HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry

Re:HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry by paxys on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:15PM (#26028137)

Building the interface itself is the trivial part of this exercise. How are you going to source the database of metadata of every media item produced in the last century?

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Re:HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry by recuter on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:22PM (#26028219)

what.cd did it just fine for music and that was a tiny community.

There are a several longstanding open projects out there to compile metadata databases that are free to use like: https://musicbrainz.org/statistics (33 million tracks)

Music is less than 100 million items, Movies fewer than 1 million, TV somewhere in between and books are a few hundred million. I'm sure they all have mostly-complete metadata databases available already.

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Re:HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry by toyg on Thursday February 04, 2021 @07:16PM (#26031403)

This is an ironic question, considering how all the best media databases on the web originally started as volunteer efforts by aficionados. Media-metadata gathering is possibly the best case-study of effective crowdsourcing.

So the answer is basically “just empower the community to do it”.

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Re:HBO Max is failing the classic Tom and Jerry by Solocomplex on Thursday February 04, 2021 @01:26PM (#26028259)

TVDB and others have great APIs for this purpose.

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