Ok, so I'll try to summarize it one more time because I can see that
this mail was completely misunderstood. :)
We already do have tags, the majority (but not all) of which are
genres. What I proposed here was a layer above the tagging system,
which just helps people to give some meaning to the ta
Lukáš Lalinský wrote:
> The idea for now is just to define the genre lists and relations
> between them. It does not deal with the problem of assigning entities
> like artists to genres (I think that SoundUnwound has a nice solution
> to this though).
Perhaps you should briefly explain their solut
2011/12/12 Pete Marsh :
> one of my favourite things about Musicbrainz is that it doesn't try and deal
> with genre.
>
> Genres are massively subjective and also incredibly fluid and i'm not sure
> how useful they'd be to end users of MB data. i think attaching an artist to
> a genre in particul
I agree. Genres are entirely subjective and hard to define. I understand
there is a demand for it and I don't mind (as long as it doesn't clutter
the interface), but I think there are bigger priorities to spend
developer time on.
mfmeulenbelt
Op 12-12-2011 17:20, Pete Marsh schreef:
one of m
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote:
> So, I was looking once again at the guidelines for Vol. and ended in
> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Titles/Abbreviations - and I really
> don't get the point. I have never gotten the point, but I am tired of
> it so I thought I might as well ask.
>
> Does the
one of my favourite things about Musicbrainz is that it doesn't try and deal
with genre.
Genres are massively subjective and also incredibly fluid and i'm not sure how
useful they'd be to end users of MB data. i think attaching an artist to a
genre in particular isn't a good start. eg Miles Da
So, I was looking once again at the guidelines for Vol. and ended in
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Titles/Abbreviations - and I really
don't get the point. I have never gotten the point, but I am tired of
it so I thought I might as well ask.
Does the rationale make sense for other people, and i
Hi,
This discussion is a little off-topic here, but I can't think of a
better group of active MB users to discuss a feature like this.
I'd like MB to have some support for genres. This was apparently
discussed at the last MB summit, but I don't know details about that.
http://wiki.musicbrainz.or
2011/12/12, Johannes Weißl :
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:31:23AM +0100, Johannes Weißl wrote:
>> The only problem I have with the proposal is that with the missing
>> support in MusicBrainz, the creation of lots of standalone recordings
>> will make the situation worse (more confusing) than it cur
