Wikidata:Property proposal/AllMusic IDs
AllMusic Genre/Style ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work
| Description | ID of a music style/genre in AllMusic website |
|---|---|
| Represents | musical style (Q11921029), music genre (Q188451) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | item |
| Allowed values | ma[0-9]{10} |
| Example 1 | downtempo (Q251192) → ma0000012007 |
| Example 2 | nu jazz (Q1136331) → ma0000012013 |
| Example 3 | French house (Q1455292) → ma0000013529 |
| Example 4 | blues (Q9759) → ma0000002467 |
| Example 5 | country music (Q83440) → ma0000002532 |
| Source | https://www.allmusic.com/genres, https://www.allmusic.com/themes |
| Formatter URL | https://www.allmusic.com/style/$1 |
| See also | AllMovie person ID (P2019), AllMusic album ID (P1729), AllMusic composition ID (P1994), AllMusic song ID (P1730), AllMusic release ID (P6110), MusicBrainz genre ID (P8052) |
Motivation
[edit]Note that the terms style, genre and theme can be used interchangeably on AllMusic:
https://www.allmusic.com/style/ma0000002674 https://www.allmusic.com/genre/ma0000002674 https://www.allmusic.com/theme/ma0000002674
will display the same genre/style/theme. --Shisma (talk) 18:26, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Discussion
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Support--Trade (talk) 18:33, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
Comment Is it really the case that AllMusic treats "theme" the same as "genre/style" ? They seem to be separate concepts even if they share the same identifier format. See Pool Party as an example Moebeus (talk) 03:30, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
Support, but I think this should be called AllMusic Genre/Style ID, which is much simpler. You get to the top list of genres from https://www.allmusic.com/genres, but then the subgenres and styles are linked on the site with URLs starting with https://www.allmusic.com/style/. In response to Moebeus, some of the themes linked to from https://www.allmusic.com/themes could be considered genres or forms, for example background music, exercise/workout, and wedding. Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT) has a term for each of these: Background music, Exercise music, and Wedding music. But I agree that most of them would not fit under genre or style. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 00:53, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
- UWashPrincipalCataloger I thought of it more as the name of the proposal, not the name of the property. I'll change it --Shisma (talk) 17:46, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
- I wonder if "theme" is to be included? Lymantria (talk) 20:46, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- UWashPrincipalCataloger I thought of it more as the name of the proposal, not the name of the property. I'll change it --Shisma (talk) 17:46, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Done as AllMusic genre/style ID (P9185) 
WikiProject Music has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. @Shisma, Trade, Moebeus, Lymantria: UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 08:32, 22 February 2021 (UTC)