Just under the “uses samples from” list—-have I just missed this up to now or is it new? this is a great idea. Really nice to have all that info and links. Old or new i like it.

I also noticed it only today. So it must be new or maybe we are getting old. ;-)

Take a look here. 50 artists in one metamix.

This got checked in and turned on the ccM server quite by accident last night. Once I realized it was in and on I figured I’d let it fly. People have been asking for something like it for a while. This particular implementation was inspired by a conversation with Loveshadow.

I wouldn’t claim it’s the most complete feature on the site but I certainly don’t have the time to make any more tweaks to it.

very cool and a nice visual.

UPDATE: I’m leaving my original post here, because of the response by LS below, but upon re-reading it, I realize that this post is nitpicking about the inherent limitations of attribution trees, rather than celebrating the significant addition this new tree really is to ccM (see my post further below). Sorry about that!

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However in licensing remixes one of the tricky issues is, that grandchild remixes are not necessarily derived from their grandparents, because the grandchild remix maybe only used parts that the parent introduced as new elements.

For example in my remix Unforgiven I used just TheJoe’s piano from TheJoe’s “Go With Me” and not a single snippet from “Go With It” by Mandyleigh Storm”.

On the other side of that same remixing parent tree the ancestry tree is cut off at Kaer Trouz’s vocal track, because she uploaded it as a separate upload (rather than a secondary file like TheJoe had done for his piano part above). KT’s pell was really a component of a remix of hers using a Loveshadow guitar track also uploaded as a separate file, but which in turn was originally used for a Loveshadow remix of a Jhony El Maalouf pell.

This is just to illustrate that a remixing attribution tree is pretty much impossible to do with technical means alone, therefore an attribution tree is a really interesting starting point to assist in research, but one can’t expect too much from it.

I personally think its excellent.

My conversation with Fourstones was simply one of recognising the historical components of a remix and the people. Apparently its something that was here before so my thoughts were not that original.

Its always been something that you could do before but with a lot of reverse clicking.

The thinking was that when a remix that features a large component of another earlier work starts moving away from the original source, often casual listeners will credit perhaps a vocalist re mixer on their say piano skills not fully understanding how it has evolved from someone else’s piano abilities.

This new tab almost creates the remix band members and sleeve notes.

I also like the graphical element it injects into the remix page and cool to see the collected avatars

I like it and will use it i know.

The other fact is that for people who visit the site to listen causally or to search for stuff then its another clicky search feature. That may encourage greater use of the site in some way or the source parts if they dont happen to like me warbling all over them. :-)

I apologize for not having done this more clearly in my previous post:

I think the new tree is a wonderful mechanism to ensure multi-generation attribution is given on ccM. A big to VS for putting it in! And it provides a road map for contacting potential copyright holders if one should desire to license for a commercial purpose.

It may over-attribute a little, but I don’t think there’s any way to avoid that.