Tango.info tanda id

would be nice if tango.info could be used to create tanda links and would allow resolution

Constituting elements

Constituting elements could be

• tracks (actual audio, as in the cjjsets), then a tanda is a set of tracks
• performances, a tanda
• or tracks and performances

ID forms

An ID could consist of

• IDs for the constituent parts concatenated
  • track IDs, TINTs, already exist
• have a new own ID, likely much shorter, since a lot of combinations likely never are used

ID shortening

A TIN has 14 digit, written as base 62 it could be encoded into 8 chars. http://www.google.com/search?q=62^8

URL length

A TIN-14 has 14 chars. A TINT as minimum 18 char, for 2-digit track numbers, frequently seen on CDs will has 19 char. For albums with more than 9 parts and more than 99 tracks on each part there can also be 21 char TINTs, example structure: 12345678901234-10-100. Currently in tango.info there are only TINT with 20 char, either like -10-10 or like 1-100.

An ID made of TINTs for a tanda made of 4 tracks, would then have as maximum 4 * 20 = 80 char for the TINTs and 3 for the separators, i.e. 83 chars. For 5 tracks it would be 104.

The standard tango.info base url with https, https://www.tango.info/ has 23 chars.

The URL would have a length of 106 chars for 4 tracks and of 127 chars for 5 tracks.

element	length
http	4
s	1
://	3
www.tango.info	14
/	1
08427328130301-1-1	18

Example

• http://www.tango.info/08427328130301-1-1
• http://www.tango.info/08427328130301-1-11
• http://www.tango.info/00743625545623-1-17
• http://www.tango.info/00724354169120-1-11

See also: http://www.tango.info/tools/tagger1.3.2.php?track_references=08427328130301-1-1%0D%0A08427328130301-1-11%0D%0A00743625545623-1-17%0D%0A00724354169120-1-11

Concatenated with / as for other URLs in tango.info (currently not resolving to a tanda)

• http://www.tango.info/08427328130301-1-1/08427328130301-1-11/00743625545623-1-17/00724354169120-1-11
• http://goo.gl/d1C6y