+1 I think it's a good idea. 2011/12/13 Lukáš Lalinský <lalin...@gmail.com>
> Ok, so I'll try to summarize it one more time because I can see that > this mail was completely misunderstood. :) > > We already do have tags, the majority (but not all) of which are > genres. What I proposed here was a layer above the tagging system, > which just helps people to give some meaning to the tags that we > already have. There are two main problems with tags for people who are > interested in extracting data from MB and want only genres, not other > tags: > > a) Tags can be anything and you can't intelligently filter them out > without having large whitelists. That is, given tags "hip hop, hiphop, > rap, usa" I want to be able to tell that only "hip hop", "hiphop" and > "rap" represent genres. > > b) People are free to enter tags however they want, so we see > things like "hip hop" and "hiphop" next to each other. We should be > able to tell that they are in fact the same genre. > > What I want is to define what kind of genres are there, how are they > related and what tags people usually use to represent them. With this > information you can say that the tags "hip hop, hiphop, rap, usa" are > in fact mentioning only one genre - Hip-Hop. You can also say > from tags "psytrance" and "psy-trance" that both represent a genre > called Psychadelic Trance, which has its origins in Trance, which is a > style of Electronic music. > > Lukas > > 2011/12/12 Lukáš Lalinský <lalin...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > This discussion is a little off-topic here, but I can't think of a > > better group of active MB users to discuss a feature like this. > > > > I'd like MB to have some support for genres. This was apparently > > discussed at the last MB summit, but I don't know details about that. > > > > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Summit/11/Session_Notes#Genres > > > > I've created a ticket that seems to be a superset of the genre > > features discussed at the summit: > > > > http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3738 > > > > The idea for now is just to define the genre lists and relations > > between them. It does not deal with the problem of assigning entities > > like artists to genres (I think that SoundUnwound has a nice solution > > to this though). My idea is to add the concept of genres to > > MusicBrainz, make it editable by users, linkable to other genres and > > URLs. That way we can define genre trees. Then I'd like for each genre > > to have a list of tags that the genre can appear as. This can be used > > for autocompleting genres when adding tags, and whitelisting tags in > > applications like Picard (it can be used to whitelist tags also from > > other sources, like Last.fm). > > > > Does any of this make sense? Do you think it's a good idea? > > > > Lukas > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
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