Per feedback in the #musicbrainz IRC channel, I have drafted an amendment to the existing guidelines.
Wiki page: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Leftmostcat/Style/Release Sean Burke On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Sean Burke <leftmost...@gmail.com> wrote: > JIRA ticket: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-197 > > Currently, the guidelines are silent on the following situation: > > Artist B records a track. > Artist A remixes the track and puts it out on a release. > The release is credited to artist A, and the remix track is not visibly > credited on the release. > > I propose that artist B be credited at the recording level, and performer > and remixer relationships be added to the recording. At the tracklist > level, artist A should be credited. > > This is consistent with how we take the album artist as an implicit credit > for tracks on the release unless there is an explicit credit given to the > contrary. Additionally, it allows us to store multiple pieces of > information: how the release is credited, and who the original artist is. > This information will also be presented on the release page through the > relationships. > > > This RFC was partly motivated by http://musicbrainz.org/edit/21243677 > > > > Sean Burke >
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