- From: Michiel Hildebrand <Michiel.Hildebrand@cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:04:24 +0200
- To: Oscar Celma <ocelma@iua.upf.edu>
- Cc: Raphaël Troncy <Raphael.Troncy@cwi.nl>, public-xg-mmsem@w3.org
Hi Oscar, The rdfize is very nice. It would be great if we could extend the api for batch processing. After uploading a mp3 file I get in return all the nice stuff about the artist that was not in there before, however, I do not get the ID3 stuff about the track. Is this intended? Michiel On Mar 28, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Oscar Celma wrote: > > Hi, > > Raphaël Troncy wrote: >> Hi Oscar, >> >> Thanks for the detailed answers! >> >>> Right now only title and artist. For the moment, I think it's >>> enough. >>> More options could be the Musicbrainz/MusicDNS PUID [1]. >> >> Yes, I think it would also be great. >> But who can generate the PUID ? Only the secret algorithm of >> MusicBrainz ? > Nope! the secret algorithm comes from the clever MusicIP company > [1]. They provide the MusicDNS service [2][3], that is "linked" > with the MusicBrainz metadata repository. So, you can generate a > PUID with the client (open source), and then send it to their > servers, but the server side code (music similarity, and > identification) is completely closed. >> >>> I meant "possible", in the sense that more metadata could be >>> filled in >>> (see MO examples at [2], specially level 3). >>> BTW, I think the conversion is quite straightforward and simple. >> >> OK, I see. But you cannot get these additional metadata (that MO >> allows in the level 3) only >> from the common ID3 tags ... > No, we can't. We will need to apply some low-mid-level descriptors > from the audio. That's the use case shown in the /facet+music > application (browsing via different facets of the music). > The problem is that computing this descriptors under demand (when > the mp3 URL is sent) is time-consuming. So, we will probably have > to stick with these editorial descriptors for the ID3 to MO > showcase implementation. > >> I think it would be great that in the use case you make a small >> table detailing what ID3 tags >> you convert and their equivalence in MO, but as you said, it is >> quite straightforward ... > Ok. I agree. I will do that, then. > > All the best, > > Oscar > [1] http://mtg101.upf.es/podcast-urls.data > [2] http://www.musicip.com/dns/index.jsp > [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicDNS >
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