[mb-users] libFooID

[Age Bosma]

Robert Kaye wrote:

> 
> MusicBrainz is not in the acoustic fingerprinting business. We're in the 
> creating a free music database business. To keep our eyes on our primary 
> goal, I can't justify spending the resources on an acoustic 
> fingerprinting system JUST BECAUSE ITS MORE FREE. After my initial 
> outlay of time in Feb/March, I am now spending ZERO dollars and ZERO 
> hours to get acoustic fingerprinting for gratis.
> 

Don't get me wrong, I didn't meant to imply that MusicBrainz should 
really start using libFooID a.s.a.p. just because it's opensource. I 
love to concept of opensource just as much as I understand that you have 
to pay for other software and services provided by other company's. I'm 
not the opensource purist you might be mistaken me for.
I merely reported it as a heads-up in case it's of any interest to MB 
and because I was interested in the view of the rest of the community on 
this. ALL FOR THE GOOD OF THE MUSICBRAINZ PROJECT! ;-)
That's also why I didn't start any advocacy for libFooID. I don't even 
know it that well, I just ran into it. For the same reasons I didn't 
(want to) make any assumptions, just 2 quick questions to start a 
discussion.

> What's even better, MusicIP will be paying us 10% of they money they 
> earn from their acoustic fingerprint services that serve our data. This 
> month we're going to get the first check from this and while I don't 
> know the actual amount or how often this will come, the check will be 
> non trivial and should clock in around $1000.
> 

So what this basically means is that the more fingerprinting we do, the 
more chance MB is going to get paid more?
I kinda forgot about this little 10% aspect of the deal to be honest. I 
was just wondering today why I would actually start going through all 
the (current) hassle of fingerprinting since MB is mainly of interest 
for me because of its music info db, not the file identification or 
tagging aspect.
Being reminded of the 10% deal again I will sure start to help out 
fingerprinting and all as soon as I don't need to use separate 
applications any more (which is going to happen in the future, by means 
of a separate commandline application which can be used by picard, as 
far as I understood from the blog and wiki resources).

> I would rather spend my time working on new features that make our 
> community better. I've spend enough time this year on acoustic 
> fingerprinting stuff. I want to get to new grounds inside of MusicBrainz 
> -- I hate retreading old ground over and over again, just to make 
> something that is not part of our core business FREE.
> 

I can't agree more.

Yours,

Age