I was going to suggest something similar. :) "A MusicBrainz recording represents the audio from which multiple release tracks were copied or mastered"
This and lixobix's version are also more specific about which the audio is. Personally I think having copying in there helps with understanding for people who've never heard of mastering and neatly covers the 'not mastered' case. You could even replace 'represents' with 'is' to keep it more real world and less database "A MusicBrainz recording is an abstract group of similar release tracks, and represents the audio in those tracks before it was mastered." If it IS an abstract group of release tracks, then since release tracks have been mastered, it must contain mastering, contradicting the second part of the sentence. "A MusicBrainz recording is the audio that is common to an abstract group of similar release tracks, prior to any mastering being undertaken for those release tracks". This works better, because it defines recordings as the audio itself that it common to the group. -- View this message in context: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/RFC-STYLE-208-New-Recordings-Guidelines-tp4651054p4652677.html Sent from the MusicBrainz - Style mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
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