Dr Lovegrove wrote:
Specially in Jazz the artist name is not at as meaningful as in rock.
Many artist name tags might be:
Oscar Peterson Trio
Oscar Peterson and Ben Webster
Duke Ellington and Oscar Peterson
etc etc
It would then be useful to be able to browse the resultset of a search
of artist names containing "Oscar Peterson".
I always thought an interesting plugin to write would be a 'related artist'
search which searches for any of the words in the currently playing
artist's
More that related artists (or even what AllMusic has with 'influenced
by) is just a listing of musicians on the track.
In Jazz, if you hear a great guitar part on an album of Saxophone, I
want to know who the guitarist is. And what albums s/he is on.
And listen to them, or buy them.
I could also see this for types of classical. Say you are listening to
Muti and the Philly Symph Orch doing a standard repertoire piece, say
Beethoven's Eroica, it would be great to be able to see both which
other conductors led the PSO on this, and which other orchestras had
recorded this with Muti
Now that 6.5 has MySql, it is fairly easy to add this, as long as we can
beat the scanner into not breaking the database. There can be critical
information that is not in the tags of the music.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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