In a bid to improve the accuracy of artist profile pages, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time on cleaning up the problem of false positives occuring when media is retrieved and matched to artists.
One major step in this process is bringing good quality, official music videos into the fold. From today, music videos are available for many artists listed in the Compendium, courtesy of MTV Networks. MTV Networks encompasses not only MTV itself, but VH1, CMT and Logo; meaning that a wide variety of artist videos are served.
From worldwide artists such as Led Zeppelin and Britney Spears, to some of the excellent, but perhaps not so far-reaching, artists like Fleet Foxes and TV On the Radio.
In the event that there aren’t any official videos available, the Compendium will still fall back on Youtube as a source of video goodness and attempt to sift through the chaff of potential matches for the artist being viewed. I’m keen to keep this an option at all times, as user-submitted videos are often more revealing about an artist than carefully planned and meticulously orchestrated official videos ever can be – peculiar fan films, shaky concert and festival footage from the pit, interviews from late-night TV you’d otherwise miss and much more.
Since this is brand new, you may experience a few teething issues. I’m still investigating a few details surrounding the broadcast of music videos, and the availability of these videos across the World. Music is global, but copyright and content licenses are sadly xenophobic areas. And currently just a randomised selection of official videos are being shown for each page-view – paging through videos akin to the way Youtube videos are displayed is due shortly.
Oh, and if you happen to find the Compendium a useful tool, please take a moment to vote for it on Programmable Web -it was a proud “Mashup of the Day” at the end of last month-and feel free to add any suggestions or comments to this journal entry.
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