2014-01-27 Brant Gibbard <bgibb...@ca.inter.net> > Not meaning to be a wet blanket, but I’ve just managed to located one of > my CDs (Deutsche Gramophon) that does translate Tonmeister into other > languages. The results are most unfortunate! > > > > Before the name of the engineer being credited is this quadrilingual > statement: > > > > “Tonmeister / Recording Engineer / Ingénieur du son / Ingegnere del suono” > > > > Thus two of the four language versions use something reminiscent of Sound > Engineer, which of course is a completely distinct MB term, and another > uses Recording Engineer, again a distinct MB term. > > > > > > Brant Gibbard > Toronto, ON > http://bgibbard.ca > > > > > > *From:* musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org [mailto: > musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org] *On Behalf Of *Frederic > Da Vitoria > *Sent:* January-27-14 11:24 AM > *To:* MusicBrainz Style Discussion > *Subject:* Re: [mb-style] RFC [STYLE-290] Add Balance engineer > relationshiptype > > > > 2014-01-27 ListMyCDs <musicbra...@listmycds.com> > > On 27.1.2014 18:05, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > This RFC is to add Balance engineer to the Engineer relationship types. > > Balance engineers are often named in classical releases and just > > entering them as "engineer" seems to be losing valuable information. > > +1 for this RFC. > > > > I forgot to give a link to the wiki: > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:DavitoF/Balance_engineer_AR > > The link sentences were copied from > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:DavitoF/Balance_engineer_AR . I'd feel > more comfortable if someone who knows English better than me would check > them. > > Also note that the original RFC separated balance engineer from > Tonmeister. I suggest that MB does not need this distinction, especially > since many releases seem to consider those as equivalent. >
I suppose this could happen with other engineering types. This means we'll have to take this type of situation into account. I suggest something like: "In case of conflicting engineering types, prefer the one of the original release language, usually the first language in the order of translations". -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org
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