Dave Haynes

• @mbites Songza rules. And you can add tracks directly to your twitter feed! #
• @pete_bug what’s the keynote? #

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• testing out wauw.fm. Another button added to the celestial jukebox. Not convinced it’s gonna be great, but want to find out. #
• and why won’t my songkicker work? Giving me authentication failure? #

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• about to watch the film ‘Once’. Been looking forward to it for ages. #

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• got some awful tune stuck in my head. Someone please recommend some music for me to listen to right now. #
• why’s M Arrington jumping off (http://snurl.com/22tqa) and labelling things as taxes (http://snurl.com/22tqd). Too early to call? #
• awesome!!! just got tickets for Jools Holland BBC show on Tuesday. Think its a live recording. Tune in. http://snurl.com/22uan #
• its the weekend already! #

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• http://snurl.com/22pkh. Songbird 0.5 Final Released. Device support, can’t wait to plug my N95 in and sync up. #
• why don’t many labels bother to input data for their CDs to Gracenote? There’s no point scrobbling Track 01! #
• off to the paidContent mixer #
• leaving the mixer event and damn I forgot to twitter it. @pete_bug twitter envy #

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In my years of working in digital distribution I’m sad to say that I have had actual nightmares involving metadata. You’d be very surprised to see just how slack some labels are at being able to provide accurate metadata for their own content. So imagine the challenge when you throw that job back out to the general public. Two posts about metadata caught my eye this morning. Firstly a pure gem on the Last.fm blog which amused me with the Top 100 ways to write: Guns N’ Roses – Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (yes, there really is 100). And then a quick post on the Soundcloud blog about empowering their users to add their own metadata on the Soundcloud service (still in private beta but looking awesome so far.

It’s clear that music metadata is becoming increasingly important and all efforts to tame what is the stuff of nightmares are very welcome in my book. Will services likeLast.fm, MusicBrainz and Discogs lead the way in this area and what role should the actual content owners play in this?

UPDATE: just seen another funny post about metadata. Must have been having the same thought process at the same time!

• attn Outlook users, have 2 Xobni beta invites left. #
• imeem launch developer platform. WIll be interesting to hear feedback on it http://snurl.com/22kok #
• @pete_bug Hilarious! Have you seen Eagle vs Shark? Not checked yet but apparently has Jemaine from Flight Of Conchords in. #

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• strange weather this weekend. Just stepped out into light snow and hail! #

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• Groove Armada signing with Bacardi. Wtf?! #
• the headers on DJDownload newsletter r usually funny. This made me laugh (and feel pretty bad). Easter is cancelled! http://snurl.com/2284z #

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• iPod unlimited? http://snurl.com/223eu - I can’t see it happening straight away, but it’s still a strong concept #
• heard this last nite. Not classic Portishead (yet) but damn those beats are heavy! Can’t wait for the album http://songza.com/z/tz230j #
• @pete_bug The Stefan i know (Stefan B)? Lucky guy indeed!! I tried to get tickets for London and failed miserably #
• @pete_bug wow - the perks of the job! Will hit you up on MSN tomorrow by the way 2 discuss OMMM. #

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