MusicBrainz on Mediachain

[denisnazarov]

Multiple Mediachain community members have expressed interest in building a music application on top of Mediachain and all require a plug-and-play music catalog to get started.

MusicBrainz is a great candidate for this because:

• extensive catalog (1.1 million artists, 1.6 million releases, and 16 million recordings) source
• used by tons of centralized applications under the hood
• openly licensed (CC0)
• live data feed available to stay in sync
• useful data extensions such as mbspotify exist

Steps to ingest Outlined in MusicBrainz docs:

• Set up postgres instance
• Import a database dump
• Export tables as json
• Publish to Mediachain (docs)
• Optional: Set up live feed ingestion

@Pyython @narula and @dramsay9 expressed interest in helping out! Using this issue as a place to coordinate the effort.

[parkan]

Outside of purely academic pursuits, you probably need streams backing the metadata. Not sure how many useful resolves are in mbspotify, given that it's a hackday project.

Extensive work on resolvers for different backends done by tomahawk, see tomahawk-resolvers (though thread carefully given grooveshark, youtube, etc are in there)