[ID3 Dev] ID3v1 Genre URI Recommendation

[Ben Bennett]

I can say that their style and genre IDs have been stable for at least
5 years now.

The artist and album IDs are scrambled so that there are many
scrambled ones generated for the real internal ID, but they are also
stable.  So if you have a scrambled ID you will be able to link in to
AMG, but you can not compare one ID against the other to see if they
refer to the same artist.

I use the genre list from the appendix of the 2.3.0 spec:
  http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0.html#secA

		-ben

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Rabus wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> thanks, 'allmusic' offers exactly the information I'm searching for 
> (relations between genres etc.) -- only their URL scheme seems to be not 
> stable. If they change their database IDs or dynamic page generation 
> concept every URI becomes obsolete...
> 
> Okay, now I know where the data is but cannot use it... :-/
> 
> 
> If I use my own URIs, is there one *normative* site listing all the 
> standard and winamp genres? Doing a quick search I've found a couple of 
> sites -- which one is the best to choose?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> Ben Bennett wrote:
> >You could use the allmusic styles.  You would have to make a mapping
> >yourself, but there are far more allmusic styles than the standard
> >genres (even if you include the winamp ones) so it should be possible,
> >
> >Hard rock is:
> >     http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:217
> >
> >		  -ben
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:11:05PM +0100, Daniel Rabus wrote:
> >
> >>Well, maybe my initial posting was a little bit unclear...
> >>
> >>The Problem: There is still a need for some standardized mapping from a
> >>genre ID to an URI.
> >>
> >>Background: In RDF it's essential to refer to a resource using a URI. So
> >>if I create a RDF description of a MP3 file, like
> >>
> >><rdf:Description>
> >>	<dc:creator>Briskeby</dc:creator>
> >>	<dc:title>Propaganda</dc:title>
> >>	<dc:coverage rdf:resource="xxx"/>
> >></rdf:Description>
> >>
> >>then 'xxx' should point to a URI referring the genre "Pop". If the URI
> >>is resolvable, i.e. an URL, additional human readable information (maybe
> >>a definition) may be accessible. Also additional statements like "Pop is
> >>related to PopRock" will be possible. Let's think about search
> >>engines... :-)
> >>
> >>Summary: The ID3 genre ID is a great concept to define the "kind of"
> >>music. Providing an semantically equivalent URI would raise additional
> >>benefits -- and allows proper integration into RDF.
> >>
> >>Anyone sharing my thoughts? Comments or suggestions?
> >>
> >>Daniel
> >>
> [snip]
> 
> 
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