On 3/10/07, Lukáš Lalinský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry for replying to this old thread, but needed a Purevolume AR type
just now...
On Št, 2006-10-12 at 15:22 -0400, Alexander Dupuy wrote:
[...]
> What about the missing indie911 URL relationship? And the ones for
> "mp3.com or The Podsafe Music Network or garageband.com" (to quote your
> message of two months ago)? We can't create a special Artist->URL AR
> for every music-related site that's out there. MySpace was an
> exception, and I still think, a mistake, but at least it is far beyond
> any of the others. Can you come up with a generalized form for this
> that covers all of these sites. I tried to come up with something that
> would generalize from MySpace to cover LiveJournal and other artist
> sites, but it was too contentious to achieve consensus at that time.
> Perhaps generalizing in a different, more music-related way, would be
> successful.
We already have an AR type for MySpace and the main argument for it was
that it's big enough. I think Purevolume is big enough as well *and*
it's specialized to music. So, I'm proposing these changes:
* Add new AR type "has a community page at".
* Move the MySpace AR type under this new one.
* Add new AR type "has a Purevolume page at".
Comments?
I think, obviously, MySpace is big enough to warrant it's own AR. If
I started a band the first thing I would do (possibly before we
developed our own homepage) would be to setup a MySpace page where
people could easily listen to our material. I would probably go
around to other community sites doing the same, but MySpace would be
the most important (since so many people use it).
I don't use MySpace except for listening to artist's music quickly, or
showing friends what a group sounds like. PureVolume is okay for this
too, but I think MySpace's "selection" of artists is much larger than
PureVolume.
I do think PureVolume should have it's won AR type - but can this be
retroactively applied to all the "http://*purevolume.com/*"; URLs we
already have in the DB? I know I've been entering them as "X has
music which can be downloaded for free at Y".
--
-Aaron
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