[mb-style] RFC:No.1 versus No. 1 (no space vs space)

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Taylor
In track and album titles there are instances of both , although No. 1 is much more popular,and this continues for most numbers. For example there are 18,523 tracks using No. 1 and 3,293 using No.1, 18,426 using No. 2 and 2,761 using No.2 , there are cases for most numbers below 100. Also appli

Re: [mb-style] RFC:No.1 versus No. 1 (no space vs space)

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Taylor
Brian Schweitzer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Paul Taylor <mailto:ij...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: > > In track and album titles there are instances of both , although No. 1 > is much more popular,and this continues for most numbers. For example > there

Re: [mb-style] Idea: remove track durations from analog releases

2011-11-23 Thread Paul Taylor
On 18/11/2011 17:54, Alex Mauer wrote: Discussion on IRC[1] brought up the idea that perhaps it would be useful to remove the possibility of setting track durations from releases which don’t have clearly-defined track boundaries or durations (I believe this is mostly analog releases, but there ma

Re: [mb-style] Idea: remove track durations from analog releases

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Taylor
On 23/11/2011 18:01, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 11/23/2011 05:11 AM, Paul Taylor wrote: >>> The situation is: >>> * phonograph records (in particular) have no clearly-defined duration >>> (especially since the last groove locks and loops forever >> We don't act

Re: [mb-style] Idea: remove track durations from analog releases

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Taylor
On 24/11/2011 17:55, Alex Mauer wrote: On 11/24/2011 4:29 AM, Paul Taylor wrote: We don't actually add release times, just track times so I don't see that this is that relevant, It's relevant to the last track of each side, no? Surely the point at which it reaches the last gr

Re: [mb-style] Idea: remove track durations from analog releases

2011-11-25 Thread Paul Taylor
On 25/11/2011 19:12, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 11/25/2011 03:22 AM, Paul Taylor wrote: >> So, you seem to be saying don't store a time for the vinyl because if >> you have a time for a cd release that is going to be better, that just >> isn't true. Somebody may have put

Re: [mb-style] Recording times

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Taylor
On 10/12/2011 19:39, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 12/10/2011 11:48 AM, lorenz pressler wrote: >> Am 10.12.2011, 08:04 Uhr, schrieb Alex Mauer: >> how can i enter the time of a vinyl only release then? >>> You’d enter it on the recordings associated with that release. >> i can't see the benefit and l

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-15 Thread Paul Taylor
On 12/12/2011 15:57, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > 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

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

2014-10-30 Thread Paul Taylor
On 29/10/2014 23:24, Ian McEwen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:55:53PM +, Tom Crocker wrote: >> Out of interest, does this mean we're getting rid of the distinction >> between official style guidelines and docs? Or are docs still open to >> community editing? > Any moving things into the c

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

2014-10-30 Thread Paul Taylor
On 30/10/2014 13:54, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Paul Taylor <mailto:ij...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: I disagree, although one person is currently has now been put in charge of the style process this is a new change that may need twea