.
http://www.tineye.com/
This reverse image search (and its neat browser plug-in) is superb for determining if
an image you have discovered can be bettered on the internet. The Sooloos system improves its
performancee for artwork
up to 1000px.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
Wikipedia has an astonishing amount of biographical, historical, musicological and
occasionally
discographical information.
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