Just realized other thing we need to add this to: labels.
http://soundcloud.com/electricminds
http://soundcloud.com/mobilee-records
(it's relatively common)
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Simon Reinhardt
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering which relationship types to use for relating artists and
Hi,
my name is Piotr and I’m new to this list; I learned about MusicBrainz
some time ago and finally got to filtering most of my music through
Picard. Thanks a lot for your work on this great service!
I’m writing because in my spree on capitalisation fixing I went
too far and changed ‘Music From
Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :)
While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my
music I noticed http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Miscellaneous saying
that ‘typographically-correct punctuation is preferred’, so I started
updating MB with my local fixes to
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:53, Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :)
>
> While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my
> music I noticed http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Miscellaneous saying
> that ‘typographically-correct punctuati
Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> So, my question is whether this was decided
> already, and if so in which direction?
Technically, yes, it was decided a long time ago (section 2c says "Short
prepositions (three letters or less)"). Guidelines can be changed though...
Nikki
_
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:53, Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
>> Yeah, me again. Still most grateful fot MusicBrainz. :)
>>
>> While I was on a recent Picard-powered metadata-cleanup spree on my
>> music I noticed http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Sty
> Personally, I don't think there's any utility in replacing characters
> which could be done with a script. Only if there's some kind of
> judgement call involved does it really make any sense.
> Cleaning up
> only some releases will just leave things in a seemingly inconsistent
> state, so I'd r
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>> Personally, I don't think there's any utility in replacing
>> characters which could be done with a script. Only if there's
>> some kind of judgement call involved does it really make any sense.
The proble
At least Bogdan Butnaru has planned to write typography assisting
software. See
http://musicbrainz-mailing-lists.2986109.n2.nabble.com/Mechanically-assisted-updating-of-typography-on-MusicBrainz-td5978214.html
from early this year.
> song's title → song’s title
> a 'quoted' text → a ‘q
Nikki-3 wrote:
>
> jacobbrett wrote:
>> Should "Too Many Puppies / Master of Puppets" [1] (where a portion of MoP
>> is
>> played as an interlude in the middle of TMP) be attributed as:
>>
>> "Too Many Puppies / Master of Puppets is a performance of Too Many
>> Puppies"
>> "Too Many Puppies / Ma
Simon Reinhardt wrote:
>
> Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote:
>>> On to recordings:
>>> All tracks that have been uploaded will always be available for
>>> streaming so as a general type that will always work. But if something's
>>> also available for download I'd rather want to see that used bec
Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> The problem with apostrophes is that it’s
> not trivial to script the replacement:
And that's only English...
I would probably not go as far as using the hyphen character, I've seen
reports that it's not available in the standard fonts in Windows, e.g.
http://bugs.musi
Per Starbäck wrote:
>
> At least Bogdan Butnaru has planned to write typography assisting
> software. See
> http://musicbrainz-mailing-lists.2986109.n2.nabble.com/Mechanically-assisted-updating-of-typography-on-MusicBrainz-td5978214.html
> from early this year.
>
>> song's title → song’s
2011/6/16, jacobbrett :
>
> Per Starbäck wrote:
>>
>> At least Bogdan Butnaru has planned to write typography assisting
>> software. See
>> http://musicbrainz-mailing-lists.2986109.n2.nabble.com/Mechanically-assisted-updating-of-typography-on-MusicBrainz-td5978214.html
>> from early this year.
>>
>
+1 here as well
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:57 AM, jacobbrett wrote:
>
> Nikki-3 wrote:
> >
> > jacobbrett wrote:
> >> Should "Too Many Puppies / Master of Puppets" [1] (where a portion of
> MoP
> >> is
> >> played as an interlude in the middle of TMP) be attributed as:
> >>
> >> "Too Many Puppie
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Nikki wrote:
> Piotr Szotkowski wrote:
> > So, my question is whether this was decided
> > already, and if so in which direction?
>
> Technically, yes, it was decided a long time ago (section 2c says "Short
> prepositions (three letters or less)"). Guidelines can
Ryan Torchia:
> The problem is if we say "capitalize prepositions four letters or
> shorter", there's a few frequently-occurring words that can function
> as prepositions or something else depending on how they're used.
Yes, but this applies to (non-)prepositions regardless
of lenght; ‘Come On, L
i really do think, that typographical correct punctuation is nonsense in a
non-print environment.
it adds inconsitency and noise to the database since most users are only
able (or willing) to use the chars ' and " and - and an automatic
determination is not reliable imho. also most fontsets
And in your opinion, in a print environment, it's not nonsense? If so,
I'd like to better understand why this is your position.
Paul
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 20:43 +0200, lorenz pressler wrote:
> i really do think, that typographical correct punctuation is nonsense in a
> non-print environment.
>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:43, lorenz pressler wrote:
> usability > typographical correctness
Just FYI, I and a few others made all these same arguments in a
monster thread a few years back. We managed to put off the pedants
for a little while, anyway. ;)
--
-:-:- David K. Gasaway
-:-:- Emai
Am 17.06.2011, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb Paul C. Bryan :
> And in your opinion, in a print environment, it's not nonsense? If so,
> I'd like to better understand why this is your position.
fonts for print are designed with the background, that they are displayed
at much higher resolution/dpi than regu
Hello,
On 17/06/11 03:57, lorenz pressler wrote:
> Am 17.06.2011, 01:17 Uhr, schrieb Paul C. Bryan:
>
>> And in your opinion, in a print environment, it's not nonsense? If so,
>> I'd like to better understand why this is your position.
>
> i do quite some layout and typesetting work and i like usi
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