Hi, While Kuno and I were talking about the special purpose track titles, we ended up completely disagreeing about when the same recordings should be used.
My opinion on [silence] is that 2 seconds of silence is 2 seconds of silence so it would be the same recording regardless of the artist or release (I would personally just use a single [silence] recording by [no artist] with no length set for all silent tracks) Kuno however thinks silence on one release is not the same as silence on another release or by another artist, so they should only be merged if they're the same length, on the same album and by the same artist. Then for [data track], there was a suggestion to merge data tracks and simply have [data track] by [data]. To me it seems really weird to merge completely different data tracks but keep silent tracks separate. Kuno thinks that since it's just a placeholder and we don't store information about the data tracks (we don't store information about silent tracks either...?), that it's fine to merge them (although it wasn't his suggestion originally and he just doesn't really mind either way). I'm guessing we'll probably just end up not saying anything in the guidelines for now and seeing what people do, but I'm still interested in what other people think. Nikki P.S. I'm only referring to actual [silence] tracks, not the ones which are "creative" silence like 4'33" (or whatever it's called) and not ones which aren't really silent (I wouldn't use [silence] at all if it's not actually silent). _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
