On 14/08/07, Brian Schweitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Proposed: Change the wording to "The song must have been re-recorded: > > > where the same original source tracks are used, the track-track > > "Earliest > > > Release of AR" should be used instead." > > > > > > > yes - change this straight away IMO. i think it must have been a mistake > > > > > > > > As this one is a wiki issue, rather than a style or AR change, and > corrects something that's clearly wrong as it is, I'm going to go ahead and > change it now. If anyone objects, just let me know, and we can revert back > to the sentence as it is now. > > On 6c, drsaunde contacted me and clarified that he's understood that one > to be for the "A&R support provided by" type of listing in album credits. > That definitely helps to clarify what that AR is, though I think it still > would much better be a artist-track and artist-url (homepage) AR, rather > than shortcutting around the artist and going right to a webpage. > > > i think the point of these might be when a website is quoted on the > sleeve, > > rather than a person/company. i guess you could easily infer the actual > > company from these, add that to MBz, then do an 'official homepage' AR > but > > then it seems a bit of a 'waste' of an artist, and indeed contrary to > how > > this info is presented on sleeves. i think we could leave this as it is. > > It could be, though if that is what was meant, there's a definate need > that such be clarified in the wiki. I have to admit, I'd not even thought > of that view - though I can't recall the last time I actually saw a liner > list a credit to a website like that, I guess it could happen.
in my collection i've seen it many times, but then i probably stare at liner note small print more that most - blame discogs + ARs :) However, if such is the intent, we need to make sure that these track-urls > specify that such is the only case one would use these ARs, and I still > think these also ought to all be, for the ones that currently aren't such, > also able to be set as artist-track ARs, for those times when a name, and > not a URL, is used in the liner. My sense is, if an artist is credited on > the liner, then it's our representing that credit by linking to an entry for > that artist. Such would seem to never be a wasted artist, imho... well, we can only link an artist in the first place if they are a musical entity. you can't add legal firms, etc, to musicbrainz, so the website AR is the only way to refer to them as an AR at all. in my experience it's only artwork guys that are occasionally musical artists, but not often.
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