Future Work

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Future MusicBrainz Development Work

These are proposals that are planned for the future of MusicBrainzDevelopment.

  • Please only put links to topics here that are not already being worked on.
  • If you have just an idea or a suggestion, it should first go to NewFeatureSuggestions for comments and feedback, and only be listed here once the proposal has stabilized.
  • Things that are actually being worked on belong in CurrentWork.

Please do not just add a new list item but use TextInsteadOfLists to describe the feature in two sentences. See also TurningYourIdeasIntoReality or HowToWriteFeatureSuggestions for help on how to do that.

-- DonRedman



Next Generation Schema

NextGenerationSchema summarizes all efforts working towards the next database schema change which should bring MusicBrainz data to a new generation. :) It covers all work on album grouping, album attribute and release data changes, TrackGrouping, multiple artist support and much more.

After a pretty heated debate on GettingRidOfFeaturingArtistStyle this has led to quite general thoughts like DisentangleInterfacesFromSchema and to the attempt to describe the things that a NextGenerationSchema would have to deal with in an ObjectModel.

Survival of the Fittest / Wiki Style Moderation

SurvivalOfTheFittest/WikiStyleModeration is a completely new moderation system that works a bit like a Wiki. It was introduced by RjMunro. See also AdvancedModeration (deals also with the EditorRating). It is unlikely that we will implement it by making a big change to MusicBrainz but there are small StepsTowardsSurvivalOfTheFittest that may already be part of the CurrentWork.

Moderation Improvements

The page ModerationImprovements itself lists to many different items and should probably be split. E.g. CommunicationBetweenEditors needs to be split out (especially since it has already been implemented, mostly).

There are also plans for a KarmaSystem: EditorRating -- There is also some stuff on it in AdvancedModeration. However these are still a BigMess.

Mix O Matic

PetervanHardenberg has started conceptual work on MixOMatic in May 2004 -- an engine that would allow to make intelligent music recomendations.

Quality and Quantity

QualityAndQuantity is a proposal for a new edit and voting system that would work with AlbumLocking.

Additional Metadata

  • The following two proposals can be implemented in an ad-hoc way using the new ArtistAnnotation and AlbumAnnotation support; the points raised in their discussions are still very relevant, but we should probably wait until we see how these work out as annotations before creating a more structured format. @alex There was a suggestion to add MusicReviews to the database (in Feb 2003). But it seems that there will be no work on this before AdvancedRelationships have been rolled out. There was another suggestion to add an ArbitraryURLFeature to the database (in May 2003), which would have added a variety of external links to artist/album pages.

Data Trivia

A design to display DataTrivia pulled from the database is proposed by Shepard. Also, other ideas and suggestions are listed. --Zout