On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 17:29 +0000, Ben Ockmore wrote: > Expected Expiration Date for RFC: Wednesday, 7th November 2012 > > > This proposal is designed to improve the guidelines on merging recordings, > at https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Recording. > > It is felt that the current guidelines are too vague, and that they don't > cover all cases where recordings might be merged. This proposal seeks to > expand these guidelines and make them clearer. > > JIRA Ticket (includes previous IRC discussion): > http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-159 > Wiki Page: > https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:LordSputnik/Recording_Style_Guidelines > > > This is my first Style Proposal, so if I've done part of it incorrectly or > I've missed some part of the procedure, please let me know! However, I > think everything is as it should be.
There's one minor issue with this in my opinion, regarding remasters: In many cases, a release labelled "remastered" doesn't actually have any audible difference from the original track other than a change to the amount of gain - and that sort of minor gain adjustment is common in things that aren't labelled remastered as well. IMO, that's not enough change to be worth a new recording. I think new recordings for remasters should be limited to particularly "notable" remasters, or ones with noticeable audible differences. One other thing that I think is worth mentioning: Recordings with different numbers of channels (stereo/mono or stereo/5.1, etc.) should never be merged. -- Calvin Walton <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
