Tech Question - Matching Songs w/ Genres
 

Hi Music Banter Community

I have a large list of songs and artists (about 250K+ entries). And I’d like to populate this table with their corresponding genres and years.

Because everything is text, I can’t use CD-based meta data to pull the results.

It’s also tough to find the “earliest’ release dates since many songs are re-released every few years.

I can often find this information by hand on sites like Discogs, AllMusic, iTunes, and MusicBrainz.

But I was wondering if there was an easier way to populate my list with the most accurate genre/year data?

Thanks in advance,

-George

Get some corresponding data with which you can correlate genre and year data? Other than that I don't see how you'll be able to easily correlate it. Genre can vary wildly by artist and song even if you did figure out a way to categorize them by relation or some such. Good luck though.

thnx.