<story><title>Horrible edge cases when dealing with music</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxbendick</author><text>My time to shine! I work in music distribution.&lt;p&gt;The Apple Music style guide is a great and accessible place to look if you&amp;#x27;re interested in music metadata: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.apple.com&amp;#x2F;itc&amp;#x2F;musicstyleguide&amp;#x2F;en.lproj&amp;#x2F;static.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.apple.com&amp;#x2F;itc&amp;#x2F;musicstyleguide&amp;#x2F;en.lproj&amp;#x2F;static.h...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DDEX is the set of metadata standards used across the music industry: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ddex.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ddex.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also worth knowing that not all content on streaming services is music! Some of it is spoken word, ASMR, non-music field recordings, etc. The difference between sound and music is subjective of course though.&lt;p&gt;On an artistic note, music can of course be presented in an infinite amount of ways. Not all these can be represented (i.e., re-presented) on streaming platforms. Installations and generative music for example. That&amp;#x27;s ok! To be able to represent all this music (and non-music) requires restrictions, otherwise we wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to create programs for it in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes restrictions on sound content are to make the streaming services friendlier to use, like the formatting of featured artists in titles. Royalty laws put restrictions on the handling of different roles, like songwriters and composers.&lt;p&gt;BUT nothing is stopping you from building your own way of representing music digitally, so long as you follow relevant laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slaymaker1907</author><text>I still think it&amp;#x27;s pretty bad for classical music. An important question for various pieces is who plays a particular instrument, but there really isn&amp;#x27;t a nice way to encode this in the metadata (encoding the relation of both person and role where role could be anything).&lt;p&gt;I also usually want to know who the conductor was and what was the orchestra</text></comment>
<story><title>Horrible edge cases when dealing with music</title><url>https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxbendick</author><text>My time to shine! I work in music distribution.&lt;p&gt;The Apple Music style guide is a great and accessible place to look if you&amp;#x27;re interested in music metadata: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.apple.com&amp;#x2F;itc&amp;#x2F;musicstyleguide&amp;#x2F;en.lproj&amp;#x2F;static.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;help.apple.com&amp;#x2F;itc&amp;#x2F;musicstyleguide&amp;#x2F;en.lproj&amp;#x2F;static.h...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;DDEX is the set of metadata standards used across the music industry: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ddex.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ddex.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also worth knowing that not all content on streaming services is music! Some of it is spoken word, ASMR, non-music field recordings, etc. The difference between sound and music is subjective of course though.&lt;p&gt;On an artistic note, music can of course be presented in an infinite amount of ways. Not all these can be represented (i.e., re-presented) on streaming platforms. Installations and generative music for example. That&amp;#x27;s ok! To be able to represent all this music (and non-music) requires restrictions, otherwise we wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to create programs for it in the first place.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes restrictions on sound content are to make the streaming services friendlier to use, like the formatting of featured artists in titles. Royalty laws put restrictions on the handling of different roles, like songwriters and composers.&lt;p&gt;BUT nothing is stopping you from building your own way of representing music digitally, so long as you follow relevant laws.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Thorrez</author><text>&amp;gt;Sometimes restrictions on sound content&lt;p&gt;Is there some sort of rule against sirens?&lt;p&gt;The song &amp;quot;Car Alarm&amp;quot; prominently features a car alarm on Youtube, but not on Spotify. This could just be a choice by the artists though, rather than a platform restriction.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xV7nHX2RLjQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xV7nHX2RLjQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;open.spotify.com&amp;#x2F;album&amp;#x2F;2u4HDb57v96iiJZUC7PqOx?highlight=spotify:track:0OvzUMsUDTUp9v8c8CxR1q&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;open.spotify.com&amp;#x2F;album&amp;#x2F;2u4HDb57v96iiJZUC7PqOx?highli...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>