A personal music library manager and player with a focus on metadata, relationships, and insights.1
- Legato: "A smooth and connected manner of performance (as of music)" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
- Database: "A structured set of data held in computer storage and typically accessed or manipulated by means of specialized software" (Oxford English Dictionary)
- Windows 11+
- Discogs API consumer key and secret
- .NET 10+ (download or
choco install dotnet) - .NET SDK (download or
choco install dotnet-sdk) - Windows 11 SDK (download)
- A .NET IDE, e.g., Jetbrains Rider or Visual Studio
- Track: A single specific instance of a song, associated to a single audio file.
- Artist: A person or group of people who compose and/or perform music. A supertype with subtypes of "Individual" and "Group", where the Group is made up of artists who are also in the database as individuals.
- Album: A collection of tracks released together. There can be multiple editions of an album, so additional database fields identify the specific edition(s) in the collection.
- ISRC: International Standard Recording Code, a unique identifier for a single recording (a track). A recording is an instance of a work.
- ISWC: International Standard Work Code, a unique identifier for an individual musical composition. There can be multiple versions of a work, which take the form of different recordings or tracks.
- MBID: MusicBrainz Identifier, a unique identifier for an entity in the MusicBrainz database. MBIDs are also used by some other services, such as Setlist.fm.
- DID: Discogs Identifier, a unique identifier for an entity in the Discogs database.
Footnotes
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