Could it be at least improved by teaching it to recognize some words like band, orchestra, quartet... ?
2009/3/4 Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com> > I don't object, but I just want to point out that this change would > essentially make the "Guess" function for this type of sortname, on the > edit/add artist pages, worthless, as there is no way that a script can know > what is or is not a artist name within a group name. > > Brian > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > <davito...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> The only thing that may be a problem for me here is that I'll have to >> remember I must stop swapping those names since Picard will automatically >> use the names I want :-D >> >> 2009/3/2 Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hell...@gmail.com> >> >>> No strong opinions here :) >>> - Afficher le texte des messages précédents - >>> >>> Paul C. Bryan wrote: >>> > I interpret the word eponymous to mean anything named after a >>> particular >>> > person (not just an artist lending their name to something), which >>> would >>> > therefore currently include these examples of quartets named after >>> > deceased composers. >>> > >>> > I don't mind these quartets being sorted by their namesakes, but others >>> > (you?) may have a strong opinion one way or the other. If this seems >>> too >>> > broad, then I suppose we may need to further constrain it. >>> > >>> > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:15 +0100, Leiv Hellebo wrote: >>> >> Paul C. Bryan wrote: >>> >>> Proposal: >>> >>> Change the last bullet of #6 in SortNameStyle to read as follows: >>> >>> Artist names that contain a person's name (usually eponymous band >>> names) >>> >>> sort as the person primarily, with remaining identifiers as >>> >>> comma-separated suffixes. Examples: "The Sensational Alex Harvey >>> Band" >>> >>> has sort name "Harvey, Alex, Sensational, Band, The". "The Jimi >>> Hendrix >>> >>> Experience" has sort name "Hendrix, Jimi, Experience, The". >>> >> Not that I mind (much), but I'd like to have clarified if you want: >>> >> >>> >> Berg, Alban, Quartet >>> >> Haas, Pavel, Quartet >>> >> >>> >> These two quartets were formed long after the composers were dead. >>> >> >>> >> (I am not sure how "usually eponymous band names" should be >>> understood, >>> >> but perhaps it means exactly that you'd like "Berg, Alban, Quartet"?) >>> >> >>> >> Leiv >>> >> -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org
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