Re: [mb-style] RFC-347: CSG update for NGS

2012-01-24 Thread pabouk
Frederic Da Vitoria wrote 2012/1/17, pabouk lt;pabouk@gt;: You may enter performance data (e.g. orchestra, conductor, soloist, and/or performance year) into the release’s disambiguation comment, as a means of identifying a specific release. Why should we change the CSG rules so much

Re: [mb-style] RFC-347: CSG update for NGS

2012-01-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2012/1/24, pabouk pab...@centrum.cz: Frederic Da Vitoria wrote 2012/1/17, pabouk lt;pabouk@gt;: You may enter performance data (e.g. orchestra, conductor, soloist, and/or performance year) into the release’s disambiguation comment, as a means of identifying a specific release. Why

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Wieland Hoffmann
/me digs up this old thread Hallo Johannes Weißl: it seems agreement that we don't allow iTunes as label, because it is a store that *real* labels can use to sell the music of artists (also exclusively). I wonder why we allow Bandcamp as a label then? As far as I know, it is even less a

Re: [mb-style] RFC-347: CSG update for NGS

2012-01-24 Thread Nikki
Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: We will need at least a plug-in for Picard (if it is realizable by a plug-in). Probably, but not necessarily: the API could return the concatenation of the title and the comment. This may be a bad idea fr other reasons, but at least we should check. The API

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Wieland Hoffmann themi...@googlemail.com wrote: /me digs up this old thread Hallo Johannes Weißl: it seems agreement that we don't allow iTunes as label, because it is a store that *real* labels can use to sell the music of artists (also exclusively). I

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Wieland Hoffmann
Hallo Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren: What is a BandCamp exclusive? Is it anything else than a release sold only in BandCamp? No. If not, how's that different from saying Amazon is a label if that's the only place the band decided to put the music up for sale? (or, for that matter, from saying

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Wieland Hoffmann themi...@googlemail.com wrote: Hallo Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren: What is a BandCamp exclusive? Is it anything else than a release sold only in BandCamp? No. If not, how's that different from saying Amazon is a label if that's the only place

Re: [mb-style] RFC-347: CSG update for NGS

2012-01-24 Thread Marco Curti
Hi, Why are we switching from composer to performer in recordings and not in releases? In my opinion is exactly the same concept, but maybe I'm wrong. Just a reminder about the actual structure of API. To retrieve the Recordings from a composer now you need a browse, then you'll nedd a

Re: [mb-style] Work type for movements?

2012-01-24 Thread pabouk
Rupert Swarbrick wrote pabouk lt;pabouk@gt; writes: ... I would like to start the process of adding work types for work parts (like movement, overture). As I am very new in the forum do you think it is appropriate for me to start the process? Eugh. In my opinion, something like movement

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 24/01/12 07:06, Wieland Hoffmann wrote: I'm pretty sure Bandcamp helps with at least manufacturing, promotion, PR and distribution. You might argue about the first three because they're Bandcamp is not the only one who might participate in them, but distribution is (at least for

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Johannes Weißl
Hello Wieland, thanks for the reply, I was wondering why there was so little discussion when I brought up the topic! Bandcamp is the one of the many digital fake labels that probably qualifies the least for being used as label in the MB sense: It is just a software product / service to easily

Re: [mb-style] Work type for movements?

2012-01-24 Thread Simon Reinhardt
pabouk wrote: Rupert Swarbrick wrote pabouklt;pabouk@gt; writes: ... I would like to start the process of adding work types for work parts (like movement, overture). As I am very new in the forum do you think it is appropriate for me to start the process? Eugh. In my opinion,

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Wieland Hoffmann
Hallo Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Wieland Hoffmann themi...@googlemail.com wrote: I fail to see how being the company / website / whatever providing the means of distribution disqualifies Bandcamp as being a label, but not any of the other 1700+ distributor

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Wieland Hoffmann
Hallo Johannes Weißl: Hello Wieland, thanks for the reply, I was wondering why there was so little discussion when I brought up the topic! Bandcamp is the one of the many digital fake labels that probably qualifies the least for being used as label in the MB sense: It is just a software

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Wieland Hoffmann
Hallo Kuno Woudt: Hello, On 24/01/12 07:06, Wieland Hoffmann wrote: I'm pretty sure Bandcamp helps with at least manufacturing, promotion, PR and distribution. You might argue about the first three because they're Bandcamp is not the only one who might participate in them, but

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2012-01-24 Thread Johannes Weißl
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:18:07PM +0100, Wieland Hoffmann wrote: I see that people want to store information about the distributor (or even distribution software here) for exclusive releases, but there are other ways of doing it: tags, annotation and (if appropriate) release comments.