SecondHandSongs
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SecondHandSongs (or Second Hand Songs) is a collaborative website that maintains a global database of mainly cover versions of original works. It also contains information about adaptations and samples. The website allows performers and volunteer curators to add songs and update their metadata. It includes links to freely accessible recordings of the covers, and external identifiers for those works and performances in other databases.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Data and uses
- Data schema and identifiers
- Derived datasets
- See also
- References
- External links
SecondHandSongs (or Second Hand Songs) is a collaborative website that maintains a global database of mainly cover versions of original works. It also contains information about adaptations and samples. The website allows performers and volunteer curators to add songs and update their metadata. It includes links to freely accessible recordings of the covers, and external identifiers for those works and performances in other databases.
As of 2021, it included roughly a million covers of 100,000 original works, and was cross-referenced by MusicBrainz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SecondHandSongs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.