Tagging Search Sites
Forum discussion topic for this list is here.
TODO:
- Quality, quantity and specialization (e.g. commercial, electronic, oldtimers, ...) of the information
- Cover quality (and size) and only front, or also label, inside, back?
- Indication of usability for automatic taggers (e.g. MM Search scripts)
- Layout improvements (use icons instead of common descriptions, use more columns, nicer table style, ...)
Multiple tag information
| Website | Comments |
|---|---|
| All Music | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Very good quality, includes front cover. |
| Amazon.com | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Good quality, includes front cover. |
| Amazon.co.uk | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Good quality, includes front cover. |
| Amazon.ca | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Good quality, includes front cover. |
| Amazon.de | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Good quality, includes front cover. |
| Amazon.fr | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Good quality, includes front cover. |
| Amazon.co.jp | Huge collection, mostly popular and classical. Good quality, includes front cover. |
| Gracenote CDDB | |
| MusicDNS | |
| MusicBrainz | |
| FreeDB | |
| Rate Your Music | For old vinyl releases, LPs and Singles. |
| Discogs | For electronic and DJ music. Includes front cover. |
| Juno Records | For electronic music. Large artwork. |
| CIAO! | |
| Swiss Charts | |
| CDNow | |
| CD Universe | |
| Wikipedia |
LRC Lyrics Only
| Website | Comments |
|---|---|
| LrcDB | Extensive. Search on lyrics text, artist, title. Single letter index. With preview. Ability to upload (once registered). |
| AllLyrics | Quite extensive. No search capabilities. Single letter index. |
| LrcLyrics | Few. No search capabilities. Multi-letter index. |
| Lyrics | Very few. Simple file listing. |
Covers Only
| Website | Comments |
|---|---|
| Album Art | (Amazon covers) Good quality. Minimum 300px. |
| Google Images | Various. Good quality. |
| Yahoo! Images | Various. Good quality. |
| Urban Covers | |
| Mega Search | |
| Cover Paradise | Clean site. German, but easy to use nonetheless. |
| Free Covers | Huge collection. Ability to upload (once registered). |
| AllCdCovers | |
| iTunes | |
| CdCovers | |
| Cover Heaven | |
| Epiclectic | For older music. |
| Flickr | |
| Kompakt Kiste | All kinds of electronic music (not euro-dance or other chart-electronics) Large artwork. |
