James Tauber's Blog 2005/04/20
Are We In or Were We Once In?
This morning I received an email from a prominent US film festival that I won't name. It basically started by saying "seeing as you are part of the official selection for the festival, we thought we'd provide some tips on how to promote your film".
There are issues though. Although we did apply,
- this is the first I've heard about us getting in;
- the festival is about to start;
- they don't have a tape of the film; and
- we aren't listed in the programme anyway.
So, was the mistake in the email being sent to the wrong person or did we get accepted and I never received the acceptance?
I've asked for clarification but haven't received a response yet. If today's email was in error, I would have expected a pretty prompt correction.
If, however, we did get in, somehow never found out and weren't programmed because they never received a tape from us, then I'll be really really disappointed.
UPDATE (2005-04-22): Turns out we didn't get in and the email was mistakenly sent to me. Not sure if that makes me feel better or not.
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IMDb for Music
I've long wished there were an equivalent of IMDb for music.
You would have songwriters linked to songs linked to recordings (linked to albums and producers) and performances (grouped by concerts and also linked to recordings) with both recordings and performances linked to individual performers and bands (linked to performers).
Can someone please start this? I don't have the time :-)
UPDATE (2005-04-22):
A bunch of people wrote to me and mentioned MusicBrainz (which I knew about) and allmusic (which I didn't). Allmusic definitely seems to be closest to an IMDb for Music although the openness of MusicBrainz appeals and might enable some of the more obscure information (like producer, mixing and mastering engineers) that I'm interested in. Integration with things like the ASCAP ACE Title database would be good too.
Thanks to Michael Plump, Henning Koch, Will Guaraldi, Kevin Dangoor and Gavin Burris for replying.
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