Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread symphonick
2013/4/27 Tom Crocker tomcrockerm...@gmail.com I used captured sound OR a captured synth signal, because to my mind these are the only two ways of generating a primitive recording, so I don't think it's too narrow. What else needs to be covered here? A pickup for an electric guitar I

Re: [mb-style] RFV: STYLE-208: New Recordings Guidelines

2013-04-28 Thread symphonick
Congratulations! 2013/4/27 LordSputnik ben.s...@gmail.com No opposition, so this has now passed. As mentioned before, the guideline will not be updated straight away, but will come into effect as soon as Track IDs are brought in and after AcoustID has indicated that it is prepared for the

[mb-style] RFV: Work-Work Arrangement AR

2013-04-28 Thread symphonick
This proposal adds a relationship to link between works when one work is an arrangement of the other work. This RFV will expire on Tuesday the 30th of April 2013. http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-5867 http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Symphonick/Works_versions (Since it has been

Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread pabouk
lixobix wrote Tom Crocker wrote No, a pickup doesn't pick up sound, it picks up current in vibrating magnetised strings. No, the current is in the pickup, not the string; like a microphone. It picks up the vibration and turns it into a signal. Wikipedia: An electric guitar is a guitar

Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread Tom Crocker
I must say that I am afraid that the whole definition a recording is going be hard to understand :( Yes! Especially if it's made more technical I was surprised by this statement: LordSputnik wrote The recording is a container for audio tracks. Even if it contains just one audio track,

Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread lixobix
Tom Crocker wrote But it's not sound. It's a moving electro-magnetic field The vibrating string IS a sound. Without that, all the pickup generates is hum. A mic and a pickup are fundamentally the same, as the translate vibrations (sound) into a signal. Without vibration (sound), you have no

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Work-Work Arrangement AR

2013-04-28 Thread Alex Mauer
On 4/28/2013 4:07 AM, symphonick wrote: This proposal adds a relationship to link between works when one work is an arrangement of the other work. This RFV will expire on Tuesday the 30th of April 2013. Was there an RFC for this one? ___

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Work-Work Arrangement AR

2013-04-28 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 4/28/2013 4:07 AM, symphonick wrote: This proposal adds a relationship to link between works when one work is an arrangement of the other work. This RFV will expire on Tuesday the 30th of April 2013. Was there

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Work-Work Arrangement AR

2013-04-28 Thread Abel Cheung
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:07 PM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com wrote: This proposal adds a relationship to link between works when one work is an arrangement of the other work. All for it. I need it very badly for many of the edits currently undergoing (namely, tidying up works created by

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Rights society relationship

2013-04-28 Thread Nikki
There were no objections to this, so it's passed. Nikki Am 26.04.13 15:00, schrieb Nikki: This proposal is for a new label type Rights Society and a relationship between labels and releases, which will give the existing entries a real meaning and also give us a more structured way to enter

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Work-Work Arrangement AR

2013-04-28 Thread daniel.
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Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread Tom Crocker
I'm giving up trying to explain it to you. I don't know how you are finding the concept so difficult when it is the same as what you're saying, just using different language. Any definition of a recording that includes the words synthesiser or pickup tells you something has gone wrong and you

Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread lixobix
Tom Crocker wrote I'm giving up trying to explain it to you. I don't know how you are finding the concept so difficult when it is the same as what you're saying, just using different language. A different thing in different language. Any definition of a recording that includes the words

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Work-Work Arrangement AR

2013-04-28 Thread Alex Mauer
On 4/28/2013 10:05 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/RFC-Arrangement-works-and-other-versions-td4648716.html +1 then ___ MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Alternative Recording Definitions

2013-04-28 Thread LordSputnik
lixobix wrote Plucking an electric guitar string makes a sound, just like a voice. The pickup, like the mic, translates the vibrations (sound) into a signal. What is recorded is the signal, yes, but what is captured is the sound. No, it doesn't have anything to do with sound. A pickup detects

[mb-style] RFC: STYLE-215

2013-04-28 Thread Trevor Downs
Ok, this is my first request for comments, so bear with me here. I'd like to add to the schema a new medium wax and cardboard disc. It's an old recording medium used in the late 1800s. I added a release to the database from Alexander Graham Bell, one of the few that the Smithsonian was able to

Re: [mb-style] RFC: STYLE-215

2013-04-28 Thread Rachel Dwight
On Apr 28, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Trevor Downs cybersk...@mac.com wrote: Ok, this is my first request for comments, so bear with me here. I'd like to add to the schema a new medium wax and cardboard disc. It's an old recording medium used in the late 1800s. I added a release to the database