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Dan Brickley

More options Mar 12, 10:32 pm

From: "Dan Brickley" <danbrick...@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:32:26 +0000

Local: Wed, Mar 12 2008 10:32 pm

Subject: Re: myspace 2 rdf service on dbtune

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On 12/03/2008, Kurt J <kur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback Dan.

> > 1. given some artist (via musicbrainz IDs), get a list of their fans
> > URLs on MySpace.
> A great application, but this service won't do that quite. for now we only
> scrape the 'front page' of a myspace page - this is only the top friends,
> which tends to be other music artists not fans. this should be possible w/
> OpenSocial (and maybe the next version of dbtune/myspace)

Ah ok, makes sense. I spent a while trying a Perl scraper, but it was
painful. Hopefully we'll get clean APIs soon...

> > 2. given someone's myspace URL, get a list of musicbrainz IDs for
> > bands they like.
> This should (kinda) work if the bands they like are 'top friends'. however,
> there is no automatic lookup of musicbrainz IDs in the current service.
> part of the problem is myspace 'names' tend to be really funky - it is
> fashionable to use strange characters and include extra text in the name.
> this makes the lookup to mbz return a lot of ambiguity. however adding a
> musicbrainz lookup is hi on the todo list - i haven't tried using Yves and
> Chris S's hybrid artist/track lookup method...

I was thinking this could be done by combining
a) from myspace.com: a list of buddys of some URL
b) from musicbrainz: list of myspace URLs for some artist (see below)

> > 3 .... or for the most popular 20 artists amongst them and their buddies
> Would be a _really_ cool application. But would be tricky - afaik there is
> no logging on myspace of who plays what - only total play counts for each
> artist. but maybe a mashup combining last.fm data myspace data...

I hadn't thought of last.fm here, rather I was thinking to just use
'friend' links to artists. But the more we can mix together the
better...

> > Since MusicBrainz has Myspace URLs as 'advanced relations', this
> > should be possible.

> i did not know that. that is awesome. we should link form musicbrainz to
> dbtune/myspace...

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AdvancedRelationships
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MySpaceRelationshipType

* artist or label has a MySpace page at URL
* URL is a MySpace page for artist or label

Coverage isn't complete ... but hey we can always add links :)

Dan

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