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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0012969 | MMW 5 | DB / Backup | public | 2015-11-23 11:15 | 2017-12-01 17:42 |
| Reporter | jiri | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0012969: Complement MB usage with data from Discogs | ||||
| Description | While MB offers a lot of music related data, Discogs often offers even more. This issue is here to track potential usage of more data from Discogs. 1. MB often misses artwork for some albums. It seems that Discogs offers the correct artwork more often. We should use Discogs in this case. 2. Discogs sometimes even has more albums, particularly of less known artists. We could use this, but I'm not yet sure, where/when to make matching of these two sources. Maybe as an occasional server job, since Discogs data can be downloaded for offline usage? | ||||
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Assigning to Rusty first in order to review the legal status (http://www.discogs.com/help/doc/terms-of-service). We probably should get some permission from them before doing anything mentioned above. |
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Btw, based on recent MM5 development, I'd say that rather than using alternative service, we should try to get our users involved in MB (and WP) data improvement and this way not only to help to create an ultimate data source, but also to build/maintain a community of people interested both in MM5 and correct metadata. |
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Agreed that we should focus on MB, considering that MusicBrainz is fairly comprehensive. Reducing priority--we'll get a better feel for whether additional data sources are required as more users test MM5. Note: even if we take the approach that you suggest, there'll still be a need for tools to help users look up and populate the missing metadata. |
