one of my favourite things about Musicbrainz is that it doesn't try and deal with genre.
Genres are massively subjective and also incredibly fluid and i'm not sure how useful they'd be to end users of MB data. i think attaching an artist to a genre in particular isn't a good start. eg Miles Davis might be assigned as a jazz artist but there are many prople who would not consider something like Bitches Brew to be jazz. so recordings might be a better place to start. But my instinct is to think that it would be a very bad idea. Again, it's one of those things that would take away from MB's core purpose, which is as a repository of veriable facts. There's nothing factual about Genres in the main - they're a necessary evil when it comes to marketing but they're not necessary for MB IMHO.... sorry to be so negative! P -----Original Message----- From: musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org [mailto:musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of Lukáš Lalinský Sent: 12 December 2011 15:58 To: MusicBrainz style discussion Subject: [mb-style] Genre support Hi, This discussion is a little off-topic here, but I can't think of a better group of active MB users to discuss a feature like this. I'd like MB to have some support for genres. This was apparently discussed at the last MB summit, but I don't know details about that. http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Summit/11/Session_Notes#Genres I've created a ticket that seems to be a superset of the genre features discussed at the summit: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3738 The idea for now is just to define the genre lists and relations between them. It does not deal with the problem of assigning entities like artists to genres (I think that SoundUnwound has a nice solution to this though). My idea is to add the concept of genres to MusicBrainz, make it editable by users, linkable to other genres and URLs. That way we can define genre trees. Then I'd like for each genre to have a list of tags that the genre can appear as. This can be used for autocompleting genres when adding tags, and whitelisting tags in applications like Picard (it can be used to whitelist tags also from other sources, like Last.fm). Does any of this make sense? Do you think it's a good idea? Lukas _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
