Re: [Librefm-discuss] Libre.fm as the central place for obtaining free music

[Matija Šuklje]

Dne nedelja 28. februarja 2010 ob 01:49:20 je Jon Spriggs napisal(a):
> Because the music doesn't actually belong to
> libre.fm, I suspect this is why there may be issues with putting the
> download links straight into the API, however, if we could get buy-in
> from labels such as Jamendo, then I guess the first thing to do is to
> break this into parts.

As I said in a previous reply, I don't see a problem since we're handling free 
music under (strong) copyleft licenses — when using e.g. a(ny) CC license, you 
don't need permission to share the work in its verbatim form (unless NC 
applies and you're using it for a commercial cause).

But I'll double-check on it, just in case.
 
> 1) Add an extension to the API which provides an index of torrent and
> magnet links. This is non-intrusive - it doesn't affect the current
> API at all, and is purely an additional function we can call.

Cool :)

> 2) Ask Jamendo (for example) to make their bittorrent indexes
> available to libre.fm - add this data to the existing GNUkebox store
> of data about these tracks and albums

Getting the netlables to do this themselves or at least offer this data to the 
public, would make great sense, yeah.

I was thinking of making this client-side, but there might be a problem with 
how to check the license and/or if the content is really what it says it is. 
If the netlables would join in, this would be a lot easier.

> This would require buy-in from Jamendo and the Libre.fm project to
> confirm whether they want to progress down this path.

Are you sure? Why? O_o

> 3) Amend existing clients to add this functionality (that is, query
> the API for bittorrent/magent links; add a button to the client
> reflecting this status; on-click, trigger the launch of the bittorrent
> client of choice using the link supplied by the API). It should be
> noted that this is in-line with StatusNet's reuse of the twitter API,
> adding extensions to it reflecting the support provided by the
> extended functions of the StatusNet codebase which has had very little
> (if no?) detriment to the support for twitter applications. If
> Libre.FM clients can be upgraded to permit the integration of several
> different bittorrent downloaders, then this can only be positive! :)

I don't quite follow what this has got to do with StatusNet (ex Laconi.ca). 
Could you kindly explain it a bit more?


Cheers,
Matija

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