> > If people aren’t adding ARs because it’s too hard, then we need to make > it easier, not harder by adding an additional field.
Let's just get something straight, people are not adding ARs because there are too many but because entering them is a pain and generally have to be done on an individual basis. One the editor gets major improvement and that it's easier to group edits and reduce the amount of data input, people will enter more ARs... Another note, I'm still 100% in favor of adding a composer AC at the release level and it doesn't even necessarily need to be entered manually most of the time as the editor could deduce what it should be from the ARs... There's all sorts of mostly useless fields already and people don't complain (Script and Language at Release level for example). However I'm sure someone somewhere finds them useful and uses them for sorting or filtering. This Composer AC would be the same thing. If you're not interested in using it, don't use it, otherwise those that want to use it and have a more logically categorized classical music collection can benefit from it. Sebastien Sebastien On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: > On 02/03/2012 02:25 AM, pabouk wrote: > >> On 2/2/2012 8:43 PM, pabouk wrote: > >>> Though I like how the ACs look I see the impossibility to > >>> use regexp to separate composers and performers as > >>> a big disadvantage. I certainly would like to store > >>> composer ACs into one tag and performer ACs into > >>> a different tag. > >> > >> Isn't that why we have ARs? > > > > Yes, we have the ARs capability but in fact only a small > > part of releases have usable ARs. I doubt that this would > > considerably change in the future. > > And why would it be any different with these special-composer-ACs you’re > proposing? > > If people aren’t adding ARs because it’s too hard, then we need to make > it easier, not harder by adding an additional field. > > > Also as I wrote the queries to determine if an artist from > > ACs is a composer or performer are very complex (querying > > all ARs of the release recordings and works). > > Then we need to make that easier too. Computer time is easier to get > than editor time. > > —Alex Mauer “hawke” > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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