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I'm doing some volunteer work on a project for a basement sound engineer and publisher who has a large collection of recordings from conventions, and wants to crowdsource identification of them with the people who attend those conventions. The idea is that people would be able to log in to a website, see a list of short clips they can play, and enter identifying information such as song title, performers, and instruments. It occurs to me that this might have broader usefulness among libraries, archives, and researchers. If so, it may be worth expanding this into a bigger open-source project and seeking crowdfunding for developing it further, getting nice graphics, etc. (Crowdfunding for crowdsourcing just seems right.) On the other hand, the most common result when I come up with a great idea is discovering that someone else has already done it better than I could. Obviously there are copyright issues. That's why only logged-in users with a legitimate need can play the clips for identification purposes. There may be other protections as well, such as limited-time availability. So I'm interested in thoughts on this. Does it duplicate something that already exists? Would it be generally useful? -- Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer http://www.garymcgath.com