gusi;139786 Wrote: > A bandmembers or musicians tag(s) would be useful. > I'd hate to type them all in though. Do they exist in any of the > internet databases? I have only used EAC/FreeDB thus far.
Related artists and members of groups are available at a few sites; http://www.allmusic.com/ provides a reasonable collection, but I've seen quite a number of people question its accuracy, etc. Also, querying allmusic is a matter of page scraping which really isn't all that fun (or reliable). In the past I've uesd the 'mood' information from the allmusic site to create a whole new menu within SlimServer for browsing by the moods. However, the moods it provides are per-artist, not per track, and so whilst they might seem descriptive on the face of it, when taken as a whole within the context of a reasonable sized music collection they're not all that useful. http://gerph.org/diary/diary-aug.html#10_Aug_2006 has more information about the experiment. However, that's not quite related to what was being asked about. I had, a little while back, toyed with the idea of a plugin that let you traverse artist relations; so you could go to an artist and see a menu of the members, and from there you could go to groups that they have been in, and from there to the members of that group, and the groups they've been in, etc. Or the same for the 'similar groups'. I came to the conclusion that the best way to do it would be to write a special server to provide the relational information, rather than to put the information either into every file as an ID3v2 frame, or within the local directory structure. Then I went and did something else. -- gerph ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gerph's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1819 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27903 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
