On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Ryan Torchia <anarchyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > At the time this was proposed, the "current recordings and release group > style" did not include the changes in RFV-327. It seems kind of sketchy > that the discussion of how to treat track titles was specifically excluded > from that discussion, yet will be implemented by this one.
Except for capitalization, there are basically no style guidelines for track titles. That means most new releases already have featuring artists in the artist credit field, because that's most obvious way to do it. Applying the current style guidelines, somebody would have to change the recordings to match the featuring artist style (i.e. move the artists to the title), but this was not happening in practice and the artists stayed in the artist credit field. There was no need to discuss that in the RFV-327 thread, because in most cases tracks already artist credits like that. From my point of view, it was about making the style guidelines for recordings a little closer to what's happening for tracks. This change is about applying normalization even on the track level. That means that instead of "A featuring B", "A feat. B", "A-FEAT.-B", etc. (which are currently all completely valid track artist credits), we will standardize it to "A feat. B". If RFV-327 wasn't applied, we would standardize it to "A - Title (feat. B)". I'd have been fine with either way, as long as it's consistent. Lukas _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
