On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Andii Hughes <gnu_and...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On 18 July 2011 23:50, Ryan Torchia <anarchyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/18/2011 05:30 AM, Andii Hughes wrote:
>>> > 1. If the cover says 'X (feat. Y)' by Z, then artist credit is Z,
>>> > title is 'X (feat. Y)'
>>> > 2. If the cover says 'X' by Z feat. Y then artist credit is Z +
>>> > join-phrase ' feat. ' + Y and title is 'X'
>>> > 3. If the cover says 'X (with new singing sensation Y)' by Z, then
>>> > artist credit is Z, title is 'X (with new singing sensation Y)'
>>> > 4. If the cover says 'X' by Z with his best friend Y, then artist
>>> > credit is Z + join-phrase ' with his best friend ' + Y and title is
>>> > 'X'.
>>> > and so on...
>>> >
>>> > i.e. whatever is on the cover...
>>>
>>> +1 to all of this.
>>
>> +1 again.
>>
>>>
>>> The one downside I can see to this is that the feat. artist will not
>>> have that release appear in their releases because they don’t have an
>>> artist credit on it (it will only appear in relationships). I don’t
>>> know if that’s enough of a problem for it to mean we need an exception
>>> guideline to the “as on the cover” concept.
>>
>> Seems to me like this credit *should* appear in relationships for the guest
>> artist, because that's (usually) the most accurate description of how
>> involved they were with the track.
>>
>
> I think it should and that would be the benefit of moving to artist
> rather than track accreditation for recordings.
>
>> For that matter, has anybody suggested NOT listing the featured guest as an
>> artist, but instead adding a {featured} option to the performer AR and
>> adding the guest there?
>
> That's part of the current and proposed guideline:
>
> 'In both cases:
> Add Relationships of the appropriate Relationship Class (usually
> Performance) to link to the featured artist(s') entries in
> MusicBrainz.'
>
> There's a 'guest' tick box for this. I've added many such ARs in the past.
Not *exactly* the same, though, even if fairly similar: there are some
cases where the liner credits say "and guest guitar X" without being
considered a feat.
But quite close, true that.
>>
>> --Torc.
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