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> Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify
by Guillaume86 5y ago
> Just as an example, if I wanted to get a list of every song I liked on Spotify and import it into Apple Music, how would that even work? The songId of Spotify is undoubtedly different than the one Apple uses. Are Apple and Spotify supposed to agree on a common file format?
I understand your point but FYI music is a poor example as there is solutions to port metadata in that case. MusicBrainz aims to standardize music metadata and it is pretty commonly used. An example I know is the lastfm service, their APIs accept an optional mbid: https://www.last.fm/api/show/track.updateNowPlaying https://www.last.fm/api/show/track.updateNowPlaying.
- cbm-vic-20 5y agoShould music streaming services be compelled to support MusicBrainz to support this GDPR case simply because it is commonly used? Who decides that mbid is the GDPR-accepted track identifier?
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- iatt 5y agoIn contrast to requiring a particular standard to represent metadata, the better way is to require that the exported data be machine-readable and its contents documented. This gives providers the flexibility to innovate, adding their own identifiers or whatever useful data they want, but avoids legislators forcing everyone to use a common standard that, while useful today, can quickly go out of date. Competitors can then write converters or importers based on this documentation, as could motivated FOSS users.