Re: [mb-style] Open source, officially sponsored remixes, web distribution - how to enter?

2007-05-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On 4/30/07, Peter Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 07:23:09 Brian Schweitzer wrote: Again on the cutting edge... NIN is again allowing public remixes of tracks, but this time, there's a whole site built around distributing them. Any ideas as to how we might possibly

[mb-style] RFV: has a blog at AR

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Ut, 2007-05-01 at 23:12 +0200, Don Redman wrote: This proposal from Luks has not gotten any response. Maybe because it is so trivial and clear? Please clarify: Do you want to add this as a subtype to community page or as a sibling to it. I'd say a sibling, but the placement really

[mb-style] RFC: Conductor AR Changes

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
I'd like to solve two issues at once here: 1. Mainly on non-classical releases does 'artist conducted track' sound a little strange, because e.g. the artist conducted only a string orchestra which is only used in some parts of the song. 2. Wording of the chorus master AR is _ugly_ -

Re: [mb-style] RFC: New AR Type: Programming

2007-05-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On 5/3/07, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think having programming under instruments is, well... not so obvious. Programming is more a production task, than performance. Plus, it would be nice to have a way to specify _what_ did the person program. So, I propose that we remove

Re: [mb-style] RFC: New AR Type: Programming

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Št, 2007-05-03 at 09:25 +0200, Lauri Watts wrote: For electronic music and it's subgenres, programming is as much an instrument as anything else, and is an integral part of the performance, even live. I've been to more than one concert where there's a singer and two guys with laptops on

Re: [mb-style] RFC: New AR Type: Programming

2007-05-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/3, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Plus, drum programming also includes producing drum loops, which I really can't imaging doing as a part of performance. Either we are not speaking of the same thing (which is quite possible!) or I have seen (and heard) loops used on stage. I could

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Conductor AR Changes

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Št, 2007-05-03 at 10:32 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Classical users are so used to chorus master that we might be a little annoyed at losing this term, OTOH, x conducted choir on y (or is it choirs?) seems better than x performed chorus master on y to me! Can you explain what the

Re: [mb-style] RFC: New AR Type: Programming

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Št, 2007-05-03 at 10:36 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2007/5/3, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Plus, drum programming also includes producing drum loops, which I really can't imaging doing as a part of performance. Either we are not speaking of the same

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Conductor AR Changes

2007-05-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/3, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Št, 2007-05-03 at 10:32 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Classical users are so used to chorus master that we might be a little annoyed at losing this term, OTOH, x conducted choir on y (or is it choirs?) seems better than x performed chorus

Re: [mb-style] Japanese capitalisation fun

2007-05-03 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
I propose JapaneseArtistsCapitalizationException, and linking it prominently on the CapitalizationStandard and CapitalizationStandardEnglish. (I've only seen this apply to English-titled tracks on Japanese albums. Does it happen for other European languages, or on albums from other Asian

Re: [mb-style] Japanese capitalisation fun

2007-05-03 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Here's a start: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CapitalizationStandard/JapaneseArtistsException -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself. – O. ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Conductor AR Changes

2007-05-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
I certainly had forgotten this! And I suspect many users forget it too... 2007/5/3, Rob Keeney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Keep in mind that 'chorus master' does not necessarily imply a conducting role for a performance. It is very common for a CM to be the person who rehearses a choir/chorus and then

Re: [mb-style] ARs about cover-art roles

2007-05-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2007/5/3, Alex Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I hate to break it to you all (for the Nth time), but THERE IS NO WAY TO PUT FREE TEXT IN ARs. Now, in theory, this could be added in some future revision of the DB schema, but frankly, I don't ever see it happening. ARs relate two (and only two)

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Conductor AR Changes

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Št, 2007-05-03 at 10:50 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Ha! As usual, my question was not precise enough. As I said, I like conducted choir better than performed chorus master. In your first post, you spoke of a first idea then of another idea. I was trying to understand what are the

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Conductor AR Changes

2007-05-03 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
On Št, 2007-05-03 at 19:13 +0200, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: ... and it's backward compatible obviously. Er, it's *not* backward compatible. -Lukáš signature.asc Description: Toto je digitálne podpísaná časť správy ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] ARs about cover-art roles

2007-05-03 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On 5/3/07, Alex Dupuy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that the lists of values aren't frozen in stone - they can be added without schema changes so are actually easier to add than new AR types. We can start with the three proposed by Bogdan and add others if there is enough demand. In

Re: [mb-style] RFC: performance dates and locations:

2007-05-03 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On 5/3/07, Kerensky97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like the idea of having a way to enter recording dates and locations although making recording locations like labels might be a bit too... expansive (can't think of a good word). For big names I bet some recording studios get alot of use