My goal is to encourage more people to add more sample relations to MusicBrainz, so I might add a quick-edit interface to add sample connections right on the song page.
Let me know if you have any suggestions for this project.
On the homepage, I discovered a sample I didn’t know on a track I know well. Interesting!
It could be nice to be able to filter by (owned) release collection.
Exactly. A sample is a portion of a recording that’s been copied and reused in a new song. It’s the foundation of hip hop, electronic, pop, and other genres.
This might get rejected but… What about covers of works / Music quoting? They fit the same vibes as samples. It’s not outright taking the recording, but still taking the melody
MusicBrainz only has these recording-to-recording relationship types. To simplify them, I’ve now combined them into “Samples” (sample material, mash-ups, DJ mixes), “Remixes”, and “Other versions” (instrumental, karaoke, a cappella).
I’d love to add covers, interpolations, lyrical quotations, and especially timestamps of first appearance of each sample, but this would require either new tables/columns in MusicBrainz’ database, or supplemental tables in SampleBrainz’ own database.
