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...t;non authoritative" answers in your query? If so, you can write some scripts that talk CGI to a commercial music vendor. I use a (no longer available) MP3 tagger called "MP3 Internet Renamer". It would go out and request a web page from the "All Music Guide" ( http://www.allmusic.com/ ). The application will then parse out information for the tags. The tagger is no longer available (and was closed source anyways) so you'll need to write your own regular expressions/parser, but this is very doable using a lightweight web browser such as "links" (or lynx, w...

...ensed by. > > > If so, you can write some scripts that talk CGI to a > commercial music vendor. I use a (no longer available) MP3 > tagger called "MP3 Internet Renamer". It would go out and > request a web page from the "All Music Guide" ( > http://www.allmusic.com/ ). > > Sounds good. My skills aren't up to it, but there is only one way to > learn... > > > The application will then parse out information for the > tags. The tagger is no longer available (and was closed > source anyways) so you'll need to write you...

...und underground music scenes. Anyone can get into the party, as long as it's being held online. There will still be old- fashioned record store clerk snobbery about who knows or doesn't know about which seminal band, but the sheer quantity of knowledge available at sites such as UBL.com and AllMusic.com make it much easier for newbies to get in the know and up to speed. Exclusion is out, and everything else is in; the sooner people let go of the idea of the exclusive contract, exclusive distribution agreements, exclusionary formats, and insular music scenes, the more they'll get out of...