I think you make a very good point about the high quality of attribution here. I have had at least one of the magnatune folks compliment the clear and easy attribution here. So it’s not a question of “don’t v. do”, but only of “mixter does great already, is there room for slight improvement”.

I am no expert on java/flash, but I did have an idea that was much less intricate.

I think about how with a youtube video, one can just copy the embed code for the video to put it on one’s page.

What I suggest is simpler than all that hardcore embedding (no puns, please). I suggest that one be able to click on a button at the song’s page that says “click here for an attribution banner”. The banner would be nothing more than a stylish “CCMixter remix—Song credits here!”. The banner, in turn, or more properly perhaps a little badge or box, would be a hyperlink back to the mixter song page. One could copy and paste it into one’s webpage.


Then on the song page, above the list of credits, a little text would say:

“Here are the credited samples for this song. Click on each sample to see any sample credits it provides”.



This solution is inelegant, but it’s useful, not programming-intensive, and it’s an indirect ad for the site, because, voila!, when a webpage post the banner, it brings people to the mixter with one click. It’s also podcaster-friendly, because the webpage or weblog for the podcast could just use the banner to give easy attribution.

I think what mixter has now is great, and it is the best attribution on the web, but this idea still appealed enough to me to suggest here.

Quote: fourstonesyea, again, I would appreciate it if we don’t perpetuate the false meme that somehow credit is lost at ccM, we are, again, the best site on the web for tracking attribution.

Sure, I don`t want to spread that opinion. My intention was to refer to some past discussion about it. Attribution always was and probably will be a subject of polemic here.

Quote: fourstoneswe actually had a tree in the first incarnation of ccM and while it was interesting academically it confused a bunch of users and really didn’t make remixing more productive so we figured being one click away from the ‘parent’ would have to do.


Heh, So looks like I tried to invent a wheel:-)

Quote: fourstoneswe’ve had several really cool graphical projects get almost there so I’ve backed off a boring html/pdf version and made it lower priority, hoping some sexy Java/Flash programmer would step up and finish that…

I am not expert so pdf was only example….
And I agree that this is low priority feature, not connected with “productivity” ;-)and it`s academically interesting (remix genetics) :-)

Heh…
How ‘bout them crazy forum genetics?…