Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread Alex Mauer
On 6/9/2011 10:57 PM, monxton wrote: Now I know nothing about metal, but I don't see why you say a short term collaboration between Motorhead and Girlschool would not be a good example of a collaboration. I wouldn't; it absolutely *is* a collaboration. I'm not talking about collaboration

Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread monxton
On 10/06/2011 05:08, Nikki wrote: monxton wrote: You'll have noted Nikki's response where he says that the distinction between collaboration and member-of-band has not changed with NGS. Short-term or one-off projects are collaborations. I'm not the same person as Nicolás. ;) Excuse me,

Re: [mb-style] VolumeNumberStyle in NGS?

2011-06-10 Thread jacobbrett
Lukáš Lalinský wrote: 2011/6/7 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren lt;reosare...@gmail.comgt;: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria lt;davito...@gmail.comgt; wrote: 2011/6/7, Lukáš Lalinský lt;lalin...@gmail.comgt;: I think that the guidelines regarding release/track titles should be

Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:53 PM, monxton musicbra...@jordan-maynard.org wrote: On 10/06/2011 05:08, Nikki wrote: monxton wrote: You'll have noted Nikki's response where he says that the distinction between collaboration and member-of-band has not changed with NGS. Short-term or one-off

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Concept of works group

2011-06-10 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
One possible issue with the workgroup concept is that happens when the work doesn't have any subgroups? The workgroup will need to behave and have the exact same attributes and relationships for this work. Or do we create a single subgroup within the workgroup. It's getting complicated To be

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
One thing about this, I think it would be important to also be able to assign an order to the parts so that the movements/parts are displayed/listed in the correct order. While Symphony movements should be easy to sort as they should all have I. II. III., etc, some other work types (particularly

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-10 Thread jacobbrett
Kuno Woudt wrote: Hello, On 05/06/11 21:06, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: 2011/6/5 Nicolás Tamargo de Egurenlt;reosare...@gmail.comgt;: The problem is in interpreting the cover. What is the distinction between an artist being mentioned in a comment on the sleeve and being credited as an

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: One thing about this, I think it would be important to also be able to assign an order to the parts so that the movements/parts are displayed/listed in the correct order. While Symphony movements should be easy to sort

Re: [mb-style] RFC-324 v2: Official Website and Discography Entry ARs for Releases/Release Groups

2011-06-10 Thread jacobbrett
Calvin Walton-2 wrote: Now with infinitely more wiki page templates, and its very own RFC number! This proposal is to add or change two ARs: * Official Homepage http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Kepstin/Official_Homepage_Relationship_Type_Proposal A new Release Group →

Re: [mb-style] RFC-324 v2: Official Website and Discography Entry ARs for Releases/Release Groups

2011-06-10 Thread Yin Izanami
What happens if a label changes the URL structure of their website? I'm concerned this will eventually lead to a countless number of dead links, if said changes aren't fixable by a simple script. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:21 AM, jacobbrett jacobbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Calvin Walton-2 wrote:

Re: [mb-style] RFC-324 v2: Official Website and Discography Entry ARs for Releases/Release Groups

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Yin Izanami yind...@gmail.com wrote: What happens if a label changes the URL structure of their website?  I'm concerned this will eventually lead to a countless number of dead links, if said changes aren't fixable by a simple script. The changes should at least

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Concept of works group

2011-06-10 Thread caramel
2011/6/10 Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca One possible issue with the workgroup concept is that happens when the work doesn't have any subgroups? The workgroup will need to behave and have the exact same attributes and relationships for this work. Or do we create a single subgroup within

[mb-style] [CSG] joined movements in works

2011-06-10 Thread lorenz pressler
often short movements/scenes are joined together to one track on releases. should we link them to the two or more apropriate works? eg.: Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in C major, Op. 56 Triple Concerto: II. Largo / III. Rondo alla Polacca [1] has its own work now and i would

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/10, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: One thing about this, I think it would be important to also be able to assign an order to the parts so that the movements/parts are displayed/listed in the

Re: [mb-style] [CSG] joined movements in works

2011-06-10 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:14 PM, lorenz pressler l...@gmx.at wrote: often short movements/scenes are joined together to one track on releases. should we link them to the two or more apropriate works? eg.: Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra in C major, Op. 56 Triple Concerto:

Re: [mb-style] [CSG] joined movements in works

2011-06-10 Thread caramel
2011/6/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 6:14 PM, lorenz pressler l...@gmx.at wrote: often short movements/scenes are joined together to one track on releases. should we link them to the two or more apropriate works? eg.: Concerto for Piano,

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread symphonick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:16:38 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: This was already discussed a few months ago, I remember that someone noted that numbering could be dificult to handle because of overlapping splits, which happens for example in operas. I don't read music, so

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
I agree it will be difficult, another possible headache is that there are various variations of the same movement that of course need to have the same number and be part of the same work. In regards to Opera, I always hated the way they were separated and named on albums, so when I was tagging my

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
There might not be numbers, but they were definitely composed with an order in mind. I absolutely don't want MB to add 1. 2. 3. in front of movements, but somehow it would be best for the order to preserved Sebastien On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/10, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca: It would almost be best to not have the Opera parts as separate and distinct works in the MB database and simply have them in the track listings. Perhaps large parts of Opera could be in, such as Act I, Act II, Act III, etc... Can anyone think why

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Reinhardt
Lemire, Sebastien wrote: There might not be numbers, but they were definitely composed with an order in mind. I absolutely don't want MB to add 1. 2. 3. in front of movements, but somehow it would be best for the order to preserved I liked what Christopher Key proposed: Having a sort name

Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread monxton
On 10/06/2011 08:24, Alex Mauer wrote: I'm not talking about collaboration relationships here, OK. Look in the corner of the room. See that big grey thing with the flappy ears? I'm talking about situations where it is appropriate to use artist credits instead of creating separate artists

Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread Alex Mauer
On 06/10/2011 11:38 AM, monxton wrote: Now we have NGS, which is the happy state towards which the stopgap was put in place. So, if all the editors did the right thing, then the groups joined by a collaboration relationship should be precisely those to be split using ARs, and those by a

[mb-style] Passed: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Alex Mauer
The RFV period of this has passed with no objections and several +1s. I have entered ticket #MBS-2701 to get this implemented[1]. Hopefully once the work part is there, guidelines can be created for naming conventions on the works vs. their parts. 1.

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
Aren't the tracks in on a Opera release more an object convenience and that it would be rather unwieldy to have 30-40 minute tracks on a CD rather than anything else? I think we can we assume that the composer never intended his opera to be split in 85 different parts. To be frank, I don't really

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Collaboration Relationship Type update

2011-06-10 Thread Alex Mauer
On 06/07/2011 09:15 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: Just a (fairly straightforward, I expect) update to limit the collaboration relationship to cases where we can't use artist credits. See http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Reosarevok/Collaboration_Relationship_Type_update (vs. the

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/10 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:53:02 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/10, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca: Perhaps large parts of Opera could be in, such as Act I, Act II, Act III, etc... Can anyone think why we'd want the

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread symphonick
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:30:58 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you are saying or that you understood Sebastien's suggestion (which was already made by someone else IIRC): Don't split an opera in smaller parts than acts if the composer did

Re: [mb-style] RFV-321: Work parts relationship

2011-06-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/10 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:30:58 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you are saying or that you understood Sebastien's suggestion (which was already made by someone else IIRC): Don't split an opera

[mb-style] RFC: Add 8cm CD format (Mini CD / 3 CD) as a subtype of CD format

2011-06-10 Thread Yin Izanami
Proposal is to add 8cm CD as a subtype of CD in the medium format list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD_singlehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81CD I'd prefer seeing 8cm CD if no one objects to this, since the format was most

Re: [mb-style] Works and remixes/covers

2011-06-10 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:48 +0100, Pete Marsh wrote: thanks Paul! i still think the criteria for a remix becoming a work rather than a recording need a bit more discussion. credits for additional lyrics or compositions on such things are going to be the exception rather than the rule. in

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add 8cm CD format (Mini CD / 3 CD) as a subtype of CD format

2011-06-10 Thread Nikki
Yin Izanami wrote: Proposal is to add 8cm CD as a subtype of CD in the medium format list. Yay!! Definitely a +1. I've already tagged over a thousand releases with 8cm cd - http://musicbrainz.org/tag/8cm%20cd/release-group (the tags were migrated to release groups in NGS) I'd prefer seeing

Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread Nikki
monxton wrote: Now we have NGS, which is the happy state towards which the stopgap was put in place. So, if all the editors did the right thing, then the groups joined by a collaboration relationship should be precisely those to be split using ARs, and those by a member-of-band

Re: [mb-style] NGS and Duos

2011-06-10 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
all this arguing over collaboration credits. Say we have a collaboration of Charles Aznavour and Frank Sinatra. Why can't the following artist credits: - Charles Aznavour - Frank Sinatra - Charles Aznavour Frank Sinatra (if they've collaborated long enough or if it's clear enough from the album