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MusicIP or MusicBrainz compatibility?

~ April 18, 2007 at 2:00 by skyzyx (Views: 262)

It appears that OpenStrands is using proprietary ID values for artists, albums, releases, etc. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, however a few other services (MusicIP.com, MusicBrainz.org, Last.fm) are using MBID/PUID hashes so that doing lookups across music-related services is much easier for developers.

Are there any plans for the OpenStrands team to implement these more-standardized-than-not identifiers? Have they already been implemented and I'm just missing them?

It is my understanding that MusicBrainz is working to be a free/open-source replacement for services like Gracenote/CDDB, and I'm sure that there is some value to be had in working towards interoperability with these kinds of services.

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skyzyx ~ May 3, 2007 at 4:36

Any word on this?

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mosho ~ May 3, 2007 at 22:39

We have started investigating the level of work required for us to match our catalog of tracks with MBID/PUID id's. Unfortunately I can't say what kind of time frame you might be seeing these included in our return information, since we are in the very beginning stages of our investigation.

Chris

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skyzyx ~ May 8, 2007 at 15:37

I appreciate you taking the time to look into this! :) I think it would be good for the music development community overall!

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mosho ~ May 8, 2007 at 19:50

No problem it is important to us to listen to what the community wants, because the community is what drives us.

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briealeida ~ April 2, 2008 at 16:43

Me too! I think it would be awesome and sensical to have that cross-compatibility!

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