Is there a free database or web service api for music information (albums, artists, tracks)?

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river picture river · Oct 21, 2010 · Viewed 74.3k times · Source

I need to look up artist/album/track information for song titles.

Is there a free database I could download or a open source web service/api I could use?

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Chris Gomez picture Chris Gomez · Oct 21, 2010

Try the last.fm api at http://www.last.fm/api.

If that doesn't work for you, you can look at the various APIs listed in this search result: http://www.programmableweb.com/category/music/api

This is a Silverlight tutorial, but since this is an HTTP REST API, it could seem agnostic to you to get started: http://www.devx.com/VisualStudio/Article/40158.

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