Tech question

[ptahm22]

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?

 

[FergusMacLeod]

I am not really sure if there is any way or program that you can use to do this, but manually. I will check something out and if I find out I will let you know.

 

[overcast]

I think there are some of the database applications for keeping the list of such data. And you can get this for free too. And so you'd have a lot of interesting output off it. Apart from that you can see that you should also take a look at the MS Access databasse as it can do the same.