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Re:I Don't Have Spotify by dylan604 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:42PM (#42117745)
Great that you want to use open sources, but now, you've just provided more evidence for my case as you've listed 2 new "sources of truth". Even that fact that there are plural truth sources indicates no one source is truth. Why are they different? Same reasons that have already been discussed

So, we really have not made any forward progress here

Re:I Don't Have Spotify by rvba on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:21PM (#42118139)
Reality is that simply very few people use this functionality.

If those two open access sources become big enough, it is quite clear that someone will make a project to reconcile the data between them.

If any of those projects skyrockets the same way wikipedia skyrocketed, then the topic will be solved.

Re:I Don't Have Spotify by dylan604 on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @02:12PM (#42118595)
If If If. This isn't blind pessimism. This is from someone that has dealt with metadata from studios/labels for just under two decades. IMDB was meant to do this for movies/tv, but yet it's an absolute dumpster fire.

So from an outside perspective, it's fun to dream a little dream, but from a gray beard it's just yet another dream.