Re: Allmusic.com - Re: id3v1 only??

While this is true, I'm hesitant to spend a lot of time integrating something where there is no real web API for retrieving the data and they have rather restrictive terms of use -- http://www.allmusic.com/com/amg/tou.html

It's my opinion that we (the Netjuke community of users and developers) must be very conscious of the direction we take the Netjuke and very selective in the features that are implemented. With all the mess about DRM, P2P file-sharing, etc. I feel that it's very important that Netjuke remain ideologically pure or we risk getting on the RIAA radar and having some very unpleasant experiences. So I want all metadata imported into Netjuke to come from tags or from open databases that invite us to use their information and provide them with new info. 

I might entertain the idea of someone writing a netjuke module or external tool for scraping album covers/reviews from allmusic.com and I'll link it from the homepage, but such a sticky piece of code will never make it into my codebase.

Thoughts?

Blake

On Thu, 8 May 2003 13:04:00 -0400
Steven Adeff <[email protected]> wrote:

> The nice thing about allmusic.com is they store album covers and reviews. 
> Being able to grab this info and store it locally or have links to them would 
> be cool.
> 
> -Steven Adeff
> 
> On Thursday 08 May 2003 12:41 pm, you wrote:
> > Steven -
> >
> > While I'm not interested in allmusic.com integration, I am very much
> > interested in Musicbrainz (http://www.musicbrainz.org) integration -- it's
> > open source, designed to be a web application, and has a thoroughly
> > documented XML/RDF representation of the metadata they house. It's on the
> > list of things I want to do.
> >
> > Blake
> 
> 
> 
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