Discography module - in development notice

hi Guys,

I've just been comissioned to develop a discography.module for Drupal. As the name suggests, it's designed to allow site admins who manage band/artist/label sites to insert discography information into a Drupal site, without having to jump through hoops with CCK & views.

I've had enough emails from site admins, getting stuck and asking for help, to know that there would be a demand for this module. Thought I'd post a notice up here to alert the art & music group to progress.

1. Release name (node title)
2. Release type (Album/single/ep/other)
3. Release format (Vinyl/CD/DIGITAL/Cassette/DAT/DVD)
4. UPC (unique product code)
5. Record Label
6. Artist
7. Track Listing (including audio previews)
8. ISRC codes (per track)
9. Release date
10. Release information (node body)
11. Amazon/itunes/shop links.
12. Release artwork
13. Release genre

Notes

1. The settings page will allow site admins to specify which fields are included in the create content -> add release page and/or which fields are required.
2. The audio previews will, ideally, be based on the following player if it's available under GPL: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/page-player/ (the "Page as a playlist" demo) or the audio.module players if the module is enabled.
3. Version #1 will be designed for use with Drupal 6.x and to work with or without the audio.module.
4. Version #2: include a discography import option so site admins managing a site with a large discography don't have to submit each release individually.
5. A dicography project already exists on Drupal.org, but, it has been dormant since 2005. I've got in touch with the Drupal user who submitted that project to see what's happening.
6. Version #2: include an option to automatically submit the discography information to discogs.com and/or other webservices....such as facebook or the excellent Spotify
7. If you would like to help test and/or donate to the development costs of this project, please get in touch at http://www.DublinDrupaller.com/contact
8. If you have an idea for functionality please post a response up here.

cheers,

dub