Originally started in the mod forum thread of the same
name, started by
MR_E. Current thread is
here.
If it isn't noted, the site is written in English.
Sources for writing credits and the like
You can look up songwriters and composers via these online databases.
These databases are not always a 100% match for what's printed on a
release; they show the names of people who are currently designated to
collect royalties. When searching, you may have better luck searching
for partial matches, and experiment with omitting punctuation.
- hotdiscomix: Remix
Services -
selected services like Disconet, Hot Tracks, Ultimix, etc.
- Wangdangdula - Selective but very
comprehensive 7" artists and labels discographies in blues, R&B, and
early rock'n'roll.
- Color Radio - Database for music
from the 50's/60's (doo wop, 60's rock, rhythm & blues, soul, ...)
Country and Western
Electronic genres and styles
- NetHymnal - A very comprehensive database
linking hymn writers to their hymns along with thousands of
biographies and images.
- Hymnary - A comprehensive database
detailing hymn writers, hymns and more. Many thousands of entries
exist here.
- Jazz Discography Project - Discography
and complete sessionographies for selected major jazz artists and
labels, 1950's til present.
- Jazz Standards - lyrics and music
credits, limited to the standards (a standard is a composition
that is held in continuing esteem and is commonly used in musical
repertoires, e.g., as the basis of jazz arrangements and
improvisations)
- Redhotjazz - 78 RPM Jazz
discographies, searchable by label and bands.
- LondonJazzCollector
Reggae, Dance Hall, Soca and associated styles
- The Holy Hip Hop Database - A database
focusing on Hip Hop and Rap in the Christian market (as of 2014,
over 3,000 releases and almost 1,000 artists have been cataloged)
- Soulfulkindamusic - Mainly 7"
records discographies for major, classic era soul & R&B artists,
groups and labels.
- Danpop - Danish releases. Comprehensive
discography for national labels as well as Danish versions of
international labels releases, 1950's and 1960's only.
Finland
Netherlands
Poland
- ANORMUS A Nordic Music Guide
(SE/EN) - by Popöga, Swedish
music zine since 1990, covering music from Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway, Sweden or the Faeroes
- Progg.se (SE) Alternativ Musik I Sverige
1967-1984
- Punktipset (SE) Svensk Punk, Powerpop,
Ska, NY Vag Och Rock 1977-1986
- Svensk Mediedatabas -
The Swedish Media Database (SMDB) - search service for the
audiovisual collections at the National Library of Sweden (KB)
- Marmalade Skies - British
psychedelia of the 60s. Also occasional Prog Rock, Folk-Rock,
Glam-Rock and Australasian psych.
Label-specific discographies and info
- Lazlo's Discography
Machine - ABC, The
Beloved, Colourbox and M/A/R/R/S, Michael Cretu, Enigma, Sandra,
Trance Atlantic Air Waves, and Hubert KaH...
- The Music Discographies of
bjbear71.com - Kai Winding, Claudio Slon,
Walter Wanderley, Henry Mancini, João Donato, Antonio Carlos
Jobim...
- Hank Williams
Discography -
Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Carter Family, Kitty Wells
- Archive.org - home to the
Wayback Machine, moderately useful for finding additional
information on slightly older submissions, from websites that are
now defunct or have removed useful pages.
- Free Translation - including the
major European languages, Russian, Japanese, and both Simplified and
Traditional Chinese
- Google language tools
- Babelfish by Altavista; like
google's, but better
- Word Reference - good for trying to
figure out odd words, if automagic translation systems don't do
well, or English isn't your native tongue
- Dictionary.Reference.com -
helpful for figuring out some odd credits
- Merriam-Webster Online - another dictionary
- Reddit/translator -
translation help at Reddit
- Online OCR - Free optical character
recognition software]
- TypeIt - Type accent marks, diacritics and
other characters
- Copypastecharacter.com
- Windows Alt Key
Codes
- Shapecatcher - Unicode character
recognition
- Jing - Allows screen grabs
with diagrams and publishes content with one click to either a
public or private folder, automatically adding the hyperlink to your
clip board.
- PhotoFiltre - Free
easy to use image editor
- URL Clean - Extract a direct link from a
Google result URL.