Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andii Hughes wrote: > On 21 July 2011 18:07, Kuno Woudt wrote: > > > On most of the physical releases I've looked at the featuring artist is > > credited in the artist column if there is an artist column on the > release. > > > > So, considering featuring artists

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-22 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Kuno Woudt wrote: > However, our guidelines are very focused on the english language market > in my opinion, and I would like to see the guidelines be made a bit more > general -- or just make it clear they don't apply to releases which > are not intended for engl

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread MeinDummy
Ryan Torchia wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andii Hughes > wrote: > >> On 21 July 2011 18:07, Kuno Woudt wrote: >> >> > On most of the physical releases I've looked at the featuring artist is >> > credited in the artist column if there is an

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Andii Hughes
On 22 July 2011 08:20, Ryan Torchia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Andii Hughes > wrote: >> >> On 21 July 2011 18:07, Kuno Woudt wrote: >> >> > On most of the physical releases I've looked at the featuring artist is >> > credited in the artist column if there is an artist column on th

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
> My primary motivation for moving the featured artist to an artist > credit is that it stops being merely text and becomes a reference to > the actual artist, giving more structured data which can be parsed > reliably by a machine.  I think that's pretty valuable. THIS. This is, I'd say the most

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
> My primary motivation for moving the featured artist to an artist > credit is that it stops being merely text and becomes a reference to > the actual artist, giving more structured data which can be parsed > reliably by a machine. I think that's pretty valuable. I also agree 100% with this! 20

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Andii Hughes wrote: > > That's a rather large "except" though, isn't it? That essentially > narrows > > down the scope of your sample to title tracks of singles. > > No, I was primarily thinking of compilations, mainly various artists > ones. I actually forgot ab

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-22 Thread jacobbrett
Andii Hughes wrote: > > On 21 July 2011 13:17, jacobbrett wrote: >> >> Ryan Torchia wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Alex Mauer >>> wrote: >>> > Seems to me like this credit *should* appear in relationships for the guest >>>

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 16:08 -0700, Ryan Torchia wrote: > I would be extremely hesitant to dismiss original releases in favor of > VA comps in determining credits, let alone to establish guidelines. > That's dismissing a primary source in favor of a secondary source in > which artists has little o