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Tuesday, February 11, 2003  Open Standards  MusicBrainz launches MusicBrainz. The MusicBrainz open music metadata community is out of beta and ready to kick CDDB's ass. [Hack the Planet] This looks cool and right on.  Now onto downloading and contributing to the open database. I can think of nobody else I'd rather dis-intermediate - than CDDB. MusicBrainz Roots and History The roots of this project are in a software program to play Audio CDs on UNIX systems. This program had the ability to display the name of the track it was currently playing. An index file was used to store the tracknames of an Audio CD. After a while a large index file with information about thousands of Audio CDs was created by the Internet community. This was a long time ago. The index file system became more widely used when Windows users started using this index file, but the system was not very mature then. The Windows Audio CD player could use an index file with track information, but the index size was limited to 640KB. This meant that Windows users could not use the large Internet index file without correcting software. In 1996 things changed when the Internet Compact Disc Database was created. Instead of a flat file with information of thousands of Audio CDs, the client/server model was applied. A single central server called "CDDB.com" could be used to access the information of Audio CDs. This server accepted new submissions of Audio CD information. At that stage the index file was reported to have grown by up to 800 Audio CDs/day. But these numbers say nothing about the quality of the submissions. The number of duplicate Audio CDs that now exist in the database is high - 10 entries of the same Audio CD under a different number is not uncommon. Many entries also contain numerous spelling errors. CDDB.com had no mechanism to correct errors. Despite this, the system became popular and useful. Things changed dramatically when the open CDDB.com server was bought by a company that wanted to make money from the contributions that users had made. The index file created by the Internet community could no longer be copied. Patents were obtained and granted. A large public outcry resulted into the start of several projects to create an Open Source competitor for the now commercial CDDB.com. From the five originally started projects, two project are still active. You are currently visiting one of them. The other, the www.FreeDB.org project was very quick in duplicating the functionality of the commercial CDDB.com server. This project has a very large collection of Audio CDs, more then 660.000 entries. A large group of users query this information at a rate of more then 500.000/day. The FreeDB.org server and CDDB.com server do not use a relational database. The servers use a very large collection of files, one for each entered Audio CD. The MusicBrainz project does not aim to be a drop-in replacement for CDDB.com. MusicBrainz uses a relational database and has a list of other features that makes it more advanced than the original CDDB.com server. MusicBrainz started as a tool called "CD Index." The new name was selected after a meeting in Amsterdam in 1999 where it was decided that the free insertion of information and website-based voting would be the focus of the second generation project. The company that developed CDDB was ION - led by Ty Roberts. They sold out to Gracenote - and they made their pack with the devil. 8:33:16 PM     - comment []  Reviews - Restaurants, Clubs, Food  Dun Dun noodles Michael Earl says Cambridge has spicy noodles. "I strongly recommend Mary Chung's Dun Dun Noodles (in Central Square, Cambridge) -- heavy noodles in a hot peanut-based sauce, shredded chicken optional. The Peking Ravoli and Suan La Chow Shao soup are also fabulous. It's a favorite of the MIT comp-sci culture, interestingly." [Scripting News] I heartily concur. In fact when I first heard Dave say 'spicey noodles' I thought of Dun Dun noodles and David Levitt - my friend who went to M.I.T. who used to take me to Mary Chung's.  I believe it's on Mass Ave.   David now has a company called "Connected TV". 7:50:53 PM     - comment []  Culture  Switch to whatever the hell you want Linux gives us the power we need to crush those who oppose us.. I'm Steve, and I'm a super-villain.... [Sifry's Alerts] I was in an office today and overheard this animation. Then I got home and Dave Sifry blogged it - so you KNOW it's important!  I bet it's running up DayPop as we speak. 7:23:47 PM     - comment []  Wall St. - Babylon  Music industry profits from illegal activity CD Price-Fixing Settlement: The real deal: Among those looking askance at the terms of the recording industry's CD price-fixing settlement is Baratunde Thurston who, after a bit of informal analysis, concludes that the price-fixing scheme proved to be a remarkably sound investment (see "The recording industry owes you money"). Amount Fed Trade Commission accuses industry of overpricing during period in question: $480,000,000 Sum of Cash and Non-Cash Industry Payments: $143,075,000 Return ($): $336,925,000 Return (%): 235% Conclusion: Not a bad investment!!!: 5:35:13 PM     - comment []  Broadband Telco Bandwidth Buy this Digital Downloading distributed computing eCommerce Traction media mngt narrowcasting New School Tools Power to the People  Andromeda storage and narrowcasting Scott Mathews' Andromeda just got a great write-up in About.com.  Andromeda is both a storage and narrowcasting system. Andromeda is NOT about stealing copyrighted material, as much as a servcie for bands and creative folks to use the web to store and distribute their stuff on-line.  Sort of like a combination of MP3.com and Shoutcast. Right on to Scott!  Here he is with George Clinton. 4:37:38 PM     - comment []  Audioblogging media mngt Open Standards  Audioblogging, Radio Show or Media Management? Charles Nesson, a professor at Berkman, has been doing audioblogs. [Scripting News] So what's the difference between a Radio Show (which Dave always really wanted to do with his tools), audioblogging and where we should be with media management? BTW Some of you may not know that Radio Userland actually started as a tool for MP3 playlists - which Dave imagined could evolve into some sort of Radio Show product. He saw Shoutcast and other streaming, P2P products and decided "hell, let's make blogging easier" and so Radio - though it's called Radio, does not do Radio Shows. Doc knows what Radio shows are all about - it's about someone sitting there talking on top or along with the music.  It's about having this incredible library of music at your fingertips, so that while one song is playing, you can go and get another one - that fast.  Ken Nordine also knows what Radio Shows are all about. Then there's audioblogging, which is cool and which the Charles Nesson stuff 'kind of is'.  The essence of audioblogging is that you use audio to change, communicate or in some way enhance the blogging experience.  But it never really is integrated into the blog data structure, blog tool or archival notion of blogging.  There needs to be 'media objects' in blogging. So then us idealists say "all of this needs media management!"  If you take a look at Professor Nesson's page - you'll know what I mean. Compare -  a page of MP3 files, with pretty icons, versus a music jukebox/library program like WinAmp.  OR think about voice-to-text transcriptions and what you could do with a search engine and audio. But until we have something working - I'm just gonna shut up.  Needless to say whatever we do - we'll give away to the wind. 9:11:31 AM     - comment []