+1 from me too, spoken stuff is the main reason I need to use "other" for vocals.
and since you didn't include it, this proposal expires on the 30th (around 2am CET, so still the 29th for a lot of people ;)) Nikki Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > I would like to propose adding a "spoken" attribute to the vocal tree. > The separate "Speaker Relationship Type" (RFC-55) is abandoned, and > honestly, I'd say there is no reason to consider speech as different > from the rest of the vocal tree. "speech" is a part of the advanced > vocal tree pre-proposal ( > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Advanced_Vocal_Tree ), but I would rather > have it available soon, not when/if that huge project is finished, and > it being already present only makes it easier to work on that proposal > anyway. > > I would put Spoken as a subtype of Other, which I think both makes > sense in general and will avoid speech ARs set to Other from being > "wrong". It is also where it is situated in the Advanced Vocal Tree > pre-proposal. > > I haven't created a wiki page for this, as I think it is a minor > change, it doesn't change a guideline nor creates a new AR and I hope > it will be quite straightforward. > > A small sample of tracks that need this (which anyway makes it go over > the 5 releases that would be needed to add a new instrument, for > example) is here: http://musicbrainz.org/show/tag/?tag=vocal-voice > Of course, that is not counting the (as of now 7714) audiobook > releases, the (as of now 4641) spokenword releases and the (as of now > 436) interview releases, which are probably all (or nearly all) > spoken. > _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
