MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
A related site - freesound.org<p>Both MusicBrainz and Freesound are truly international in scope. They cover metadata and sound for Indian classical music and such genres too. The CompMusic research team publishes to both of these.<p>Edit: CompMusic url - <a href="http://compmusic.upf.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://compmusic.upf.edu/</a>