| Put these together - Music is one of the most searched items on Google - Google knows about a lot of MP3s on the nets - Google knows how to read the ID3 tags in MP3s So Google could index all those MP3s and allow you to search on things like bitrate. Now I can think of all sorts of reasons why Google doesn't currently do that. But somebody could. In fact somebody should. Next stop, metadata in video leading to better video search. A which point I realized I have no idea what metadata standards there are for embedding information in anything apart from MP3. You would expect that WMA, AAC, MP4, etc etc would have a similar scheme to ID3. There's a few private sharing systems appearing as plug ins for Skype such as Pando and SkySpace. These things allow a small group of people to share privately among themselves. What's missing in these is the ability to search for a specific file or group of files. And that's a key feature for P2P systems. It's why Soulseek works so well. It's not enough to just find a copy of John Martyn's "Sundays Child" You need to know that it's encoded with LAME -presetstandard at 192Kb VBR before knowing if it's worth downloading. |
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