swisschris wrote: > > There seem to be several unresolved questions here we should try to > address > separately: > > 1. How does "as on cover" (on track/release level) *ideally* translate > into > NGS structures? > > For an album by artist Foo with a track Quux featuring artist Bar: > A) [track] Quux (feat. Bar) [Artist Credit] Foo (as we had pre-NGS) or > B) [track] Quux [Artist Credit] Foo feat. Bar (using the NGS multiple > artist > feature, with the link phrase exactly "as on cover") ? >
B. 'As printed' does IMO not mean that additional artist info has to be part of the track title if the cover happens to have them next to each other. Otherwise we'd end up with A for all 'feat.' tracks on single artist releases and with B for almost all occurrences of the same track on VA compilations. > 2. How should the featured artists *ideally* be treated on the > (normalized) > recording level? > > Assuming there is consensus that "feat."-information should not be part of > the title field at recording level: > A) [Artist Credit] Foo & Bar (as by default) > B) [Artist Credit] Foo feat. Bar (assuming "feat." has a specific > different > meaning, not to be normalized to "&") > Usually, '&' and 'feat.' have different meanings and shouldn't be merged into one normalized phrase. But we could allow only a couple of standardized join phrases and make them selectable from a dropdown. E.g.: '&' as a normalized expression for '&', 'and', '+', ... 'with' as a normalized expression for 'with', 'avec', 'con', 'mit', ... 'duet with' as a normalized expression for 'duet with', 'Duett mit', 'en duo avec' 'vs.' ... > 3. Do we want/need a delay on application of (part of) these *ideal* > rules, > once agreed upon, because of the ws/1 issue? > Not if there is a reasonable workaround for the current ws/1 issue. But it is currently not clear if featured artist credits can automatically be moved from the artist field into ETI. > 4. Do any or all of the above rules apply only to the exact wording > "feat." > (or featuring, features) or would it also affect (how?) other link terms > (in > other languages) like "with", "en duo avec", "con" > This guideline should ideally cover all cases where multiple artists are credited for one track or release. -- View this message in context: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/RFC-327-Featured-Artists-tp3662499p3675218.html Sent from the Musicbrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
