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ASIN Clarification
by Christopher Key
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Hello,
I'm hoping to get some clarification on the exact requirements for
making an ASIN suitable to link to.
Quite a lot of releases, especially singles, are only available second
hand through third party sellers, and the data on their Amazon page is
often quite lacking, with no official cover art, or no art at all, and
occasionally no tracklisting. I do however feel that linking to such
releases does provide useful information.
Firstly, if someone is attempting to acquire a specific release, the
lack of information from Amazon may well make this very difficult. A
correct tracklisting / Catalog # / barcode from MusicBrainz pointing to
a specific ASIN would be very useful.
Secondly, whilst no coverart may be available via AWS, end users can
still acquire coverart directly, or via some suitable scripted method.
Moreover, Amazon may in the future add official coverart, and this would
then automatically become available to MusicBrainz.
Finally, it provides a useful replacement for the large number of
incorrect ASINs currently in the system. There are a lot of cases where
a set of identically titled albums (with different tracklistings) have
all been attached to the same ASIN. My concern is that should these
simply be removed, they will end up getting reattached by users wanting
coverart.
Obviously some care needs to be taken to ensure correct data. Simply
having bought a item with a given ASIN from a 3rd party seller perhaps
isn't sufficient. However, AWS does allow UPC lookups, and I guess that
this probably is sufficient. The second problem is that MusicBrainz
assumes that the presence of an ASIN means that cover art is available,
and ends up displaying an ugly box in cases where it isn't. I guess
this should however be a relatively easy fix.
Any feedback / clarification would be nuch appreciated.
Regards,
Christopher Key
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I'm hoping to get some clarification on the exact requirements for
making an ASIN suitable to link to.
Quite a lot of releases, especially singles, are only available second
hand through third party sellers, and the data on their Amazon page is
often quite lacking, with no official cover art, or no art at all, and
occasionally no tracklisting. I do however feel that linking to such
releases does provide useful information.
Firstly, if someone is attempting to acquire a specific release, the
lack of information from Amazon may well make this very difficult. A
correct tracklisting / Catalog # / barcode from MusicBrainz pointing to
a specific ASIN would be very useful.
Secondly, whilst no coverart may be available via AWS, end users can
still acquire coverart directly, or via some suitable scripted method.
Moreover, Amazon may in the future add official coverart, and this would
then automatically become available to MusicBrainz.
Finally, it provides a useful replacement for the large number of
incorrect ASINs currently in the system. There are a lot of cases where
a set of identically titled albums (with different tracklistings) have
all been attached to the same ASIN. My concern is that should these
simply be removed, they will end up getting reattached by users wanting
coverart.
Obviously some care needs to be taken to ensure correct data. Simply
having bought a item with a given ASIN from a 3rd party seller perhaps
isn't sufficient. However, AWS does allow UPC lookups, and I guess that
this probably is sufficient. The second problem is that MusicBrainz
assumes that the presence of an ASIN means that cover art is available,
and ends up displaying an ugly box in cases where it isn't. I guess
this should however be a relatively easy fix.
Any feedback / clarification would be nuch appreciated.
Regards,
Christopher Key
_______________________________________________
MusicBrainz-users mailing list
MusicBrainz-users@...
http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users
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