On Sep 26, 2005, at 6:07 AM, david bovill wrote:
Which makes me think - what is the harm of just using CDDB/freedb
as a backend - does the database not have fields for who performed
on which track?
No, they don't. Non-jazz example: go to CDDB and search on
'Eveningland'. There's the CD, and the group name Hem -- no
personnel. Or search on 'Flute Fever' -- a great 1963 jazz album by
Jeremy Steig. No result -- never transferred to CD. (Anybody got it?
I'd pay happily for a copy!)
Clearly the data I want isn't the data everybody wants. I don't need
to know the name of the third chair second violinist in the Cleveland
orchestra recording of Brahms symphonies under George Szell; I do
want to know the drummer who's driving a jazz quartet. The popular
databases are attuned, of course, almost entirely to popular music.
(They can't figure out, in classical music, how to use the "Artist"
and "Composer" fields that iTunes reports.) Sorry -- end of rant.
Charles Hartman
On 26 Sep 2005, at 03:11, Alex Tweedly wrote:
It would be interesting to have a future version where the data
could be collected as a collaborative effort (like CDDB/freedb
were); although the number of people who want this data may be
relatively small, I wouldn't be surprised if a good portion of
them were sufficiently enthusiasts that you could get some benefit
from making it available..... something to think about after the
basic version is working well.
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