<snip> It shouldn't be forgotten that we (and the BBC) regularly don't play CDs at all, using playout systems, minidiscs (eurgh), or other more esoteric things from multiple studios. </snip> and again the problems of live performance...
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland Sent: 27 January 2007 23:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] Music, (meta)data, musicbrainz and the BBC On 1/26/07, Richard P Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The 128 character description could well be the ISRC code from the original label. It's not: it's in English, and is a description for the current artist. It goes onto DABtext and our player. The final number is, I suspect, actually a proper 'track ID' rather than the 'media ID' which I called a track ID earlier; but I'd not worry about it... If it is, then it contains a lot of those same details, and is unique across all manufactured CD's. I would also be surprised if you haven't come across these guys.... http://www.gracenote.com/prof_home.html They seem to have the Song ID database sown up. Problem with services like that is what happens when we play a CD that - isn't manufactured (i.e. is a CD-R that we've made) - isn't available in the shops (i.e. is a promo copy for radio only) - has the wrong information or badly typed info It shouldn't be forgotten that we (and the BBC) regularly don't play CDs at all, using playout systems, minidiscs (eurgh), or other more esoteric things from multiple studios. -- http://james.cridland.net/
