I love every genre of music and regret that there's no open web resource that is obsessively paranoid about its content. That's why I'm launching this site. If you get to like it, please consider donating.
Have you ever wondered if there's this one and only music database that contains no errors at all? Believe me, there isn't. The collective mind is supposed to solve this problem. That's why I wrote some piece of code, which compares tracklists from different sources (amg, discogs, musicbrainz, rym and wiki) and indicates inconsistencies. This simple tool helps me avoid typos on my site.
This script doesn't just compare text strings sign by sign, it analyzes tracklists and looks for common word structures. The following strings will be considered the same, though they don't look identic:
To Know Him Is to Love Him (feat. Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
To Know Him Is to Love Him (with Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt)
Willy and the Poor Boys (40th Anniversary Edition)
Willy and the Poor Boys - 40th Anniversary Edition
The Ride (Pt. II)
The Ride (Part 2)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Ayub's Song / As You Were
a. Ayub's Song b. As You Were
Music for Films Volume 2
Music for Films, Vol. 2
If you find a mistake in the tracklists on this site, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU $50. If this site gains your support, THE AMOUNT OF THE REWARD WILL BE INCREASED.
Another useful functionality of the code is Capitalization Rules application on several European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Irish and Icelandic.
Bird on a Wire
Keep On Loving You
Hole in the Sun
Come In Stranger
Down by the Sea
Drop By and Stay
Ice on the Dune
Put On Your Wig
Samba do Gringo Paulista
Where Do You Go
La Danse du Bonheur
Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
Look at the following zoomed pictures. Which one do you like best? I prefer images of the third type. Unfortunately, they are extremely scarce.
That's the second reason this project is being started — to collect high quality artwork. Most sites with covers don't care about the quality and sometimes even degrade it on purpose, some of them have restrictions on dimensions (600 x 600), and some of them won't let you in if you were born in the wrong country. That's all unfair, don't you think?