[mb-style] Mixing simplified and traditional Chinese

2012-03-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
If there are any editors familiar with Chinese on this list, please comment on and vote on . -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.mu

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-101: Update "theatre style"

2012-03-22 Thread Alex Mauer
On 03/21/2012 06:09 PM, SwissChris wrote: > One of the main reasons for this "theatre" guideline was to get – as > much as possible – rid of the ugly and not very helpful [unknown] and > [soundtrack] SPAs and the equally bad "full cast", "ensemble" etc > credits. It’s more helpful than just using

Re: [mb-style] CSG: caps on "no." & "op."?

2012-03-22 Thread monxton
On 19/03/2012 20:06, symphonick wrote: > I was going to start another thread about CSG track titles when I found > a couple of pages where it says that you should not capitalize "op." & > "no." in English: > https://www.areditions.com/mla/notes/stylesheet.html#musical_compositions > http://www.libr

Re: [mb-style] CSG: caps on "no." & "op."? The USual suspects?

2012-03-22 Thread caller#6
On 03/22/2012 07:56 AM, monxton wrote: > On 19/03/2012 20:06, symphonick wrote: >> I was going to start another thread about CSG track titles when I found >> a couple of pages where it says that you should not capitalize "op."& >> "no." in English: >> https://www.areditions.com/mla/notes/styleshe

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-97: Move "medley" to an attribute of "performance of"

2012-03-22 Thread caller#6
On 03/05/2012 09:38 AM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 02/22/2012 07:39 PM, Andii Hughes wrote: >> Looks good to me. > Can I get an official +1 on that? > > —Alex Mauer “hawke” > My only reservation is the "medley" definition[1]. It seems too broad. Not every multiple-titled track is a medley, is it?

Re: [mb-style] CSG: caps on "no." & "op."? The USual suspects?

2012-03-22 Thread symphonick
2012/3/22 caller#6 > > > On 03/22/2012 07:56 AM, monxton wrote: > > On 19/03/2012 20:06, symphonick wrote: > >> I was going to start another thread about CSG track titles when I found > >> a couple of pages where it says that you should not capitalize "op."& > >> "no." in English: > >> > https://

Re: [mb-style] Featured artists: tracklists vs recordings

2012-03-22 Thread jesus2099
Why would we even have to deteriorate the data from a release that says « with » and replace it with another word ? I use to keep data as is. What some people call normalising is in fact altering, breaking, etc. :p I don’t see any good reason to introduce such mistakes and to deviate from MB=REALI

Re: [mb-style] CSG: caps on "no." & "op."? The USual suspects?

2012-03-22 Thread Lemire, Sebastien
I'm in favor of the wikipedia/Grove style Sébastien On Mar 22, 2012 1:23 PM, "symphonick" wrote: > 2012/3/22 caller#6 > >> >> >> On 03/22/2012 07:56 AM, monxton wrote: >> > On 19/03/2012 20:06, symphonick wrote: >> >> I was going to start another thread about CSG track titles when I found >> >>

Re: [mb-style] RFV2-348 CSG Recording & Track Artist, what exactly is a "credit"?

2012-03-22 Thread caller#6
On 02/17/2012 07:09 PM, k...@frob.nl wrote: > Hello, > [snip] > > But Artist Credits are new in NGS. These allow us to even better > capture how something is credited. As such, I think it is now > more important than it already was to use the track artist (credit) > field to capture how somethi

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: When does the CSG apply?

2012-03-22 Thread caller#6
On 03/05/2012 02:20 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > 2012/3/5, Frederic Da Vitoria: >> 2012/3/3, caller#6: >> [snip] > BTW, examples of where CSG does NOT apply would be nice. Obvious: > http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/b1fff2ac-34eb-358b-9bf5-196b2a5fc288 > , http://musicbrainz.org/artist/38

Re: [mb-style] RFV2-348 CSG Recording & Track Artist, what exactly is a "credit"?

2012-03-22 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hello, On 22/03/12 12:52, caller#6 wrote: > I guess I don't understand what a "credit" is in this context. > Presumably, most releases (of any genre) will give both composer and > performer information /somewhere/. Where is the "artist credit"? On the release. Typically, releases on CD have a ba

[mb-style] RFC STYLE-102: Change Performance Relationship Type to Recording Relationship Type

2012-03-22 Thread practik
OK, here it is at last: The Performance Relationship Type identifies separate recordings of the same work as separate performances of it, though in reality they may not be. Also, it's listed as part of the Performance Relationship Class, but it doesn't fit the class description and has nothing in