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Listed below are comments made by mskogly between Sunday, 22nd March 2009 and Wednesday, 25th March 2009.

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Automatically linking artists and news on the BBC Music Beta 7:36pm on 25 Mar 2009 You just blew my mind a little, this is such an elegant way to build the site!
We're Live, And Looking For Feedback 5:09pm on 25 Mar 2009 Love the design, so light, and very harmonious, and very good to base it on musicbrainz.

Did you consider using the lastfm api or other services to mash up the content further? And if you did, why didn't you? Copyright issues? :)

More audio and video content would be a must really, looking forward to the return of that content.

Another grand addition could be the integration of Spotify or other music listening services, making it easy to listen to each track.
We're Changing: A Sneaky Peek 8:54pm on 22 Mar 2009 We made a crude beta for Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation last year that does a few interesting thing in conjunction with our playlists, that displays meta information, wikipedia entries, youtube videos, releases as thumbnails plus similar artists from last fm. The service is actually best on a per song level, where you can eighter listen to a song from imeem, or see the video from youtube.

We launced it as an experiment, and it sure needs a redesign and some new features, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how you present the new additions.

NRK also launced its music encyclopedia recently, which is pretty much what your "old" music beta site was, but with bought information on each (Norwegian) artist, and hand made references to internal video, audio and articles.

I like your musicbrainz integration, I think it makes your solution alot more robust and extendable than mine, which is based on eighter free text searches and music ids that only references NRKs internal music archive.

Example
http://www2.nrk.no/spillelister/LaatInfo.aspx?artist=Mari%20Boine&laat=Elle&musikkid=SARA_000366CD0002

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