Marian Steinbach wrote:
Hello everybody!
I'd like to briefly introduce myself to the list.
I just joined the list because I am interested in the development of
(a) "music" microformats.
I am running an experimental spider that tries to gather information
about downloadable music from web pages. The problem here is of course
that metadata in ID3 tags is pretty "expensive" to access, both for
the spider and the publisher.
For those of you who haven't heard about the Songbird project (which I
am NOT part of) yet, they have the exact same problem. When a Songbird
user acesses web pages, Songbird scans the page for media links. It
then tries to acces ID3 information within the audio files in order to
extract title, artist, album, genre and duration.
Songbird developers are thus interested in supporting a Microformat
for music/audio/media links. You can read a (very short) discussion
here: http://www.songbirdnest.com/node/1356
According to my research, the music/media-info seems to be stalled
right now. However, I see a huge demand for some format that allows
for very, very simple description of music references.
A whole lot of problems around this have already been adressed within
this group and elsewhere. I'd be happy to learn from you guys about
what's missing.
Cheers,
Marian Steinbach
Hi Marian,
I would love to see a music microformat too, I was reading about a
suggestion here
http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/a-microformat-for-music a
while back. I don't know enough about mp3 to help with the microformat
but I have a user-case scenario. Some instances of mp3 and audio appear
in a flash player, I'm using Jeroen Wijering's flash player for my
brother's music blog at the moment. It uses an XSPF playlist to get its
data for urls and to create download links from within the flash. The
player has a decent javascript interface aswell that I'm currently using
for accessibility and an auto-resume cookie. If I could use some PHP
like Magpie RSS to parse the playlist (any suggestions?) I could create
an XHTML interface to control the mp3 player as opposed to the flash
interface allowing me to markup playlist items however I wanted, ideally
as a microformat.
My suggestion then is to perhaps look at the XSPF (www.xspf.org)
open format as a basis for the microformat and then extend it with the
specific mp3 metadata.
If there's to be a microformat for mp3s in particular it would be useful
to have one for playlists that would encompass the mp3s aswell.
Can anyone point me to a good entry-level reference or resource
regarding the metadata associated with mp3s so I can start creating a
test case 'in the wild'?
Cheers,
Rob
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