[mb-devel] Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships

[Robert Kaye]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:

> Of course, this would have to be carefully prepared. IMO, an artist
> could have more than one tag. This would allow to use different levels
> and this would allow to tag artists who are difficult to classify.

Acutally each user can apply their preferred sets of tags to any  
artist, release or track. The system will then periodically aggregate  
the individual users' tags into a set of 'typical tags' that  
represent the most common tags applied from users.

> I implicitly thought that you would apply tags to artists, but maybe
> you thought also of releases?

See above -- we'll even do tracks.

If anyone wants to play with the pre-pre-alpha stuff, go check out:

  http://tags.musicbrainz.org

Make sure you log in an then go to an artist/release/track page. And  
please, hold the comments for now -- this system is FAR from done.

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