My latest version :
A MusicBrainz Recording is an original audio track or the product of
mixing and/or editing one or more audio tracks. (Optional) MusicBrainz
recordings must have been released.
Definitions of audio track, mixing and editing as now.
I don't think this is any more complex than the current version. I think
original audio track is fairly easily interpreted.
On Apr 16, 2013 10:16 PM, "symphonick" <symphon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/4/16 lixobix <arjtap...@aol.com>
>
>> Frederic Da Vitoria wrote
>> > There is something I like in the 5th definition: it separates the
>> > "released" aspect from the "unedited/edited/mixed" aspect. There is
>> > somethinkg I dislike in it: the first sentence is longer than the other
>> > definitions.
>>
>> I like the fact that number 5 actually defines 'recording' in the most
>> basic
>> sense of the word, i.e. an unmixed, unedited recording, then goes on to
>> explain the more complex forms, i.e. edit and mix.
>>
>> We could probably exclude the 'released' criterion. However, if we include
>> unmixed, unedited recordings, then without it, the definition includes any
>> single instrument recording from a multi-track recording. Each of these is
>> in itself an unmixed, unedited recording, and could thus be included
>> without
>> the exception.
>>
>> Mastering is not an issue, as mastering is not mixing or editing, nor is
>> it
>> capturing a series of sounds.
>>
>> Also, I don't like the distinction between 'audio tracks' and 'direct
>> recordings'; as they are in reality the same thing. Any distinction is
>> artificial. So we should define recording in its most basic sense, then
>> define it in ints complex sense (mixed, edited).
>>
>> Release should probably not be an element, so I'm dropping it from 5:
>>
>> 1) "A Recording is either the result of mixing and/or
>> editing one or more audio tracks, or a released unedited recording."
>>
>> 2) "A Recording is a released audio track, either
>> mixed/edited or unprocessed. See below for specific cases."
>>
>> 3) "A Recording is either the result of mixing and/or
>> editing one or more audio tracks, or a previously unreleased audio track."
>>
>> 4) "A recording is either the result of mixing and/or editing one or more
>> audio tracks, or a direct recording of some audio source."
>>
>> 5) "A recording is a captured series of sounds including musical, spoken,
>> and other sounds,
>>
>
> 5) essentially defines a recording as any (every) captured sound. I don't
> disagree with the definition, but IMO it's too broad for MB-recordings. To
> me it says more or less the same thing as now ("unique audio"), but the
> wording is better.
>
>
>> or the product of mixing and/or editing of one or more
>> other recordings."
>>
>
> "A recording is the product of mixing other recordings" - for those who
> had an issue with 1) this is worse. 1) says "a recording is a released
> unedited recording", which I hoped would be interpreted as "a MB-recording
> is a released unedited recording"
>
> Is the second part really necessary if all captured sounds are recordings?
> If we use this I think I'd shorten it to "or the product of mixing and/or
> editing other recordings".
>
> At least tonight I believe that "released" (made available to the public)
> should be included somewhere.
>
> /symphonick
>
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