[uf-new] Microformat for Music Downloads

[Alexandre Van de Sande]

>publishing music with the intent that it be
downloaded to a local audio player is just as much syndication as
publishing text with the intent that it be downloaded to a local feed

I agree with you: and the information formatted on hAtom should
concern the syndication: title, date released, type of content,
author. But any extra information that's specific to the format being
syndicated (composer,  album, drum player) should be formatted into a
format-specific for it.

If we were syndicating places to be read by some kind of google earth
plugin for exemple, no one would argue that the best way to do it
would use a hGeo inside an hAtom, not to expand the hAtom in order to
pass Geographical locations. Therefore if I am building a music-player
+ feed-reader that relies on hAtom we should use a microformat for
music.

On 4/9/07, Scott Reynen <scott at makedatamakesense.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Alexandre Van de Sande wrote:
>
> > again I really do not understand the point on using hReview
>
> I agree that hReview doesn't make much sense outside of actual reviews.
>
> > Of course you can syndicate audio or review music, but it's wrong to
> > try to fit hreview or hAtom for something totally different
>
> I would argue that publishing music with the intent that it be
> downloaded to a local audio player is just as much syndication as
> publishing text with the intent that it be downloaded to a local feed
> reader.  So all music downloads are a form of syndication.  I'm not
> suggesting putting audio downloads within a syndicated blog post just
> to use hAtom; I'm suggesting the audio download itself is syndicated
> content, so the audio itself can make use of existing hAtom semantics
> for syndicated content.  That this will show up in feed readers is a
> secondary concern.
>
> --
> Scott Reynen
> MakeDataMakeSense.com
>
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