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I've tried to start adding musicbrainz-like fields in my index... 500 commits later i'm back where I started. Even if artists provided us with MBID, we still probably would have to think about how we would want to verify authenticity/abuse...

At this point, my plan is little baby steps and discussing with @ChadF and 33 others about how we can interoperate everywhere and still be somewhat trustworthy.

I have an api at https://developer.musicindex.org and a basic search at https://musicindex.org.

I'm also playing around with a tool for embedding RSS metadata directly to the file... So far it works for mp3 id3v2.4 tags, but I still have to map out the fields to support FLAC/ogg and MP4/MOV files.

As for the fields themselves, I did try to take as much as I could from the Musicbrainz playbook, but we still have no real definitive database of Artists, People, Releases (recordings), Release_Type (EP, Album, single) or Works (actual song entity linked to releases/recordings/covers/parody of said song)...

The Musicbrainz database is very thorough for creating meaningful and explicit relationships between fields, but so far in the RSS namespace we still have very rudimentary fields that can just barely determine Artist, Track no., Title, release_date... And the rest is up to interpretation: eg, feed itunes:author = albumartist, item itunes:author = track artist....

My conclusion is that it might be worth developing tools that submit data to Musicbrainz directly. Then, a MBID={guid} could be used in RSS to represent everything cleanly to any Musicbrainz-aware app

As in "locked-in and dialed" or did you mean "vendor locked-in" to a proprietary platform like WavLake?

If you don't believe God carved every word of your King James Bible into a piece of stone thousands of years ago, and that it was preserved by man, unblemished for all this time, and that every technological understanding of the universe is wrong because God explicitly said so, you're retarded.

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Why would anyone put their music up on Bandcamp? Don't they know they can make their music available on podcast apps? Don't they know they can make their music available through a fringe blockchain-based social messaging protocol???

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