[mb-users] the 'Music' in MusicBrainz

[Robert Kaye]

On Feb 3, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Jan van Thiel wrote:

> Is was wondering what you think of the word 'Music' in MusicBrainz.
> Actually, all non-music in MusicBrainz, especially the audiobooks and
> some spokenword releases (e.g. language courses, speeches by
> politicians).
>
> I don't think they deserve a place in 'Music'Brainz. I think the
> reason they're here is because they're all released on CD and hence
> were (auto)imported from freedb/with Picard.


My take on it is that we provide a CD lookup service and I'm hoping  
that this will soon turn into a source of income that will enable us  
to hire more people. If we start disallowing CDs that are not music,  
then we're crippling our offering and that will make us less viable as  
a service.

I would prefer to have us index all of these CDs, short of home-brews  
and aim for MusicBrainz to become a useful CD lookup database.

Some of these data bits certainly don't seem to fit well. Rather than  
disallowing them, can we somehow find a way that they won't bother our  
users who focus more on music?

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