Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Musicbrainz and RB

[David Scotson <davidscotson mac com>]

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 07:13  pm, Joshua Haberman wrote:

> Since TRMs can have collisions, is there a namespace of identifiers 
> that can unambiguously identify a particular song on a particular 
> album?  If so, it would be nice if this identifier was written to the 
> song's metadata and recognized by RB, so each song can be easily 
> looked up in the MB database at a later time.

There is, see http://www.musicbrainz.org/docs/specs/metadata_tags.html

Musicbrainz has unique identifiers for the song, album and artist that 
are added to  id3/vorbis tags to save re-identification.

An example track can be seen here:
http://www.musicbrainz.org/showtrack.html?trackid=574574

cheers,

dave