Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat? I didn't know about AllMusic. Thank you very
much for that one, Pat. I'm off to have a look in a minute.
On 28 Sep 2006, at 14:56, Pat Farrell wrote:
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Right, Amazon only has mass market stuff.
A lot of 'classical' CDs are lucky to sell as many as 10,000
copies, which doesn't even count for Amazon. AllMusic has many
more, but I don't like their navigation to find them.
Pat, you fairly take my breath away, you do. If you already know
by heart the details of every early, Renaissance, Galante,
Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern composer in even a
fairly limited collection like mine;
Wise guy :-)
One tries, one tries. One fails dismally, but one tries.
I must be buying the wrong CDs or from the wrong labels.
A lot of mine don't have that kind of information.
European labels often fairly good for this, I think. DG, Hyperion -
I've just been looking at the booklets for a couple of volumes of the
Hyperion Complete Purcell Anthems and Services, which are superb -
Naxos, Archiv, L'Oiseau Lyre - put them all together, you' probably
get a pretty good reading list for the first year or two of a music
degree course. (The stuff that came with the Decca Wagner recordings
alone is probably one unit, and the Philips Complete Mozart probably
another three! )
Of course it belongs in the SlimServer database.
What database? Sorry to ask what must be a very obvious question, but
this looks like a trick I have missed in a big, big way.
What's a groves?
What you get when you plant all together a dozens of oakses, asheses
and thornses. Alternatively (on the off chance that you're not, after
all, taking the Mick because I stuck an 's' on the end without an
apostrophe!)
www.grovemusic.com
I have web access at my own desk through my membership of, and a PIN
supplied by, my local municipal library. Endless hours of swotty
amusement and hilarity.
Again, this seems to me to be a great topic of an open source,
or open data entry effort.
Would you spell out how something like this might work? I'd been
thinking along similar lines, but don't begin to know how to set it up.
And the Transporter is going to appeal to folks who want to have
this information.
Yes, indeed. Very much so.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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