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align="right" class="statsb">Tracks:</td><td valign="top" class="stats">286684</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right" class="statsb">TRM Ids:</td><td valign="top" class="stats">41328</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right" class="statsb">DiskIds:</td><td valign="top" class="stats">8967</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="right" class="statsb">Mods:</td><td valign="top" class="stats">21436</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  <table width="141" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/index.html"> <tr> <td width="131" height="1" bgcolor="#000000"><img src="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> <td width="10" rowspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><img src="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"><br><img 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This server is designed to enable Audio CD and MP3/Vorbis players to download metadata about the music they are playing. All of the data collected on this server is made available to the public under the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.opencontent.org/">OpenContent</a> license. <p> Over the next few weeks the FreeAmp, MusicBrainz, Relatable.com and EMusic.com teams will continue to work out the kinks in the system and fine-tune the data collection and maintenance algorithms. This server should be fully active and ready for the general public to participate this fall. In the meantime, please feel free to look around and see what MusicBrainz has to offer. There is a client library that application authors can incorporate into their applictions to quickly and easily add MusicBrainz support. The source code for the client library and the server source code can be obtained <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/download.html">here</a>. <p> If you have any questions or comments about this server, please <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/mailto:rob@eorbit.net">contact me</a>. <p> <br> <center> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td bgcolor="#000000"> <table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" border="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFBA58" align="left" valign="middle" width="100%" class="mbtable"> <img src="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/pixel.gif" width="3" height="1" alt="" border="0" align="absmiddle"> Recent News Items <img src="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/pixel.gif" width="3" height="1" alt="" border="0" align="absmiddle"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="body"> <table border="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td valign="top"> 7-3-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> The MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/MM/mm2.html">version 2 rough draft</a> has been updated. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 6-16-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> The server has been updated to include a unified track insertion scheme (which should reduce insertion errors), support for checking/using Artist aliases during an insertion, support for adding and deleting Artist aliases, and the server now uses UUIDs for the MusicBrainz IDs for Artists, Albums, and Tracks. Finally, DiskIds are now shown to moderators, and moderators can also click on tracks to get a detailed track information page. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 5-24-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> C-NET New runs a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-6008182-0.html?tag=tp_pr">story</a> about the Roxio lawsuit with coverage about freedb.org and MusicBrainz. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 5-23-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> Updated the <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/documentation.html">Documentation</a> page and added the <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/status.html">Project Status</a>, and the first rough draft of the <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/MM/mm2.html">MM version 2</a> specification. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 4-20-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> Released the MusicBrainz client library 1.0.0! <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/download.html">Download</a> the client library, or check out the <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/client_howto.html">client HOWTO</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 4-19-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> MusicBrainz is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://news.webnoize.com/item.rs?ID=12681">mentioned</a> in the Relatable/Napster deal in a WebNoize article. (Requires Webnoize subscription) </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 4-18-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> Updated the MusicBrainz server with support for version 2 of the MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative. A complete new spec will be posted soon. The dataset on the server has been cleaned up with the data cleanup scripts that have been collected over the last few weeks. Finally, the <a href="/web/20010815175207/http://www.musicbrainz.org/download.html">download</a> page also now has a link to Luke Harless' MS Access database suitable for importing the MusicBrainz data. </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> 3-5-2001 </td> <td valign="top"> A new MusicBrainz server, MusicBrainz client and a new version of FreeAmp has been released. The Relatable TRM is now stronger/better than ever, and the server is now more friendly towards creating a mirror/replication system. It also supports converting multiple artist albums into single artist albums. </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td></tr></table> <br><p> <p> <br> <br> <font size="+1" class="title">This server is beta software!</font><br> If you encounter strange behaviour or missing pages, please <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.freeamp.org/bugzilla">report a bug</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Space for this page and the MusicBrainz server is provided by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.emusic.com/">EMusic Corporation</a><br> and audio track signature technology provided by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.relatable.com/">Relatable.com</a>. </center> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><img src="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="10%" class="footer">   </td> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="15%" class="footer"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.opencontent.org/">OpenContent</a> </td> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="15%" class="footer"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GPL</a> </td> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="15%" class="footer"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">LGPL</a> </td> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="15%" class="footer"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.slashdot.org/">SlashDot</a> </td> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="15%" class="footer"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://www.freshmeat.net/">Freshmeat</a> </td> <td height="20" bgcolor="#FFBA58" background="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/topmenu_BG.gif" width="10%" class="footer">   </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000"><img src="/web/20010815175207im_/http://www.musicbrainz.org/images/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="" border="0"></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="design" width="15%">   </td> <td align="center" class="design" width="70%"> Design|<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010815175207/http://syndicategrafix.com/">syndicategrafix.com</a> </td> <td align="right" class="design" width="15%"> Server version: 1.0.0-pre11 </td> </tr> </table> <br> </body> </html>

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