Just realized other thing we need to add this to: labels. http://soundcloud.com/electricminds http://soundcloud.com/mobilee-records (it's relatively common)
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinha...@koeln.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering which relationship types to use for relating artists and > recordings to SoundCloud URLs (http://soundcloud.com/). > Nikki was so kind to query the existing usage of types for these URLs for me. > :-) > > artists: > biography | 1 > discography | 11 > download for free | 63 > fanpage | 4 > myspace | 1 > official homepage | 15 > online community | 47 > purchase for download | 3 > social network | 43 > streaming music | 72 > > recordings: > creative commons licensed download | 3 > download for free | 37 > streaming music | 46 > > As you can see it's rather messy for artists at the moment and I think it > needs some form of standardising or at least cleaning up. > > A bit about the site: > In their own words "SoundCloud is a platform that puts your sound at the > heart of communities, websites and even apps. Watch conversations, > connections and social experiences happen, with your sound as the spark." > Artists can create profiles where they can upload tracks. Apparently you can > offer tracks only for streaming or also for downloading, and you can > CC-licence them. It also has social network / online community aspects > (followers, groups, comments (even within tracks), favourites, sending > messages etc.). > > So for artist-URL relationships all three of "social networking", "download > music for free" and "stream for free" seem suitable (but I'd rather not see > the class types "get the music" and "online communities" be used). Since the > site is mainly about getting the music I would lean towards relationships > from that class but on the other hand: an artist can offer all of their > tracks for streaming only, all of them for downloading as well or some for > streaming only and some for downloading as well. And we can't deny the > social/community aspect. > For those reasons, do you think SoundCloud deserves an artist-URL > relationship type of its own? And if so, which class would you put it under? > > On to recordings: > All tracks that have been uploaded will always be available for streaming so > as a general type that will always work. But if something's also available > for download I'd rather want to see that used because being able to download > music is better than just being able to stream it. And if something's offered > under a CC licence I'd use the CC relationship type. > In my eyes it's quite clear what to use for recordings and we don't need a > new type. What do you think? > > Oh and: You can also create sets of tracks and I have seen them used as > folders for albums - so maybe we'd want to relate set URLs to release groups > in some cases? > > Cheers, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
