[mb-bugs] [jira] Issue Comment Edited: (MBS-3161) Add SoundUnwound links

[Oliver Charles (JIRA)]

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Oliver Charles edited comment on MBS-3161 at 8/4/11 11:03 PM:
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I think the controversy here is that the previous things that customers asked for were developed in an entirely customer-agnostic manner.

Release groups are general, and they match a real world abstraction. And the timestamps have use to us as well, and they are correct data, which only talk about our own data.

A link to SoundUnwound doesn't match these criteria though. We've said for a long time we won't advertise, but now we're accepting money off a company for them to put a link on our pages... I can certainly understand where Aurélien is coming from here.

Edit: I've just seen that there's some sort of agreement to have data flow back to us which is awesome, but still very vague at the moment. It might have sit better if both parties held up their end at the same time with all the intricities ironed out at the same time

      was (Author: acid2):
    I think the controversy here is that the previous things that customers asked for were developed in an entirely customer-agnostic manner.

Release groups are general, and they match a real world abstraction. And the timestamps have use to us as well, and they are correct data, which only talk about our own data.

A link to SoundUnwound doesn't match these criteria though. We've said for a long time we won't advertise, but now we're accepting money off a company for them to put a link on our pages... I can certainly understand where Aurélien is coming from here.
  
> Add SoundUnwound links
> ----------------------
>
>                 Key: MBS-3161
>                 URL: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3161
>             Project: MusicBrainz Server
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Data display
>            Reporter: Robert Kaye
>            Assignee: Oliver Charles
>             Fix For: Bug fixes, 2011-08-08
>
>
> As per our contract with Amazon, we're to add links to SoundUnwound from our artist and release pages External Links section. The link structure is as follows:
> Artist Page (Radiohead) : http://www.soundunwound.com/music/radiohead/mb:a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711
> Album Page (Arcade Fire - Funeral): http://www.soundunwound.com/music/arcade-fire/funeral/mb:26cdc327-38f2-4200-b5dc-f2fa0e13fcfe
> The name of the artist/release is included in the URL since Amazon does not have pages for every single MBID. If we send a user to a SoundUnwound page that doesn't exist, they carry out a search with the provided artist/release name. The example above isn't entirely consistent (e.g. arcade-fire) -- simply URL encode the aritst/release name for the URL and send it along as is.

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