{"id":2693,"date":"2004-07-21T04:50:42","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T18:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/21\/metadata-goodies\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:54:47","slug":"metadata-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/07\/21\/metadata-goodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadata goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10537,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gracenote.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311064508\\\/https:\\\/\\\/gracenote.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gracenote.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:29:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 22:20:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 22:20:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10538,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.gracenote.com\\\/gn_products\\\/cddb.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.gracenote.com\\\/gn_products\\\/cddb.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10539,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.macintouch.com\\\/itunes21.html#jul21&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210925130252\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.macintouch.com\\\/itunes21.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:15:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:29:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 22:20:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 22:20:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Not <em>useable<\/em> metadata goodies, unfortunately, but still, this is good to hear. Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenote.com\/\" title=\"Gracenote\">Gracenote<\/a> &#8212; maintainers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracenote.com\/gn_products\/cddb.html\" title=\"CDDB\">CDDB<\/a> (which iTunes and many other audio players use to provide track information upon insertion of a CD) have many additional possible data fields that can be used, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/itunes21.html#jul21\" title=\"James Lynch III, Gracenote\">this comment sent to Macintouch<\/a> (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Classical music is a difficult problem for almost all digital media players. The rock &amp; pop music world is much different than the Classical world &#8211; the data fields are not sufficient for describing Classical music. <strong>The Gracenote database has support for Composer, Ensemble, Orchestra, Conductor, and many other fields, but many applications choose not to support these fields.<\/strong> So over the years, the fields have been overloaded in meaning and in data. We recently re-wrote our Classical music standards so that existing applications can begin to be more consistent. But more importantly, Gracenote&#8217;s next generation database will fully support Classical music metadata like no other database. We are working to spread these changes out to our application developers, <strong>including Apple<\/strong>. Our editorial team is working hard to standardize the existing Classical data as well, partnering with experts in the industry. <strong>Look for big changes in 2004 and 2005.<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully these extra fields trickle down to iTunes in a (near) future release!<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;1st Premonition (DBX)&#8221; by Giannelli, Fred from the album <em>Sound of Superstition, The Vol. 5<\/em> (1997, 6:08).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Gracenote &mdash; maintainers of the CDDB (which iTunes and many other audio players use to provide track information upon insertion of a CD) have many additional possible data fields that can be used, according to this comment sent to Macintouch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2046,2035],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-music","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}