On 18/03/2019 18:55, Jac Brown wrote:


"DerbyBorn" wrote in message
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whisky-dave wrote in
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On Monday, 18 March 2019 14:19:32 UTC, DerbyBorn* wrote:
We take for granted that we can find music on the Web - and Artist
details will be available about the track.

However, I find myself wondering who keyed in the information to make
it available. When was it done and what was the incentive - who owned
it, etc.

That depends on many things, smaller band will do this sort of stuff
themselves including art work and videos, and will write their won
music and lyrics.

While some of the larger more 'popular' might well have people write
and do everything for them.


I was thinking of the historic stuff - created before there was a need
for
the info.

Likely the same as wikipedia, some chose to do it without any particular
incentive or ownership involved.

When you fill details for tracks in on Windows Media Player yourself,
does it submit them back to the databases that it normally picks up
from? A few like entries could automatically update the databases.

SteveW