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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Fort Lauderdale /ˌfɔərt ˈlɔːdərdeɪl/ is a city in the U. S. state of Florida,28 miles north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County, as of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census. The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average temperature of 75.5 °F and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, the district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012, greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants,63 golf courses,12 shopping malls,16 museums,132 nightclubs,278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts. Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War, the forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale, younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort, however, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century. The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the New River Settlement before the 20th century, in the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6,1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children. The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, the fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County, Fort Lauderdales first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob, a group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery
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Florida
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Florida /ˈflɒrᵻdə/ is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U. S. states. Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States, the Miami metropolitan area is Floridas most populous urban area. The city of Tallahassee is the state capital, much of the state is at or near sea level and is characterized by sedimentary soil. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south, the American alligator, American crocodile, Florida panther, and manatee can be found in the Everglades National Park. It was a location of the Seminole Wars against the Native Americans. Today, Florida is distinctive for its large Cuban expatriate community and high population growth, the states economy relies mainly on tourism, agriculture, and transportation, which developed in the late 19th century. Florida is also renowned for amusement parks, orange crops, the Kennedy Space Center, Florida has attracted many writers such as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams, and continues to attract celebrities and athletes. It is internationally known for golf, tennis, auto racing, by the 16th century, the earliest time for which there is a historical record, major Native American groups included the Apalachee, the Timucua, the Ais, the Tocobaga, the Calusa and the Tequesta. Florida was the first part of the continental United States to be visited and settled by Europeans, the earliest known European explorers came with the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León. Ponce de León spotted and landed on the peninsula on April 2,1513 and he named the region La Florida. The story that he was searching for the Fountain of Youth is a myth, in May 1539, Conquistador Hernando de Soto skirted the coast of Florida, searching for a deep harbor to land. He described seeing a wall of red mangroves spread mile after mile, some reaching as high as 70 feet. Very soon, many smokes appeared along the whole coast, billowing against the sky, the Spanish introduced Christianity, cattle, horses, sheep, the Spanish language, and more to Florida. Both the Spanish and French established settlements in Florida, with varying degrees of success, in 1559, Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano established a settlement at present-day Pensacola, making it the first attempted settlement in Florida, but it was abandoned by 1561. Spain maintained tenuous control over the region by converting the tribes to Christianity. The area of Spanish Florida diminished with the establishment of English settlements to the north, the English attacked St. Augustine, burning the city and its cathedral to the ground several times. Florida attracted numerous Africans and African-Americans from adjacent British colonies who sought freedom from slavery, in 1738, Governor Manuel de Montiano established Fort Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose near St
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Metalcore
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Metalcore is a broad fusion genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The word is a blend of the names of the two genres, among other genres blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages that are conducive to moshing. Pantera and Sepultura have been influential to the development of metalcore in the 2000s. Black Flag and Bad Brains, among the originators of hardcore, British street punk groups such as Discharge and the Exploited also took inspiration from heavy metal. The Misfits put out the Earth A. D. album, nonetheless, punk and metal cultures and music remained fairly separate through the first half of the 1980s. Cross-pollination between metal and hardcore eventually birthed the crossover thrash scene, which gestated at a Berkeley club called Ruthies, the term metalcore was originally used to refer to these crossover groups. Hardcore punk groups Corrosion of Conformity, D. R. I. and Suicidal Tendencies played alongside thrash metal groups like Metallica and Slayer. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York hardcore, which began in 1984. The Cro-Mags were among the most influential of these bands, drawing equally from Bad Brains, Motörhead, Cro-Mags also embraced straight edge and Krishna consciousness. Another New York metal-influenced straight edge group of time period is the Crumbsuckers. 1985 saw the development of the breakdown, an amalgamation of Bad Brains reggae and metal backgrounds. Agnostic Fronts 1986 album Cause for Alarm, a collaboration with Peter Steele, was a watershed in the intertwining of hardcore, between 1984 and 1995, a new wave of bands emerged. Hogans Heroes are the earliest metallic hardcore group and were formed in 1984. Other bands include Integrity, Biohazard, Hoods, Earth Crisis, Converge, Shai Hulud, All Out War, Madball, Starkweather, Judge, Strife, Rorschach, Vision of Disorder Hatebreed, and Disembodied. Integrity drew influence from the hardcore band G. I. S. M. Earth Crisis, Converge and Hatebreed borrowed from hardcore punk and death metal. Earth Crisiss 1995 album Destroy the Machines was particularly influential to the development of the genre, Biohazard, Coalesce and Overcast were also important early metalcore groups. Journalist Lars Gotrich wrote, Along with key records by The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch, at the risk of sounding too reductive — metalcore was the natural progression where extreme metal and hardcore met, but with spiraling time signatures that somehow felt more aggressive. Shai Huluds 1997 album Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion became especially influential in the part of the decade
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Damien Moyal
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Damien Moyal is a musician, designer and artist originally from Florida and now based in Michigan. He is best known within the genre for his distinctive vocals in the bands Shai Hulud, Culture, Morning Again. He has contributed to over 15 bands, though only a few have released any recorded work, Moyals first band was US Decline. During his time in the band never recorded but did play shows. He soon after moved on to stints in Insist, Reach. In 1994 he joined Culture, who had recorded a demo tape and were looking for a vocalist. The band landed a contract with Conquer the World Records. Not long after the release of the LP, conflicts between Moyal and John Wylie led to his leaving of the band and he then went on to front in the very first line-up of Shai Hulud, recording their original demo, landing the record deal with Revelation Records. However, before the band got to record any further material, by late 1995, Wylie had also left Culture and was forming his new band, Morning Again. Moyal was asked to join in hopes of reconciliation and this was the inspiration for the song Turning Over from their debut The Cleanest War. The band grew to become the first American band on Good Life Recordings, during this time, he also joined up with Crestfallens reincarnation as Bird of Ill Omen. After this he joined the band Wayside, who changed its name to As Friends Rust. After being kicked out of Morning Again, he rejoined Culture, using his connections with Good Life Records, he focused the attention to Culture who gained popularity in Europe during the next two years. Steve Looker from Morning Again wanted desperately to get As Friends Rust back together and this became Moyals sole band during the next two years until they went under a second hiatus. Bridgeburne R was then formed as a 1980s punk band, until As Friends Rust got back together, with a new line-up of AFR musicians, the band lasted two more years but Damien quit right before their final release on Equal Vision Records. Damien immediately started witting solo under his pseudonym Damien Done, in 2003 he was featured on the Pandabite song “Painkiller” which was a never officially released. He was also featured on albums by Loyal Frisby and Grey Goose and his last band effort was with Best Wishes in 2006 before he moved to Michigan. In 2008, As Friends Rust reunited for one week of shows to much fanfare, in 2011, Moyal announced that new As Friends Rust songs were being written, and also formed a new hardcore project with former Culture founder Rich Thurston called On Bodies
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Straight edge
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Straight edge is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco and other recreational drugs, in reaction to the excesses of punk subculture. For some, this extends to refraining from engaging in sex, following a vegetarian or vegan diet. The term straight edge was adopted from the 1981 song Straight Edge by the punk band Minor Threat. Straight edge emerged amid the early-1980s hardcore punk scene, since then, a wide variety of beliefs and ideas have been associated with some members of the movement, including vegetarianism and animal rights. Ross Haenfler writes that as of the late 1990s, approximately three out of four straight edge participants were vegetarian or vegan, disagreements often arise as to the primary reasons for living straight edge. Straight edge politics are primarily left-wing and revolutionary but there have been conservative offshoots, in 1999, William Tsitsos wrote that straight edge had gone through three eras since its founding in the early 1980s. Bent edge began as a counter-movement to straight edge by members of the Washington, D. C. hardcore scene who were frustrated by the rigidity and intolerance in the scene. During the youth crew era, which started in the mid-1980s, by the early 1990s, militant straight edge was a well-known part of the wider punk scene. In the early to mid-1990s, straight edge spread from the United States to Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, by the beginning of the 2000s, militant straight edge punks had largely left the broader straight edge culture and movement. While some straight edge groups are treated as a gang by law enforcement officials, Straight edge has often been approached with skepticism and hostility, despite the ideologically less dogmatic and more multifaceted character of contemporary straight edge. In the 1970s, the subculture was associated with the use of intoxicative inhalants. In 1999, William Tsitsos wrote that straight edge had gone through three eras since its founding in the early 1980s, later analysts have identified another era that has taken place since Tsitsoss writing. Straight edge grew out of punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Straight edge individuals of this era often associated with the original punk ideals such as individualism, disdain for work and school. Straight edge sentiments can be found in songs by the early 1980s band Minor Threat and this anti-inebriation movement had been developing in punk prior to Minor Threat, but their song Straight Edge was influential in giving the scene a name, and something of a figurehead. Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye is often credited with birthing the Straight edge name and movement, Straight edge sentiments can also be found in the song Keep it Clean by English punk band The Vibrators, and the 1970s Modern Lovers song Im Straight. As one of the few prominent 1970s hard rock icons to explicitly eschew alcohol and drug use, Straight edge started on the East Coast of the United States in Washington D. C. and quickly spread throughout the United States and Canada. By the 1980s, bands on the West Coast, such as Americas Hardcore, Stalag 13, Justice League, in the early stages of this subcultures history, concerts often consisted of both punk bands and straight edge bands
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Veganism
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Veganism is both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A follower of either the diet or the philosophy is known as a vegan, distinctions are sometimes made between several categories of veganism. Dietary vegans refrain from consuming animal products, not only meat but also eggs, dairy products and other animal-derived substances. The term ethical vegan is often applied to those who not only follow a diet but extend the philosophy into other areas of their lives. Donald Watson coined the term vegan in 1944 when he co-founded the Vegan Society in England, at first he used it to mean non-dairy vegetarian, but from 1951 the society defined it as the doctrine that man should live without exploiting animals. Interest in veganism increased in the 2010s, more vegan stores opened, and vegan options became increasingly available in supermarkets and restaurants in many countries. Well-planned vegan diets can reduce the risk of some types of chronic disease and they are regarded as appropriate for all stages of the life-cycle by the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The German Society for Nutrition cautions against vegan diets for children, because uncontaminated plant foods do not provide vitamin B12, researchers agree that vegans should eat B12-fortified foods or take a supplement. The origin of the English term vegetarian is unknown, the earliest known use is attributed to the actress Fanny Kemble, writing around 1839 in Georgia in the United States. The practice can be traced to Indus valley civilization in 3300 -1300 BCE Ancient India, the earliest known vegan was the Arab poet Al-Maʿarri. Vegetarianism established itself as a significant movement in 19th-century England and the United States, a minority of vegetarians avoided animal food entirely. Lambe called animal food an habitual irritation, and argued that ilk eating and flesh eating are but branches of a common system, and they must stand or fall together. Sylvester Grahams meatless Graham diet—mostly fruit, vegetables, water, several vegan communities were established around this time. In 1843 members of Alcott House created the British and Foreign Society for the Promotion of Humanity and Abstinence from Animal Food, led by Sophia Chichester, Alcott House also helped to establish the British Vegetarian Society, which held its first meeting in 1847 in Ramsgate, Kent. Belongs to the more moderate division. The first known vegan cookbook, Rupert H. Wheldons No Animal Food, the consumption of milk and eggs became a battleground over the following decades. There were regular discussions about it in the Vegetarian Messenger, it appears from the pages that many opponents of veganism came from within the vegetarian community. This lent support to the position, although Gandhi himself drank goats milk
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Cooper City, Florida
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Cooper City is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city is named for Morris Cooper, who founded the community in 1959, the citys population was 28,547 at the 2010 census. Cooper City is part of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010 census. In 2006, with the annexation of the Waldrep Dairy Farm and it was expected the addition of the 530-acre property would add upwards of 4,000 new residents through 2011. It has been rated as one of the top 10 towns for families by Family Circle magazine, Cooper City is located at 26°02′41″N 80°17′22″W. The city is bounded by Davie to the north, Pembroke Pines to the south, both Hollywood and Davie to the east, and Southwest Ranches to the west. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 8.3 square miles. As of 2010, there were 9,912 households out of which 2. 9% were vacant. In 2000,51. 5% had children under the age of 18 living with them,70. 8% were married couples living together,11. 9% had a householder with no husband present. 10. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 3. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 3.06 and the average family size was 3.30. In 2000, the city the population was out with 31. 3% under the age of 18,6. 3% from 18 to 24,30. 2% from 25 to 44,25. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.8 males, in 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $75,166, and the median income for a family was $78,172. Males had an income of $51,931 versus $33,788 for females. The per capita income for the city was $27,474, about 2. 9% of families and 3. 2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3. 2% of those under age 18 and 4. 7% of those age 65 or over. As of 2000, English was spoken as a first language by 78. 55% of the population, while Spanish was spoken by 15. 08%, and Hebrew speakers made up 1. 25% of all residents. Other mother tongues included languages such as both French and Malayalam making up 0. 75% of residents, as well as Italian being at 0. 69%, Embassy Creek Elementary is an elementary school located in Cooper City that teaches grades K-5. The school is a member of the Broward School District and it is an A school and is currently ranked number 36 out of about 3000 schools in the state of Florida for 2011
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Shoulder (band)
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Bryan Webb, sometimes credited as Bry Webb, is a Canadian singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the indie rock band Constantines. Webb began his career playing in the emo band Shoulder in 1995. In 2007 he recorded a cover of The Velvet Undergrounds Oh, sweet Nuthin as a duet with Casey Mecija of Ohbijou for the compilation album, Friends in Bellwoods. In 2009, Webb received a Genie Award nomination in the category Best Achievement in Music – Original Song for Big Smoke, while living in Montreal, Webb formed the Harbourcoats and recorded an album. In 2009 Webb and his wife decided to start a family in Guelph, feist heard the Harbourcoats album and invited him to duet on her album. Webb provided back-up vocals on her album Metals, including the first track The Bad in Each Other, with the announced hiatus 12 August 2010 of the Constantines, Webb embraced his new role as a newlywed and father. His debut solo album Provider was released 15 November 2011 on Toronto label Idée Fixe Records, the first single, Rivers of Gold, was inspired by the Constantines first time playing the Dawson City Music Festival in the Yukon in 2005. Webb is also the director for CFRU-FM, the campus radio station at the University of Guelph. Webb contributed the song Someplace Im Supposed to Be to the 1 March 2013 episode of This American Life, Music of Canada Canadian rock List of Canadian musicians Constantines official site at Arts & Crafts Bryan Webb at CBC Radio 3
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Myspace
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Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of March 2017, Myspace was ranked 3,178 by total Web traffic, Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and RockYou, among others. Despite an overall decline, in 2015 Myspace still had 50.6 million unique visitors and has a pool of nearly 1 billion active and inactive registered users. In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees, in June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million. In August 2003, several employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic the popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of Myspace was ready for launch, a complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan, who managed Chris DeWolfe, Josh Berman, Tom Anderson, the first Myspace users were eUniverse employees. The company held contests to see who could sign up the most users, eUniverse used its 20 million users and e-mail subscribers to breathe life into Myspace, and move it to the head of the pack of social networking websites. A key architect was tech expert Toan Nguyen who helped stabilize the Myspace platform when Brad Greenspan asked him to join the team. Despite over ten times the number of developers, Friendster, which was developed in JavaServer Pages, could not keep up with the speed of development of Myspace and cfm. The MySpace. com domain was owned by YourZ. com, Inc. intended until 2002 for use as an online data storage. By 2004, it was transitioned from a storage service to a social networking site. A friend, who worked in the data storage business. DeWolfe suggested they charge a fee for the basic Myspace service, Brad Greenspan nixed the idea, believing that keeping Myspace free was necessary to make it a successful community. Myspace quickly gained popularity among teenage and young adult social groups, in February 2005, DeWolfe held talks with Mark Zuckerberg over acquiring Facebook but DeWolfe rejected Zuckerbergs $75 million asking price
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MusicBrainz
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MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the placed on the Compact Disc Database. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a compact disc metadata storehouse to become an open online database for music. MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and these entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the date and country. As of 26 July 2016, MusicBrainz contained information about roughly 1.1 million artists,1.6 million releases, end-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community is in charge for maintaining and reviewing the data, besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint. A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, must be used for this, in 2000, MusicBrainz started using Relatables patented TRM for acoustic fingerprint matching. This feature attracted many users and allowed the database to grow quickly, however, by 2005 TRM was showing scalability issues as the number of tracks in the database had reached into the millions. This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP, tRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. In October 2009 MusicIP was acquired by AmpliFIND, some time after the acquisition, the MusicDNS service began having intermittent problems. Since the future of the free service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský, while AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes, storing these 8 times per second, additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns. The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity, since 2003, MusicBrainzs core data are in the public domain, and additional content, including moderation data, is placed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 license. The relational database management system is PostgreSQL, the server software is covered by the GNU General Public License. The MusicBrainz client software library, libmusicbrainz, is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, in December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye
