Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
by exogen on Sunday June 04, 2017 @03:17PM
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Also, note: in theory MusicBrainz already has metrics for the number of clicks, views, lookups, and edits certain entities get through their site and API. I bet these are strongly correlated with listens/popularity.
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Re:MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia
by narrowrail on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:05PM
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>In theory MusicBrainz already has metrics
What does "in theory" mean here? Do those tables exist in whole or some part? Is this a matter of indexing an existing data set or hoping some data was acquired by accidental consequence?
I'm assuming it already exists due to the existence of pages like https://musicbrainz.org/tops/mb_top_stuff.html and https://stats.metabrainz.org, I'm just not positive of it. :)
Even if it's not collected though, it's data that they at least already have the ability to collect by simply flipping a switch, as opposed to spinning up a whole new ListenBrainz service and hoping it gains traction.
Oh, and the mp_top_stuff.html page was created less than a week ago.
You're absolutely right that we could, in theory, have that data, but we do not currently. Not in any usable form (for this purpose) anyway.