Had a good chat with Adrian Likins, Steven Salevan and Luke Macken today about what a "music collaboration server" might look like. Here's a whole firehose full of notes. To Adrian/Steven/Luke, this'll probably mean more -- but any questions, feel free to ask. :) We're getting together again here in Red Hat HQ to brainstorm more about possible clients on Thursday. For those of you on the list who aren't from around here, apologies, and we'll start filling in gaps soon. --g ======================================================================= The Four Steps -------------- 1. EXPORT TOOLS AND RULES. Figure out how to get output from every major music production tool into a simple, common format. If it's tools that plug in to GarageBand/Steinberg/Logic, great. If it's a 20-step HOWTO for each of those tools, great. The end result: wav/midi files, per track, that can be easily shared. 2. DEFINE COMMON METADATA FORMAT. Rough database schema follows. 3. REPOSITORY FOR METADATA. Ditto. 4. UPLOAD TOOLS. We need some simple way of getting "sharable" data into the system initially. The WAG at Schema ----------------- user email varchar password varchar asset (a superclass, subclassed per asset type) id varchar (md5sum) creator_id fk (user.email) license_id fk (license table) uri varchar creation_date date music_asset (a subclass of asset, we thus leave the possibility of video/clipart/etc.) asset_id fk (asset.id) lyric_id fk (lyric.id) (nullable) type? (midi/wav/loop/etc?) key? varchar? tempo? varchar? bpm? int? others? lyric id varchar (md5sum) author fk (user.email) authored_date date song id varchar (md5sum) producer_id fk (user.email) uri varchar production_date date song_tracks song_id fk (song.id) track_id fk (music_asset.asset_id) track_parent track_id fk (music_asset.asset_id) parent_id fk (music_asset.asset_id) Other stuff: tagging schema for songs and tracks --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-music-list mailing list Fedora-music-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list
