On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 17:56 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: > Martin McEvoy wrote: > > Yes I was referring more to this problem, a was thinking more along the > > lines of playing the content in a music player such as iTunes or Amarok > > directly from a blog or Artist's website and being able to read a review > > about the track you are listening to either as a feed or by viewing the > > web page its self. > > Have you used Songbird yet, Martin? It is a great use case example of > what you are describing. It gets the information by ripping the MP3s off > of a site and reading their IDv3 tags. After talking with their > developers and some of the Firefox guys - they seem more keen on using > media-info to do this than Music Download. >
Yes I have seen and used Songbird it has been inspiring and excellent at what it does....but not everyone is likely to use Songbird (just yet) as their choice player and I would like my visitors to be able to play the content of my website regardless of which web browser or player they use. > I think the use case you are looking at supporting is more of a > Democracy Player/Songbird angle on the problem? Subscribe to an RSS feed > or point it at a web page and the player automatically identifies the > media on the page for playback? Am I understanding you correctly? > > > From what I understand so far is this about the actual file itself? > > maybe the media-info should relate more to the metadata attached to the > > file itself and should follow the lines if already widely used formats > > such as idv3. > > media-info is less about the actual file itself, and more about the > metadata regarding the file: artist, title, publisher, runtime length, > associated image data, etc. right! I get it :) > > There is some discussion if media-info should include the file > information as well - we might want to split that into a separate > microformat. The format of a file has very little to do with what the > file is about. For example: a song can be represented as an MP3 audio > file, or an MPEG-2 music video. isn't rel="enclosure" type="audio/mpeg" sufficient enough to do this then? maybe just adding length="198000" or something ? > > I don't know if Music Download is about the file itself or the metadata > associated with the file. Or both? I think maybe both. but not all audio is music it could be speech or sound effects so maybe not....hmm Its such a broad spectrum to consider that I think we will have no choice but to create both. > > -- manu > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-new mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
