On 22-Apr-08, at 7:06 PM, Brian Schweitzer wrote: > When we had the lengthy debate about keeping this type of info in > release titles, the two convincing arguments to those of us who > wanted to see it completely removed there as well were: > 1) ARs don't show in toc-add view, and facing 150 12-track releases > identified solely as "Requiem" was far from ideal, and > 2) We don't yet have a way to search for release title + ARs on the > release pairs; keeping the info in the release titles for the time > being allows this type of searching, until the system can handle > such combinatory searching. > > I'm sorry, but I just don't see either as applying to track titles, > and I don't think we ought to be even further extending already > overlong classical titles by putting data into them that ought to be > in the AR fields that exist for that data, just because some > software or devices doesn't support tag fields which have existed at > least since ID3v2.2 came out in 1998, ten years ago: > > 4.2.1 TCM Composer > 4.2.1 TOA Original artist(s)/performer(s) > 4.2.1 TOL Original Lyricist(s)/text writer(s) > 4.2.1 TP1 Lead artist(s)/Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)/Performing group > 4.2.1 TP2 Band/Orchestra/Accompaniment > 4.2.1 TP3 Conductor/Performer refinement > 4.2.1 TXT Lyricist/text writer
If Track ARs are used, I believe they will be visible when selecting releases for TOCs. Searching is still an issue, but we could have a number of solutions to this problem (One possibility is to use performers as release artists... another would be to change search to include ARs). -Aaron _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
