Tested it a few times with various artists. It works. Awesome job! I still stand by my statement that it's super annoying to have to manually edit the URL. So I can't wait to see and use the...
Tested it a few times with various artists. It works. Awesome job!
I still stand by my statement that it's super annoying to have to manually edit the URL. So I can't wait to see and use the finished product. ;)
p.s. If you do fully implement everything, have you considered getting a TLD/ccTLD for it so that its easier to type, and catchier+easier to remember the URL?
I love this! MusicBrainz is a great database, and this will likely get me to dust off my account there and start contributing again. I'd gladly go through and add Bandcamp links to releases,...
I love this! MusicBrainz is a great database, and this will likely get me to dust off my account there and start contributing again. I'd gladly go through and add Bandcamp links to releases, especially because those were so often missing from Odesli/song.link.
Ah, neat. Yes MBID makes a lot of sense. Looking forward to its progress! It already sounds pretty cool. BTW, why not also include a link to the item’s MusicBrainz page as well?
Ah, neat. Yes MBID makes a lot of sense.
Looking forward to its progress! It already sounds pretty cool.
BTW, why not also include a link to the item’s MusicBrainz page as well?
I'm not entirely sure exactly what you mean by this, so can't say for sure if I would use it. Do you mean that you want to create a front-end similar to Odesli, but by fetching the streaming links...
I'm not entirely sure exactly what you mean by this, so can't say for sure if I would use it. Do you mean that you want to create a front-end similar to Odesli, but by fetching the streaming links from MusicBrainz?
If so, that would be cool. However, I think the added step of having to search on Musicbrainz first before modifying the URL, is a hurdle most people won't be willing to jump through, myself included. I would rather just continue using song.link (the URL of which still works despite the name change), since a huge part of its appeal for me is the convenience of being able to search for tracks/albums on their site, then being able to simply click "copy link", and paste it somewhere I want to share it.
But if you did manage to somehow make it as easy/convenient as song.link, I would definitely be tempted to start using it instead... especially since song.link still doesn't support Bandcamp, whereas MusicBrainz data often includes Bandcamp links.
p.s. The only reason I personally don't use song.link on Tildes as frequently as I used to is because I rarely share full albums here anymore, and for individual songs YouTube links are usually perfectly adequate.
You're tiptoeing around some old ideas from the l2t days. It'd be pretty cool just to drop any music link in the ~music submit page and auto populate all the relevant information. Between...
You're tiptoeing around some old ideas from the l2t days.
It'd be pretty cool just to drop any music link in the ~music submit page and auto populate all the relevant information. Between musicbrainz and discogs you get all the streams, but also bits like official bios, Facebook, Twitter, youtube channels, bandcamp pages, genre data, release info etc. Nice to drive clicks back to the artists and populate sidebars or an info block under a submission. The tag metadata on music is pretty rich, enough to make auto titling of music submissions and auto fill of tags work well. Better, I suspect, than most other content types.
In theory this submission engine can work for other kinds of content as well, such as books, movies, tv series, scientific publications, etc.
This makes for a lazy submission process, even on mobile. That means happy users posting a lot more content. It's also something no other site has, at least far as I've seen. Might also provide some stability to content formatting and classification for recognized types of content, take some of the linkjacking and user created chaos out of the submission process.
I think there is potential for more than just replicating song.link functionality, which I would also use regularly. Not to try to hijack your idea - you just reminded me of this old stuff again.
Tested it a few times with various artists. It works. Awesome job!
I still stand by my statement that it's super annoying to have to manually edit the URL. So I can't wait to see and use the finished product. ;)
p.s. If you do fully implement everything, have you considered getting a TLD/ccTLD for it so that its easier to type, and catchier+easier to remember the URL?
Sounds really cool, but I honestly don’t know how to operate it…
I love this! MusicBrainz is a great database, and this will likely get me to dust off my account there and start contributing again. I'd gladly go through and add Bandcamp links to releases, especially because those were so often missing from Odesli/song.link.
I'd love to see a submission process that contributed any new data the user entered right back to musicbrainz.
Ah, neat. Yes MBID makes a lot of sense.
Looking forward to its progress! It already sounds pretty cool.
BTW, why not also include a link to the item’s MusicBrainz page as well?
I'm not entirely sure exactly what you mean by this, so can't say for sure if I would use it. Do you mean that you want to create a front-end similar to Odesli, but by fetching the streaming links from MusicBrainz?
If so, that would be cool. However, I think the added step of having to search on Musicbrainz first before modifying the URL, is a hurdle most people won't be willing to jump through, myself included. I would rather just continue using song.link (the URL of which still works despite the name change), since a huge part of its appeal for me is the convenience of being able to search for tracks/albums on their site, then being able to simply click "copy link", and paste it somewhere I want to share it.
But if you did manage to somehow make it as easy/convenient as song.link, I would definitely be tempted to start using it instead... especially since song.link still doesn't support Bandcamp, whereas MusicBrainz data often includes Bandcamp links.
p.s. The only reason I personally don't use song.link on Tildes as frequently as I used to is because I rarely share full albums here anymore, and for individual songs YouTube links are usually perfectly adequate.
You're tiptoeing around some old ideas from the l2t days.
It'd be pretty cool just to drop any music link in the ~music submit page and auto populate all the relevant information. Between musicbrainz and discogs you get all the streams, but also bits like official bios, Facebook, Twitter, youtube channels, bandcamp pages, genre data, release info etc. Nice to drive clicks back to the artists and populate sidebars or an info block under a submission. The tag metadata on music is pretty rich, enough to make auto titling of music submissions and auto fill of tags work well. Better, I suspect, than most other content types.
In theory this submission engine can work for other kinds of content as well, such as books, movies, tv series, scientific publications, etc.
This makes for a lazy submission process, even on mobile. That means happy users posting a lot more content. It's also something no other site has, at least far as I've seen. Might also provide some stability to content formatting and classification for recognized types of content, take some of the linkjacking and user created chaos out of the submission process.
I think there is potential for more than just replicating song.link functionality, which I would also use regularly. Not to try to hijack your idea - you just reminded me of this old stuff again.
If that's the case then I would 100% be willing to use it instead of Odesli.
Heh, href is sufficiently nerdy :)
AudioHref?