[uf-new] Microformat for Music Downloads

[Ryan King]

On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Scott Reynen wrote:

> On Mar 13, 2007, at 6:25 PM, Ryan King wrote:
>
>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 9:07 AM, Scott Reynen wrote:
>>> On Mar 9, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Marian Steinbach wrote:
>>>
>>>> Draft with album title:
>>>>
>>>> <div class="music-download">
>>>> <a href="pl.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"><span class="artist">The  
>>>> Shins</span> -
>>>> <span class="title">Phantom Limb</span></a>
>>>> (from the album <em class="album">Wincing The Night Away</em>)
>>>> </div>
>>>>
>>>> Any comments so far? (It'll get more complicated soon enough!)
>>>
>>> Let's not make it any more complicated than it absolutely needs  
>>> to be.  I'm not even convinced we need to worry about album in  
>>> the first draft.
>>
>> Have you collected any examples to inform this opinion?
>
> Which opinion?  Starting as simple as possible is a microformats  
> principle, so I hope you're not questioning that.  Here are the  
> current examples of music download sites:

No, that album is not common or simple. It just seems that talking  
about what fields should be in format before there's any documented  
examples from the wild is premature.

-ryan
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