Hello Kuno, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:41:46AM +0200, Kuno Woudt wrote: > Considering people keep adding stuff like this, it seems that it would > be useful to keep track of digital retailers in some fashion. > > As I mentioned in the thread about formats digital download retailers are > to some extent involved in "manufacturing". You give .flac to Bandcamp > and they generate all the lossy formats they sell. I assume iTunes, > Amazon, 7digital and Bleep all produce the encoded files themselves. > > Does anyone have any ideas on what do with this? > > Should we track this stuff? > > If so, how? > (add extra fields in the server, do something with the "can be purchased > for download" relationship, just use the label field, any other options?)
Well, there can be many companies involved in the production of physical releases, too, but we are primarily only concerned about the label. I think tracking different encodings/formats of digital releases is not useful. Knowing that a release can only be bought at CD Baby, iTunes etc. however is, so I think special ARs would be useful for this. Just like we have "has ASIN" we should have "has CD Baby page" or "has iTunes ID". For a daunting example how silly it would be if we would have different releases for different encodings look at this: http://www.discogs.com/master/79823 Johannes _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
