Ideas
Music Library Index
There are many databases on the internet with lists of what songs are on what CD, which we can download when we rip to MP3's. However, these days we are moving away from the idea of albums and getting back to listening to personalised playlists of individual songs. Since the BBC must have one of the best music libraries in the world, it would be possible for the BBC to host a master index of every song ever published, and give it a unique number like an ISBN number on a book. If everyone used the same index, it would become much easier to find and buy a recording of a specific track. It would become the music equivilant of the British Library and the Congressional Library.
- 01 Dec 2005 12:15 PM
an excellent idea, on the sort of scale the bbc could be thinking too