i've always thought that 'special notes' section was a load of rubbish
"If the release is a single, of course one of the tracks is going to be the
"album version"" - err, no. often (VERY often) there is a single edit for
singles - imagine the following single tracklisting (as printed on liner
notes):
1) Funky Shit
2) Funky Shit (album version)
through magic musicbrainz info-losing vision:
1) Funky Shit
2) Funky Shit
brilliant. sure you could say that this was an exception to that rule, but i
say why ever get rid of this info? yeah it can be redundant, but who cares?
where's the harm in keeping it? i see more harm in dropping it as easy as we
do.
it's my general problem with our apparent style philosophy - IMO the
guidelines should be there to add consistancy to existing data, not
arbitarily add and remove data as we see fit. same with the whole (feat. x)
situation - people were adding (feat. x) when it was useful to them, rather
than whether it was mentioned on the tracklisting.
sticking to tracklistings would make a whole lot of stupid rules and
discussions dissapear overnight i think. bah...rant over.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Decklin Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 9:48 PM
Subject: [mb-style] redundant ExtraTitleInformation
I see that ExtraTitleInformation says "the content of this page needs
some review". I am trying to figure out what information such as "(album
version)" is considered incidental, and how "generally" should be
applied. Is there some consensus on this particular part of the page? I
have a few mods open pertaining to this and I'd like them to stay open
if this needs more discussion.
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4027356
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4027378
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4027396
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4027397
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things change.
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