2012/2/7 Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com> > 2012/2/7, Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca>: > > On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 17:06 +0100, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > >> 2012/2/7, symphonick <symphon...@gmail.com>: > >> > But it would be better if we could get the composer in the search > >> > results > >> > from the linked work. Then we could do away with this enterily. > >> > >> Of course, this would be an improvement from our classical music > >> editor point of view. But would other kinds of music benefit from > >> having the composer in the results? Maybe as a persistent user option. > > > > For a lot of instrumental/classically styled soundtracks for movies, > > games, etc., the composer is similarly considered “more important” than > > the performers, and being able to search and view the composer easily > > would be nice. > > > > Of course, for many of these releases the composer is involved with the > > performance in some way—or the performers are otherwise unknown. As a > > result, similar to the previous classical music guidelines, most of > > these soundtrack releases already have the composer in the > > track/recording artist fields; for a large number of them, we simply > > don't have any better information to replace the composer with. > > > > For example, > > http://musicbrainz.org/release/71ad800f-43a3-3f30-8e66-3f35c37cef85 > > (almost) all music composed by John Williams, and performed by the > > London Symphony Orchestra—conducted by John Williams. > > > > (I have a friend with the original vinyl version of this release with > > better credits—including all the orchestra members and positions—I > > should go and borrow it…) > > > > http://musicbrainz.org/release/775fead4-9e4b-40d7-a5de-10767d5e13c1 > > All music composed by Hamauzu Masashi. Some of the tracks are performed > > by credited orchestras or other performers, others have no credited > > performers and are presumably done on synthesizers by the composer > > himself. > > Obviously, I should have written something like "classical music (for > example)". Anyhow, if this ever gets implemented, it should be pretty > easy give the user an option to hide the composer if he feels having > it is undesirable. > > -- > Frederic Da Vitoria > (davitof) > > Yeah, show/hide composer as an user option is what I meant.
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