OneMusicAPI Simplifies Music Metadata Collection by Eric Carter.
From the post:
Elsten software, digital music organizer, has announced OneMusicAPI. Proclaimed to be “OneMusicAPI to rule them all,” the API acts as a music metadata aggregator that pulls from multiple sources across the web through a single interface. Elsten founder and OneMusicAPI creator, Dan Gravell, found keeping pace with constant changes from individual sources became too tedious a process to adequately organize music.
Currently covers over three million albums but only returns cover art.
Other data will be added but when and to what degree isn’t clear.
When launched, pricing plans will be available.
A lesson that will need to be reinforced from time to time.
Collation of data/information consumes time and resources.
To encourage collation, collators need to be paid.
If you need an example of what happens without paid collators, search your favorite search engine for the term “collator.”
Depending on how you count “sameness,” I get eight or nine different notions of collator from mine.