[uf-discuss] Is Music dead? (I hope not!)

[Alex Iskold]

While we are on the subject of music. What about books and movies?
Are ther any examples of these?

Thanks,

Alex

alex iskold
founder & ceo
adaptiveblue
http://www.adaptiveblue.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Cannon" <ryan at ryancannon.com>
To: <microformats-discuss at microformats.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Is Music dead? (I hope not!)


Coincidentally I was kicking this around in my head last night.

> I plan on researching and co-opting existing idioms if they exist, and
> actually started listing some examples of Artist/Release/Track data in
> music-examples before it became clear to me that this may not have
> been its intention-- it reads like it may have been set up to do
> something more along the lines of what media-info is set up to do.

One thing that neither of these pages mention is ID3v2[1], whose
implementation
in iTunes appears (from a consumer's standpoint) to contain all
necessary metadata
for music files, and is pretty widespread. A little wikipedia reading
let me know
that there are some competing formats: APEv2[2] and Vorbis Comments[3].

One problem that creating such a microformat might solve is the idea
of an "authoritative"
media tag—i.e. a publisher could create (x)html pages that can provide
generate the official metadata for digitized music.

[1] http://www.id3.org/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEv2_tag
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis_comment


-- 
Ryan Cannon

Interactive Developer
MSI Student, School of Information
University of Michigan
http://RyanCannon.com




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