![]() Wikipedia proves that if you provide the community with a valuable resource of authoritative enough information, the community will roll up its sleeves and tend the garden.īut it's not valuable enough, not authoritative enough. Next, open it up for community editing, Wikipedia style. Store ALL incoming genres associated to tracks, but only actually 'ascribe' the, say, 5 or 10 most frequently attributed. ![]() "264 out of 45,843 listeners of 'Cat Stevens' give him 2 stars."įor record companies, clear metrics - for music lovers, clear indicators of quality. "1,275 out of 134,548 listeners of 'Wild World' give it 4 stars." First, capture and relationally store all ratings. Cynics in the room are already screaming "yeah, valuable to music companies!", but I rather think "yeah, valuable to music lovers!". Similarly, if Scrobbler relayed the genres and ratings *I*, and everyone else, set for tracks, not only would they have a potential headache on their hands, but more importantly, they would have some VERY valuable information. This is already problematic due to typos, misspellings, differing entry methods - "Cat Stevens", "Stevens, Cat", "Caht Stebenz" - but can be moderated. So, I assume Scrobbler is only relaying track and artist names. The ID3 spec makes room for lots of information, but let's stick with the aforementioned four, since things like "Track number", "Track length" and their ilk are too contextual (which album it's off of, how the track was encoded) to be really useful in a "sharing environment". I am too tired to do a TCP dump so I don't know what iScrobbler is telling the mothership exactly but I would like to think it's sending MORE than just artist and track name. So, iScrobbler watches iTunes and tells AudioScrobbler/last.fm what I am listening to. "Don't pigeonhole my music man!" Anyways. Wouldn't want to be responsible for what happened to Curt Cobain, you know. Most of my music has pretty clean ID3 tags: artist name, track name, album name, star rating, genre. Let's stick with the MP3 example for now. On the FileSystem/OS level, such things as Date Created, Date Modified, File Type - could be useful on the Applications level, well, for instance iTunes (or any MP3 player for that matter) has a very clearly defined ontology: it's called ID3. Say I share that information and/or file with a community style site.įor many of my files - most in fact -, there already are ontologies, as I've mentioned before. Say I have a bunch of files that I have, one way or another, already tagged with pertinent, non-private, information. ![]() Thinking hard about tags - the new black as Ado says - and various conversations I've had recently, mostly with Karl, about ontologies, explicit relationships (hah!), etc. ![]()
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