Martin McEvoy wrote: > Yes I was referring more to this problem, a was thinking more along the > lines of playing the content in a music player such as iTunes or Amarok > directly from a blog or Artist's website and being able to read a review > about the track you are listening to either as a feed or by viewing the > web page its self.
Have you used Songbird yet, Martin? It is a great use case example of what you are describing. It gets the information by ripping the MP3s off of a site and reading their IDv3 tags. After talking with their developers and some of the Firefox guys - they seem more keen on using media-info to do this than Music Download. I think the use case you are looking at supporting is more of a Democracy Player/Songbird angle on the problem? Subscribe to an RSS feed or point it at a web page and the player automatically identifies the media on the page for playback? Am I understanding you correctly? > From what I understand so far is this about the actual file itself? > maybe the media-info should relate more to the metadata attached to the > file itself and should follow the lines if already widely used formats > such as idv3. media-info is less about the actual file itself, and more about the metadata regarding the file: artist, title, publisher, runtime length, associated image data, etc. There is some discussion if media-info should include the file information as well - we might want to split that into a separate microformat. The format of a file has very little to do with what the file is about. For example: a song can be represented as an MP3 audio file, or an MPEG-2 music video. I don't know if Music Download is about the file itself or the metadata associated with the file. Or both? -- manu _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
