On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:29, Maurits Meulenbelt <maurits.meulenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't all silent tracks on a release have an artistic purpose? Otherwise I > don't think they would be on the release. I'd keep them separate.
Following the guidelines technically, all “[silent]” tracks should be recordings of the same work, composed by “[anonymous]”, performed, arranged, mastered, etc, by whoever the cover credits them to (there can be cases both for the performing artist being “[none]” or a credited artist, with “[unknown]” probably being the rule). Technically they may share or not a recording, depending on situation, but other than live releases or (probably rare) explicit mentions by the artists it would be impossible to determine this. (With enough semantical splitting of hairs, it could also be argued that different silent tracks can be covers of each other, or be composed by different artists, possibly with a “inspired by” relationship between them.) That said, this does seem silly, and I’m not sure I see the point. -- Bogdan Butnaru _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
