On 04/10/06, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/4/06, Chris Bransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i think the best argument for unifying artist names *where
> appropriate* (eg, not for true aliases/regional variations/other??),
> is that MP3 software and players are largely ordered by artist name.
>
> if i used the specific artist name used on all the Silver Mt Zion
> releases (http://www.discogs.com/artist/A+Silver+Mt.+Zion), their
> discography would be scattered across my itunes and ipod. to listen to
> all the ASMZ albums at once, i would have to create a playlist.
>
> it would be muchos cool if all the performance names were grouped on
> the server (solving display issue), and that the grouping name (eg, "A
> Silver Mt. Zion") could be used by the tagger (or at least, the user
> could chose it, rather than the album specific peformance name).
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I think you've all heard my arguments before :) So here's my new proposal:
1a. Have an AR that links the two MB Artists - "X changed their name
to Y" for example. A problem might arise when X changed their name to
Y, then to Z, and then back to X. We'd need to include dates or
something so that we can make the tagger figure out which is the
"current" performing name.
or 1b. Have an AR that links the two MB Artists - "Y is the most
recent performance name of X" and link all old names (X) to the newest
performance name (Y).
2. Have a variable in Picard that can let you use the
%currentArtistiName% instead of %artist%. This would quiet all the
whining of the music taggers and me :)
it's not neccesarily the most recent that is the one people would want
to tag against, though :( also this doesn't solve the problem about
having discographies spread over different pages (AR links are all
well and good but a chronological list of all albums is really nice).
i reckon the artist AR link (which remember aren't particularly
readable at the mo) wouldn't be noticed by most users and we'd just be
endlessly voting down release additions to the wrong (albeit more
popular) performance name.
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