[mb-style] RFC add Project Gutenberg to the whitelist of sites

2014-03-21 Thread Daniel Sobey
Expected expiration date: 4th of May 2014 Ticket: STYLE-301 http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-301 Project Gutenberg is a website providing books for free. Most books are under the public domain. For texts that are not under the public domain they are under a licence that allows the text

Re: [mb-style] RFC add Project Gutenberg to the whitelist of sites

2014-03-21 Thread Daniel Sobey
of his books under a CC licence on his website http://craphound.com with the work also submitted to project guttenberg. The books are good should download them and share them with a friend. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Staffan Vilcans wrote: > > Daniel Sobey skrev: > > Expecte

[mb-style] RFV add Project Gutenberg to the whitelist of sites

2014-04-07 Thread Daniel Sobey
Expected expiration date: 14th of April 2014 Ticket: STYLE-301 http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-301 The proposal is to add url relationships to works to link a prose work to a url where you are able to download the text. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661 is an example of a link to a

[mb-style] RFC add ISBN to works

2014-04-09 Thread Daniel Sobey
Expected expiration date: 23rd of April 2014 Ticket: STYLE-314 http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-314 An isbn is a barcode used for books. For recordings of audiobooks we can have a work representing the prose. I would like to add ISBN as an attribute for works in the same way that iswc a

[mb-style] RFC Previously known as artist relationship

2014-04-19 Thread Daniel Sobey
Expected expiration date: 5th of May 2014 Ticket: STYLE-314 http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-316 For cases where we have an artist or group change name for legal reasons or otherwise it would be good to have links between the previous name and current name. For example The Chemical Bro

Re: [mb-style] RFC Previously known as artist relationship

2014-04-23 Thread Daniel Sobey
The reason why I am suggesting a new relationship instead of using the existing performs as relationship is that this is commonly used to link a stage name and a legal name. On one side the label on the link is "legal name" and on the other side is "performs as" When it is a single artist this make

Re: [mb-style] RFC: STYLE-331 "add 'composite reissue' relationship" -- compilation?

2014-08-23 Thread Daniel Sobey
Would it make sense to include the medium? Medium 1 is available as part of release group. ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Changes to our style process (Important)

2014-11-01 Thread Daniel Sobey
Using git as a wiki replacement can be a good idea and can be easy to do if you know how. Github encourages you to use a text document using markdown. Markdown is a wiki like language and can be easily converted into html. Editing a markdown in github is just as easy as editing a wiki page. First

[mb-style] Series and bundles (humble indie bundle for example)

2014-11-07 Thread Daniel Sobey
Hi List, I'm wanting some advice on how best to add series information to music distributed in bundles. For example humble indie bundle has a bundle of games and this usually includes sound tracks and works. There are other bundles around the place such as vodo.net and Indie Roayale that follow th

Re: [mb-style] Series and bundles (humble indie bundle for example)

2014-12-05 Thread Daniel Sobey
.org/series/4e4ad619-1b26-48d1-8bda-98f0241e1908) to > collect all Humble Bundle releases (though I’ve been bad about updating > it), it seemed less trouble than to actually create a series for each > bundle. > > On Nov 7, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Daniel Sobey wrote: > > Hi List, &g

Re: [mb-style] STYLE-534: When to merge artists?

2015-07-01 Thread Daniel Sobey
Hello List, I have added a lot of legal names artists for writing credits as this makes the task a lot easier to have 2 things in the dataabse. Using the databases listed in http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Work#External_databases that deal with legal names it makes it easier to find someone in the data

Re: [mb-style] Chaptersupport

2015-08-12 Thread Daniel Sobey
I have audio books, dj mixes and bootlegs where defining chapters would be useful. Can we use pseudo releases as a possible solution? I believe this was created for translations with the same number of tracks but I think we could stretch this to work for chapters. What we could do is create a rele

Re: [mb-style] STYLE-549: Dealing with artists with multiple performance but no known legal name

2015-09-21 Thread Daniel Sobey
Here is my method for finding some of these names. Using the works databases you can sometimes track down an artists full name. The apra search engine allows you to enter a performance name and a song name so you can use this as a starting point https://www.apra.com.au/cms/worksearch/worksearch.sr