Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-16 Thread ralphpnj
Interesting thread and related to this earlier thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43750 Only thing was during the discussion on the earlier thread I was told many things, some true and some not true, but the one thing I was not told was Boy, what a good idea!. So how come now

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-16 Thread egd
ralphpnj;329770 Wrote: In any event, I'm glad to see that others are beginning to see the potential of a fully linked music library/database and that the discussion is continuing. Hopefully this thread will ultimately bear more fruit than that earlier thread. I doubt it will result in any

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-15 Thread egd
gusi;326229 Wrote: I thought there was already a many to many relationship between artist and track in the schema. (Last time I looked it was 6.x). So you should be able to enter multiple artists.They are catered for insofar as you can browse all albums/ tracks an artist is involved in so

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-05 Thread gusi
I thought there was already a many to many relationship between artist and track in the schema. (Last time I looked it was 6.x). So you should be able to enter multiple artists. Try tagging your jazz albums where there are few 'fixed' bands but many collaborations between artists. It is no easy

[slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
Seeing the recent tagging related post on Tom Petty vs Tom Petty the Heartbreakers vs Mudcrutch etc. I've been thinking that it would be useful to have the ability to add an additional tag to audio tracks that SC recoginises and consequently allows users to capture the relationship between

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread funkstar
I guess this is the same as the relationship between Nick Cave The Bad Seeds vs Grinderman? Could also be used for artists that go by several different aliases, such as Fatboy Slim/Norman Cook and many other dance acts. -- funkstar

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
Yes, the utility being the ability to navigate/ identify those relationships and thus explore more music by an artist long after your grey matter has forgotten that Eric Clapton can be found playing on: Blind Faith, Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek the Dominos, John Lennon the Plastic Ono Band,

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread bhaagensen
This would be cool, but I would propose a more ambitious variant. Integration with the musicbrainz database. The musicbrainz database already contains lots of information like this. The benefits of integration with musicbrainz could be vast. Specifically for this thread e.g. potentially more

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread bhaagensen
egd;325825 Wrote: Yes, the utility being the ability to navigate/ identify those relationships and thus explore more music by an artist long after your grey matter has forgotten that Eric Clapton can be found playing on: Blind Faith, Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek the Dominos, John Lennon

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
bhaagensen;325829 Wrote: That is also within the realm of musicbrainz. Don't know how good the data are for the examples mentioned, but something like this would do exactly what you want. http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=739494 If it could be made to work without requiring

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread bhaagensen
egd;325832 Wrote: If it could be made to work without requiring Internet access once the data is loaded that'd be great, otherwise not. I guess it could. Similar to how taggers such as Picard pull data from MB for use in tags, SC could pull data and store in its database. -- bhaagensen

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread Khuli
egd;325825 Wrote: ... or that Gary Moore appears on Thin Lizzy, G Force, Skid Row and Greedy Bastards. and Colosseum II -- Khuli http://www.last.fm/user/khuli Khuli's Profile:

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread funkstar
I can see why you would want the meta data to be incuded in the iles themselfs, but for me, integration with MusicBrainz and having the data pulled down periodically would be great too. Perhaps it could be done in bulk as an option after the main library scan, with a scan option to just update

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
funkstar;325903 Wrote: I can see why you would want the meta data to be incuded in the iles themselfs, but for me, integration with MusicBrainz and having the data pulled down periodically would be great too. Perhaps it could be done in bulk as an option after the main library scan, with a

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread erland
Just information, if you don't already know this. If you use the LastFM scanning module in the Custom Scan plugin and also use Custom Browse, you will get access to the Similar artists statistics collected by LastFM. I've thought about implementing something similar towards musicbrainz, but

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
Khuli;325865 Wrote: and Colosseum II I knew that ;-/ -- egd Internet forums: conclusive proof depth of gene pool is indeed variable, monkeys can be taught to cut code, and world peace is utterly unrealistic... Integrating MusicIP with SqueezeCenter...'*here's how*'

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread egd
erland;325972 Wrote: Just information, if you don't already know this. If you use the LastFM scanning module in the Custom Scan plugin and also use Custom Browse, you will get access to the Similar artists statistics collected by LastFM. I've thought about implementing something similar

Re: [slim] Linking artists

2008-08-04 Thread erland
egd;326058 Wrote: Thanks Erland, sounds like it could be pretty useful. Does it link related artists/ bands in one's library or does it suggest you may like b because you like a? I'm most keen to be able to explore interrelationships in my existing library. It's limited to the artists in