On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 22:53, Kuno Woudt <k...@frob.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > On 22/05/11 15:53, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: >> Before NGS I added some releases where both English and Chinese titles >> appear on the cover. I created one release for each language. >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/0a4a71ed-b7d9-44f9-91dd-5cacec86060e >> and http://musicbrainz.org/release/a78902cf-4ed1-414b-ae34-80076f6142f9 >> is one such pair. >> >> With NGS it feels unclear to have multiple releases where there is >> only one physical release, so I've tried to merge these in >> http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14491834 and >> http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14491847 >> >> Is this an approach that people agree with? The languages are joined >> in a very peculiar manner here, with _. What should one do when two >> languages appear on the cover in a more independent fashion, as in >> http://musicbrainz.org/edit/7588058 (I only added the Chinese variants >> for this, see cover at >> http://www.114bt.com/btimg/2007/1/6/682751.jpg)? > > In that cover image one of the languages is clearly the main tracklist, > with the other just supplemental. IF you were to merge those my > suggestion would be to use this format: > > 1. Primary Language (Secondary Language) > > That seems the most common format used elsewhere. > >> It seems sane tagging will be made harder by merging these, because >> almost no one will want both languages, I'm guessing. Should we >> perhaps just use pseudo-releases for tracklists on a usable form and >> leave the official releases in their original true-to-the-cover form? > > I wouldn't strongly object to combining both languages in a single > release, but I would prefer not to start doing that just yet. > > I think we should just keep doing what we've been doing before NGS, > so two releases in our database - link them with translation > relationships and mark both official. And formulate how we think > translations _should_ work, then I can start coding that feature > and we can have this sorted properly soonish :D
Since I wasn't very happy with the result, I reverted the change in http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14503147 Going forward, I think that it would be nice if perhaps recordings could have aliases by language. Perhaps there should be some attribute for official translations, if there is such a thing. With such a scheme, we could get rid of lots of pseudo-releases and wouldn't have to duplicate release events or any AR:s on those. Or should translations be on the tracklist level perhaps? -- Philip Jägenstedt _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
