Yeah, but the next step is to make identifier somethink like a has so the media can be content addressable.
Wait, we can't have that. It's too convenient
Re:I Don't Have Spotify
by __MatrixMan__ on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:10PM
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Now we just need to associate payment/attribution related metadata with those identifiers
Content addressable doesn't really work here... different apps may have the same recordings encoded in different formats and bitrates, but they are still the same recording. Unless you meant "content addressable" in the sense of a uniquely assigned identifier like I was already talking about, and not a computed identifier from the raw bytes of the file like a hash.
Re:I Don't Have Spotify
by bariumbitmap on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:53PM
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This sounds like an acoustic fingerprint, such as AcoustID[0]. I think AcoustIDs and XSPF[1] would be a good combination for shared playlists. It's a shame that development stopped on the Tomahawk music player[2], it would have been an ideal platform for shared playlists like this.
[0] https://musicbrainz.org/doc/AcoustID
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Shareable_Playlist_Format
They’re called magnet links.
MusicBrainz has also been making a list of unique identifiers for music tracks:
https://musicbrainz.org/
This exists and is called ISRC. This metadata is embedded in a subchannel on CD's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Recordi...
Cool, I didn’t know that. I wish it were actually used by the various music apps.
Re:I Don't Have Spotify
by __MatrixMan__ on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:08PM
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It's a pity that compression is likely to provide subtly different data under different network conditions. If everything were lossless we could just use hashes as identifiers and proceed without the participation of the apps.
After all, they have no incentive to make this easy for us.
One could also imagine a standardized ismn://<number> URL format that could open in your preferred music app, and this could work even without a streaming service if you already own that song in your personal music collection.
ISMN seems to exist: https://www.loc.gov/ismn/about.html
But, I've never actually seen it used for recordings, it seems to be focused solely on music notation. So, some kind of recording-focused identifier for keeping track of specific performances between services.