On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Richard Cutts <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/1 Mario García H. <[email protected]> >> >> I think the most important issue with artists is trying to catalogue them >> with >> various keywords instead of just one: ie. Depending on the user >> selected language >> if that is the case. >> >> Going further, there should be a voting alike system so that users say >> whether >> an artist name is duplicated or misspelled -then redirecting to the artist >> main >> page or name- in the best tradition of Wikipedia disambiguation. > > > Couldn't Libre.fm just use MusicBrainz for this kind of thing? > I thought about the same thing: Musicbrainz may help with duplicates like the Punk band Crisis and the Metal band Crisis or duplicates of the very same band like Malón and Malon. Also allowing to have standard names if the database handles musicbrainz codes instead of plain names.
Though, I don't know if a musicbrainz wrapper would have enough brain for understanding whether the so called "average Joe" will make an irreversible mistake like opening a new database registry every time an archive 01)-\My-music-mmadona-idont_remember-the-song.aac is issued. Just as last.fm currently does [...] Unless unknown registries get numerically counted but not registered in the list of played songs and the user is notified of the error: (A more neat programming experience but "user experience" killing approach IMHO) Just see the recent case of that program sending song codes instead of song titles. What if 2000 users make this error repeatedly at the same time in 30 minutes? One of Two: A good "average Joe" filter or more interactivity for making certain decisions. What do you think? _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
