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Whilst it is great to be able to tag music files with masses of MB metadata, I have a feeling that the true value of the MB database has yet to be realised.

Because of the underlying design and relationships between albums and recordings and musical pieces (or works), once it reaches some level of critical mass you can start to mine the data for things like:

Who has recorded versions of Vivaldi's Four Seasons Spring in London?

Which artists have recorded both Greig's Piano Concerto and Chopsticks?

Who has recorded "A Day in the Life" other than by the Beatles?

MB is a victim primarily of its own success - with a lot of Kodi clients requesting data as well as MB's own tagger, Picard - but also of spammers leeching bandwidth.

This is not the first occasion when demand has exceeded capacity, but any capacity added soon gets swallowed up.

Suffice it to say that the MB team is urgently looking into how to stop this happening.