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Check out ConcertMaster for Spotify and Concertino for Apple Music. They have pretty good database of classical music that acts as an overlay for Spotify/Apple Music, essentially fixing the tags for a lot of composers/works.

The data is also available separately at https://openopus.org/

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Wow open opus is what I have been looking for for a long time! Thanks!

This is what I once tried to build, but stopped as I encountered too many unknowns: https://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/fxsg8s/disc...

If open opus could be extended with such kind of metadata, that would be incredibly valuable.

I tried out ConcertMaster, and I really like the ability to see works organized by type. But the database seems very, very small? There's almost no baroque or renaissance music here beyond the big names like Bach, Biber, and Vivaldi, for example.

This is great. Anyone know of something similar for jazz? Being able to see the full personnel of recordings and explore based on that would be amazing (actually it would be cool for rock too).

Are you familiar with the Musicbrainz database? [1]

What features (if any) are missing that would make it more useful for you as a listener? I'm not affiliated with them but I'm interested in building apps in this area, to make art and music easier to explore and navigate

[1] https://musicbrainz.org

Nope haven't seen it. If the data is reasonably complete, it looks great.

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