[uf-new] [hAudio] fn _or_ album

[Martin McEvoy]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 16:33 -0500, Manu Sporny wrote:
> Martin McEvoy wrote:
> >> hAudio is not about TRACKS or ALBUMS by default. hAudio is about an
> >> audio recording. This is the fundamental underpinning to hAudio.
> > 
> > Although Almost exclusively throughout the entire development of hAudio
> > we have been talking about "albums" and "tracks" both in our discussions
> > and in our examples
> > http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-examples#Analysis_of_Music_Services
> 
> Yes, we talked about "albums" and "tracks", I understand where the
> confusion started. We're just trying to end the confusion and have a
> very solid definition for what hAudio is right now. :)
> 
> These discussions are helpful because others on this list may have been
> under the same impression. Keep in mind that we also talked about
> "podcasts", "top lists", "operas", "sound effects", multi-disc CD sets
> and various other things. The one thing that all of these have in common
> is that they are all audio recordings.
> 
> > haudio is a about nothing specific other than a recording correct?
> 
> Yes, that is correct. hAudio, in and of itself, is about nothing
> specific other than an audio recording.
> 
> We do have the capability to be more specific if we want to by using the
> ALBUM property. However, if the ALBUM property is not in an HAUDIO, it
> must be assumed that the HAUDIO is about an audio recording and nothing
> more.

so why not call it hRecording and have done with it?, hAlbum is
redundant, too specific, so is hAudio I think? but its too late for that
now...


Thanks

Martin  

> 
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