erland;567068 Wrote: > [b]There are also commercial pretty expensive solutions like > allmusic.com which from what I've heard mostly focus on B2B > integrations besides their web site, unfortunately this will make it > harder to have any discussion with them with only community > representatives.Erland, there seems to be an overriding assumption here that > integrating something like Rovi's allmusic.com metadata is by definition an expensive exercise. I agree they're aimed predominantly at B2B, but there are real examples where they've licensed their metadata in a B2C context also. One such example is 'SoundHound' (http://www.soundhound.com/) whicxh grants you the user a perpetual license to access the underlying metadata via SoundHound for the princely sum of a once off payment of $4.99.
For that once off payment you have access to song recognition technology (and it's bloody accurate), artist biography, album cover, discography, top songs, similar artists etc. etc. via the SoundHound app. It's really worth downloading the freebie to check it out - the demo is fully functional for recognition of 5 tracks per month, and it'll give you a good idea of what's on offer. The point I'm trying to make is that Rovi's licensing cannot be that prohibitive if a user can get perpetual access for a once-off payment of five bucks. I'd suggest the addition/ incorporation of allmusic's metadata, playlisting, recommendation, audio recognition technologies (incl fingerprinting) be investigated before writing off the notion. If this functionality were incorporated on an opt-in, paid basis I've no doubt many would opt-in because it would speak directly to so many of the things discussed in this thread. -- audiomuze '*puddletag: A tag editor for Linux (that happens to run on OS X)*' (http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ audiomuze's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33613 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80910 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
