[HN Gopher] Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the ...
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       Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
       (2019)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2022-06-25 15:55 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | ntoskrnl wrote:
       | > It wasn't the musician's fault, but too much time had gone by
       | before anyone noticed. The companies involved declined to pay
       | him.
       | 
       | Isn't this what the legal system is for? If the situation were
       | reversed, I can guarantee they'd sue him for the difference.
        
         | xmodem wrote:
         | It sounds like the system is working as intended for the record
         | companies. And also like this might be a situation where a
         | class action could actually be useful.
        
       | adhesive_wombat wrote:
       | This is where something like Wikidata (or another triplestore)
       | would work well.
       | 
       | Wikidata's benefit is that it's public and verifiable without
       | special software.
       | 
       | All the complex cases in the article can be captured (though
       | Wikidata has, at best, a shaky set of schemas for how any given
       | data is represented).
        
         | atoav wrote:
         | There is precisely such a project and it is called musicbrainz:
         | https://musicbrainz.org/
        
           | LeoPanthera wrote:
           | I've been contributing to Musicbrainz for years and I highly
           | recommend it. I use the "Beets" client to automatically tag
           | my library (and occasionally "Picard" to manually clean up
           | mismatches) and it works really well.
        
       | 8bitsrule wrote:
       | Clearly there needs to be a single legal, authoritative, and
       | publicly accessible source for any music product's (public)
       | metadata. _Before_ it gets aired by _anyone_. A good model for
       | this might be DOI ( 'Digital object identifier'). Anyone- music
       | companies, artists, stores and streamers - would get a number for
       | each published title where they could then find all the related
       | metadata. Including reliable sources that can be queried for
       | (private) legal details.
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       | It would seem like the rights orgs like ASCAP, BMI, Harry Fox,
       | etc etc _should_ have been all over this long ago. But maybe it
       | 'd mean their extinction. Or it would would complicate the back-
       | room deals.
        
         | d883kd8 wrote:
         | Now this is a vision
        
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