Comments on: Portable Playlist and other POSH-ibilities Meetup http://kveton.com/blog/2007/12/13/portable-playlist-and-other-posh-ibilities-meetup/ Husband, father, geek, pizza maker & bacon lover Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Chris http://kveton.com/blog/2007/12/13/portable-playlist-and-other-posh-ibilities-meetup/#comment-77308 Chris Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:48:19 +0000 http://kveton.com/blog/2007/12/13/portable-playlist-and-other-posh-ibilities-meetup/#comment-77308 In an ideal world, following <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-webarch-20041215/#uri-aliases" rel="nofollow">web principles</a>, shouldn't every piece of music have <a href="http://chrisfjay.blogspot.com/2007/04/music-and-url.html" rel="nofollow">just one URI</a> - e.g. www.beatles.com/lovely_rita? Using OpenID, the composer could assert authorship rights. It doesn't stop anyone from using (e.g. via the HTML5 <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-video.html#audio" rel="nofollow">audio</a> src attribute) the music in another page or feed. The question is how we could get there; it seems a bit far off! But following this line of thinking certainly leads to interesting business plans... In an ideal world, following web principles, shouldn’t every piece of music have just one URI - e.g. http://www.beatles.com/lovely_rita?

Using OpenID, the composer could assert authorship rights. It doesn’t stop anyone from using (e.g. via the HTML5 audio src attribute) the music in another page or feed.

The question is how we could get there; it seems a bit far off! But following this line of thinking certainly leads to interesting business plans…

]]> By: Simon Reinhardt http://kveton.com/blog/2007/12/13/portable-playlist-and-other-posh-ibilities-meetup/#comment-77131 Simon Reinhardt Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:53:13 +0000 http://kveton.com/blog/2007/12/13/portable-playlist-and-other-posh-ibilities-meetup/#comment-77131 >> Or is this all just Musicbrainz I’m talking about here? Yes, MusicBrainz is exactly that. It's a metadatabase for song/track/artist information (and more) edited by the community in a wiki-like way (an they're willing to do so since several years already). It provides unique identifiers for all the bits and pieces of music to be re-used in other catalogues. The audio signatures are actually just a small part of what it's all about. >> Or is this all just Musicbrainz I’m talking about here?

Yes, MusicBrainz is exactly that. It’s a metadatabase for song/track/artist information (and more) edited by the community in a wiki-like way (an they’re willing to do so since several years already). It provides unique identifiers for all the bits and pieces of music to be re-used in other catalogues. The audio signatures are actually just a small part of what it’s all about.

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