I am sure many of us all use diferent systems to file music under and unforunately thats been making life hard for the dgital rights cretins to track whats what
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6068601.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnetIn an effort to better track digital music sales, several big-name record companies, digital music services and music rights agencies have founded a consortium called Digital Data Exchange.
Founding members of the consortium include artists' rights group ASCAP, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and EMI Music, as well as several other music rights societies and agencies from the U.S., U.K. and Europe. Apple Computer, Microsoft and RealNetworks, which all provide digital music services, are also charter members
The purpose of DDEX (pronounced "dee-dex") is to establish standards for the meta-data in digital music files, mainly for sales and rights-tracking purposes.
A long-term goal for DDEX is to eventually standardize the meta-data consumers use to digitally sort and organize their music.
Diversity is a preffered way to go in my outlook having seen the results of allowing monopolies to form.
I cannot see anyone except the Music Mafia gaining from this.
