While we are on the subject of music. What about books and movies? Are ther any examples of these? Thanks, Alex alex iskold founder & ceo adaptiveblue http://www.adaptiveblue.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Cannon" <ryan at ryancannon.com> To: <microformats-discuss at microformats.org> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Is Music dead? (I hope not!) Coincidentally I was kicking this around in my head last night. > I plan on researching and co-opting existing idioms if they exist, and > actually started listing some examples of Artist/Release/Track data in > music-examples before it became clear to me that this may not have > been its intention-- it reads like it may have been set up to do > something more along the lines of what media-info is set up to do. One thing that neither of these pages mention is ID3v2[1], whose implementation in iTunes appears (from a consumer's standpoint) to contain all necessary metadata for music files, and is pretty widespread. A little wikipedia reading let me know that there are some competing formats: APEv2[2] and Vorbis Comments[3]. One problem that creating such a microformat might solve is the idea of an "authoritative" media tag—i.e. a publisher could create (x)html pages that can provide generate the official metadata for digitized music. [1] http://www.id3.org/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APEv2_tag [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis_comment -- Ryan Cannon Interactive Developer MSI Student, School of Information University of Michigan http://RyanCannon.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss at microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss