On 05/24/2011 08:02 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > 2011/5/18 Lukáš Lalinský<lalin...@gmail.com>: >> The original NGS documentation which was written by me [1] says that >> works with different remixes should be merged together. The Work page >> [2] however says that they should be kep separate. All people I've >> discussed this with agree that they should be merged. Can I change the >> Work page to remove the mention of remixes? >> >> Lukas >> >> [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Next_Generation_Schema#Work >> [2] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Work >> > Can we please come to a decision on this? I now have a number of > merges being voted down (e.g. http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14496213) > due to this dumb guideline. It makes no sense to have remixes as > separate works, especially when the remix AR is at recording level and > covers are not separate works but are more different (new vocals, new > production, etc.). I really don't see the point in works if we're > going to allow an artist's work catalogue to be filled with five or > ten remixes of each song. For the sake of consistency, I'd rather see the entire list of "derivative works"[1] addressed, rather than just re-mixes. But this is a good first step.
Putting most re-mix/mashup/medley/ Relationships at the Recording level makes sense to me[2]. Or, put another way, some "distinctiveness" belongs at the Performance level. Alex / caller#6 [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Work#Distinctiveness _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
