On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 15:12, Dr Andrew John Hughes
<gnu_and...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On 7 June 2011 08:04, lorenz pressler <l...@gmx.at> wrote:
>> i think in your edit-discussion you came to an agreeable solution for a
>> future guideline.
>>
>> - on recording lvl: move all (feat. X) to artist credits
>> - on release lvl: as close to cover/sleeve as possible ("feat. X" in
>> tracktitel included)
>>
>> imho it's a pity not to use these new artists credit possibilities on
>> tracklvl (since i think the feat. is only appended to the trackname on
>> covers since there is normally no artist column; it is written in smaller
>> letters though most of the time to indicate its separation from the
>> tracktitel) but i guess the above would make most people happy?> No, the final decision was to have: Where have decisions been made? If there are already answers for these issues, please point to them! > On recording: The featured artist properly credited as an artist > credit with the feat. join string. > So X (feat.Y) by Z becomes X by Z feat. Y > On tracklistings: Retain the previous feat. style for now to retain > backwards compatibility. ws/1 (the old web service layer from pre-NGS > still used by most clients) exposes the artist name at track level, > not recording level. So recording level changes won't affect ws/1 but > track level changes will, and use of feat. artist credits there would > cause the creation of new pseudo-feat. artists for external data > users, exactly what feat. artist style tried to avoid. > > The intention is to eventually follow the cover at tracklist level and > have artist credits where appropriate, but at present this would mess > up ws/1 users who haven't yet adapted to NGS, a change which is still > under a month old. Is this your personal opinion, or have is there actually a policy or style guideline to back this up? -- Philip Jägenstedt _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
