Hello Chaps. I've been lurking for a wee while, trying to get me head round an idea I would like to see.
My goal is the creation of a music-description microformat. The vision I have is HTML markup which will allow an application or script to easily find artist/album/track type information on a webpage. An example client use would be reading an album review, and having a Greasemonkey script find out if that album's in Rhapsody/Napster/AllyoucaneatMusicProvider's library so you can listen to it yourself. Or browsing to a friend's last.fm page and being able to tell Songbird to play everything in your library that's in their Top 50 tracks. The example server usage is to separate out the "metadata" from the music file into the HTML, so that something like the Creative Commons search crawler can find the metadata for an MP3 file without having to download + parse the file. There've been a couple of attempts at creating "media" microformats so far. Both have attempted too much, IMO, by seeking to describe any bit of media (music, speech, images, film). Far too complex. I'd like to focus purely on music. There are plenty of examples of the small-amount of data needed to "capture" a piece of music. Also, this is something that can be used as a building block in review or product microformats to help describe what is being, erm, described. So before I charge into creating a wiki page and cutting-n-pasting some of the examples off of media-info-examples, anyone got any comments or anything they want to warn me of? Cheers, Rod. [PS. As a quick full-disclosure-type disclaimer: Although my day job is at a consumer electronics company which is quite closely associated with music, I'm doing this on my own time and of my own volition.] -- :: Rod Begbie :: http://groovymother.com/ :: _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
