Cargo/Music

Non-database Metadata

• image
• URLs - all associated URLs, used for embedding. Some are optional.
• Website - Maybe the artist's own website where the song, album, or artist can be found.
• Soundcloud
• Bandcamp
• YouTube

Artist

Influenced strongly by the Mediawiki infobox, but somewhat simplified for the needs of internet music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_musical_artist

• Page Title - The page title should use the most widely known or current name.
• Name - A romanized name for easier reference.
• Alias - Other names for the artist, which also need to be made in redirects.
• Genres (linking) - Genres that the artist is associated with.
• Years active - Start date and end date, or -present.

Label

Often on bandcamp or when published, albums get grouped by publishing label, which provide support to their constitutent artists.

Song

Mostly descended from the basic ID3.

• title
• artist (linking) - The artist name.
• album (linking) - The album name.
• date - Full release date or just year of release.
• track (optional) - The track number of an album, if it is part of an album.
• genre (linking) - Music Genre.
• publisher (linking) -
• language - Primary language used in the song.

Album

• title.
• artist (linking)
• label (linking)
• Publisher - If not actually published by a large recording studio, the website or community it was first posted is used (Bandcamp, YouTube, Soundcloud, Reddit, even 4chan)

Genre

Music genres are good ways of grouping similar music together.

• title