[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“For music lovers who keep hundreds of digital song files on
their computers, trying to locate a specific track at the exact
moment they want to listen to it can be a headache.“Robert Kaye, founder of MusicBrainz, an open-source music
service that aggregates and organizes information about individual
music files, is trying to change that.“The service cleans up the ID3 tags that accompany each audio
file. ID3 tags hold the basic metadata of a file, including artist,
album, track name and number. MusicBrainz overwrites existing ID3
tags with clean metadata from its database. Then, an acoustic
fingerprint is assigned to each file, making the files easier to
locate…”