[Playlist] RDF music metadata spec

[Matthias Friedrich]

On Friday, 2007-01-05, Robert Kaye wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote:

>> Wow!  That's a huge shift.

> Yep, but its been a long time in coming for us. Who else uses RDF? I  
> can't think of any significant adoptions of RDF in recent times.

I must admit I'm a bit sad about it, but the change makes sense for us.
People simply didn't care enough about RDF to understand it and we ended
up with lots of support inquiries and frustrated users. Ironically,
MMD can be seen as a limited version of RDF which shares much of RDF's
extensibility. Our experiences with XSPF (and also RDF) helped us a lot
to design a powerful XML format.

>> Is the new format designed in a way that would make sense as an
>> extension vocabulary for XSPF, Rob?

> Yes!

MMD uses a new and much improved terminology [1] which is now used
throughout MusicBrainz as well. The quoted Music Ontology uses the
old MusicBrainz terminology which we abandoned for good reasons.

Cheers,
	Matthias

[1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/XMLWebService#head-d4f54d1535002889e5607614c80250e870ccb62e