Translating the Music Database

[Andreas_Buchloh]

Hi there,

I don´t know if this is the right place to post my issue which is more a question or a proposal. Sorry if I am wrong here or missed something.

I really like your approach to make the (ever growing) community participate in translating Roon.
However as far as I can see only roon itself has been translated not the comprehensive database of material on music.

With that legions of motivated members behind you, wouldn´t it be great to make roon even more international by translating the music database?

I´d be happy to contribute some German bits.

Regards

Andreas

[florib]

I assume that you mean reviews in particular.
As for reviews, there have already been some feature requests to be able to edit them yourself. By the way, I think this is a better idea than translating the existing ones, which is of course also problematic for copyright reasons, as well as other data provided by Roon.

Your idea itself I find good, but I think that this would mean an unmanageable mountain of work.

In the AI age there would certainly be the possibility to automate this process. What comes out of it, however, is something else again.

[beka]

Hey @Andreas_Buchloh,

Thanks so much for sharing what would make Roon even better for you, and not just you. As @florib has mentioned, what you’re describing is a feature request:

Artist description translate into other languages

AFAIK is AllMusic.com (which I always tend to substitute with AllAmericanMusic in my mind ) the only provider for this kind of content in Roon and doesn’t offer any non-english content. The problem is, that such content is generally copyrighted. So what should Roon do? The only thing that comes in to my mind, is sending the contents to a online translation service (like eg. translate.google.com), fetching the result and present that instead. What are possible drawbacks of such a solution? …

There are a few others you can find here.