Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-10 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com wrote: ** On 06/09/2012 09:27 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/09/2012 12:57 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: Let me rephrase those then: 1) I am used to seeing

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-09 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/08/2012 05:17 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: Honestly, I think absolutely mimicking the release is unnecessary here. The point of doing this seems to be simply to communicate side breaks where they exist, which we

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-09 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com wrote: ** On 06/09/2012 12:57 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: Let me rephrase those then: 1) I am used to seeing it that way = That seems to be a standard way of presenting this information, and there isn't a compelling reason to break

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-09 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: This is the RFC for a guideline for the use of the track numbering feature of Musicbrainz. It covers: * unordered tracklists * Unnumbered tracks * Normalization of media side numbering * Sub-tracks (DVD

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-08 Thread Ryan Torchia
Honestly, I think absolutely mimicking the release is unnecessary here. The point of doing this seems to be simply to communicate side breaks where they exist, which we don't do now. Standardizing that to A/B/C/D is sufficient, and is consistent with how other sites label this information. I can

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-120: New work type: Film score

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:57 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: Isn't that covered by soundtrack? If not, what would be the difference between the two? On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 06/07/2012 06:22 AM, ListMyCDs.com wrote: I'm proposing

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: This is the RFC for a guideline for the use of the track numbering feature of Musicbrainz. It covers: * unordered tracklists * Unnumbered tracks * Normalization of media side numbering * Sub-tracks (DVD

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-120: New work type: Film score

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 06/07/2012 05:24 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: I've generally understood Film Score to mean music composed specifically for the film, and Soundtrack to mean songs used in the film (either recorded separately, or recorded

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I'm not sure I understand this line: For releases which already have their own lettering, follow the release: R1, R2, R3, S1, S2, S3. That if a vinyl explicitly names its sides R and S instead of

Re: [mb-style] The internet: [worldwide] or country specific?

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
Worldwide is useful to indicate that the content isn't location-locked. Sites like iTunes definitely can and do limit downloading to residents of specific countries, so you'd lose some clarity by using the field to mean either country of sale or country of origin. I always think of country of

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-121

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I'm not sure I understand

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-114: Soundtrack style

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: Proper use of data fields: The film/show title is not IMO strictly a part of the title of the work, especially when the track has a proper title (e.g. “Can You Read My Mind” (love theme from superman) or “Boss of Me”

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC: (Film) titles within titles...

2012-06-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:15 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 06/04/2012 06:55 AM, Ryan Torchia wrote: This would also affect some of the titles. Should we go with: 1) Title Music From a Clockwork

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC: (Film) titles within titles...

2012-06-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: I would like to see a lot more examples and some consideration of how various cover artwork handles it before leaping to a “use quotation marks” conclusion. Also it should be taken into account that quotation marks don’t

[mb-style] Pre-RFC: (Film) titles within titles...

2012-06-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
Would there be any interest in formalizing the way we handle titles within titles? I've run into this situation before once or twice, but it's going to become a lot more common now that Soundtracks require the full album title. For example, compare these:

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-114: Soundtrack style

2012-06-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: I don't follow you. As I understand it, a title like X: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack would be added as simply X. This was in a guideline as I remember, but I can't find it now. This seems to be

[mb-style] RFC: (STYLE-119) Changing the Wiki to be more specific about when to use EP, etc.

2012-06-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
Expected expiration: June 10th, 2012 Jira: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-119 Proposal: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Torc/Titles Wiki: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Titles Basically I'd like to see some clarification on when to use terms like EP, 7, etc. I don't think this

Re: [mb-style] RFC: (STYLE-119) Changing the Wiki to be more specific about when to use EP, etc.

2012-06-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: Expected expiration: June 10th, 2012 Jira: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-119 Proposal: http

Re: [mb-style] Merging Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 (again)

2012-06-01 Thread Ryan Torchia
The consequences of not having one MB release per physical issue is more about end user identifiably. A user shouldn't have to have the historical background on a release they own in order to identify which MB Release it represents. There must be some physically identifiable element, even

Re: [mb-style] Cover relationship Recording-Recording

2011-10-06 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:14 PM, caller#6 meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com wrote: ** On 10/05/2011 06:30 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: For both of these examples, I could cite performances of each. So, if Adam Lambert

Re: [mb-style] Cover relationship Recording-Recording

2011-10-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** For both of these examples, I could cite performances of each. So, if Adam Lambert performs the Gary Jules version, is he covering Jules who's covering Tears for Fears? As has been pointed-out already on this thread,

Re: [mb-style] Cover relationship Recording-Recording

2011-10-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Philipp Wolfer ph.wol...@googlemail.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: Well because of pretty wide support for removing the Cover attribute and IMHO it shouldn't be implemented unless we can find a way to do

Re: [mb-style] Cover relationship Recording-Recording

2011-10-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/10/3 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: Hi all, I've been thinking about the Cover relationship lately and have found a pretty significant problem with it which should either be clarified or fixed.

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC - B-Sides, Cover, Mini Albums RG Types

2011-10-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/9/26 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:16 +0300, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC - B-Sides, Cover, Mini Albums RG Types

2011-10-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/10/3 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/9/26 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On Mon

Re: [mb-style] RFC-335. Forbid arrange on non classical works

2011-09-16 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, jesus2099 hta3s836gzac...@jetable.orgwrote: Arrange on non classical works leads to systematic wrong inheritances for several later performance recording links like covers, live versions, alternate versions, medleys and any versions you might encounter — some

Re: [mb-style] Proposing to remove all test data from the live data set

2011-09-16 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Johannes Weißl jar...@molb.org wrote: Hello Aurélien, On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:02:54AM +0200, Aurélien Mino wrote: -1 I don't see what the issue is. These artists are fairly well hidden. You can hide them even more by explicitly excluding them in search

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-31 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rupert Swarbrick rswarbr...@gmail.comwrote: caller#6 meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com writes: I've been thinking about a new set of Relationships for work-work and recording-work. A quotes B A borrows [melody|lyrics] from B Would either of

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-30 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:19 AM, jesus2099 hta3s836gzac...@jetable.orgwrote: Arrangements are not always credited. In these cases we couldn't link recordings to anything, that's not good. And you'll probably end up with almost as many Arrangement A/B/C works as recordings. That means that

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Allow releases to appear in multiple release groups

2011-08-29 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:23 PM, caller#6 meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com wrote: On 08/19/2011 09:50 AM, Alex Mauer wrote: As the ticket I entered[1] was changed to request it, here is the RFC to allow a release to appear in multiple release groups. The ticket says: There are

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Allow releases to appear in multiple release groups

2011-08-29 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** Given the fact we have recordings separated from releases, and we have the case where there are already multiple releases associated with a Disc ID (basically the same pressing, released on more than one occasion), I'm

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles instrumentation

2011-08-26 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/25 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com Somewhat related: what about attacca (and similar indications)? On one hand they're indications for the performer, not parts of the title, but on the other hand, isn't Allegro for example also an indication, not the title of a movement,

Re: [mb-style] Studio outtake collections and other non-live bootlegs...

2011-08-26 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 08/14/2011 03:49 AM, Ryan Torchia wrote: I guess this could be a pre-RFC type thing. How should these be classified for release type? There doesn't seem to be any clear direction and thus no consistency with how

Re: [mb-style] Deprecating collaborations

2011-08-24 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** I wrote: Here's a performance collaboration worthy of review: Daryl Hall John Oates, at least judging by their album covers: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:44 -0700, Ryan Torchia responded: How does that put them

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-24 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:06 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/8/22 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: Well

Re: [mb-style] Deprecating collaborations

2011-08-23 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 01:26 +0200, SwissChris wrote: So it's about composer - lyricist collaborations ;-) Currently for me yes, but there are plenty of performance collaboration artists that are disappearing in light

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-22 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/22 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: Well this is more of a case of incorrect wording on discogs (checked the edits). This credit should be arranger and not orchestrator (as per the booklet),

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Group all “tape” medium formats

2011-08-21 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 08/17/2011 11:44 PM, Ryan Torchia wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Alex Mauerha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: So that there’s one place to look for all magtape formats, instead of the current 2 (1 top-level, 2

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Include double-album rereleases in “compilations”

2011-08-20 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Christopher Key cj...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On 10/08/2011 21:55, Alex Mauer wrote: According to the docs[1], a release containing two previously-released albums should not be considered a compilation. I do not understand why this exception exists. To me, a

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC CSG Release title Featured Artists

2011-08-19 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:49 AM, lorenz pressler l...@gmx.at wrote: what to include? the artist credit field is the main field music will get sorted by. VA releases are dodging this most vital ability to search and browse your music collection and therfor have to be avoided if possible. most

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Group all “tape” medium formats

2011-08-17 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 08/13/2011 04:42 PM, Nikki wrote: Why would the formats which use magnetic tape be better off grouped together? It seems even more arbitrary to me than making an optical disc type to group all optical discs. So

Re: [mb-style] Add work types

2011-08-16 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Pete Marsh pete.ma...@bbc.co.uk wrote: again, this seems a bit fuzzy to me, particularly at composer level (how would you classify Schnittke?) maybe it would work at work level, but it's still contentious i think).. Postmodern. I think most composers since

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC CSG Release title Featured Artists

2011-08-15 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:51 AM, caller#6 meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com wrote: ** On 08/12/2011 01:54 AM, Ryan Torchia wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/8/12, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011

[mb-style] Studio outtake collections and other non-live bootlegs...

2011-08-14 Thread Ryan Torchia
I guess this could be a pre-RFC type thing. How should these be classified for release type? There doesn't seem to be any clear direction and thus no consistency with how these are classified. (Well, I guess you could say they're consistently all over the place.) I can understand the logic

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC CSG Release title Featured Artists

2011-08-12 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: Second point is regarding the Featured Artist for classical releases. According to the proposed CSG Style: The *ReleaseTitle http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Release_Title* should include the title of the release followed

Re: [mb-style] Add work types

2011-08-12 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 21:32 +0100, Rupert Swarbrick wrote: Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca writes: I don't think we're contemplating putting genres in the work type, are we? Aren't we merely trying to classify work

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Include double-album rereleases in “compilations”

2011-08-12 Thread Ryan Torchia
I agree that these look odd when they appear in standard album lists years after their original release. Since we can't (currently) add an album to two Release Groups, how about including it the earlier listed (or first listed) of the two albums, perhaps with an annotation in the Release Group

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC - CSG - Artist Credit

2011-08-12 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: I've brought this up on a few occasions in other threads but I think this merits it's own specific discussion and I hope to bring this to RFC/RFV status. First regarding the Artist Credit for Classical music This

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC CSG Release title Featured Artists

2011-08-12 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/8/12, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Lemire, Sebastien m...@benji99.ca wrote: Option A gives me dry heaves, gout, black lung disease, stigmata and herpes

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Group all “tape” medium formats

2011-08-11 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 08/10/2011 03:23 PM, Calvin Walton wrote: Makes sense to me, but I’m not completely sold on having a generic “Cartridge” type – is it likely that someone might have a release on a cartridge without knowing whether

Re: [mb-style] Add work types

2011-08-09 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/9 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:19 AM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: + 1 for spoken word For instrumental I see that we are missing something, but I don't think that the generic term is a good term to use. It is opposed to vocal,

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:34 PM, David Gasaway d...@gasaway.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 23:15, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: I think some of the assumptions upon which the guideline is based aren't consistently true -- not that they're false, but that they're not reliably

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 8:43 PM, David Gasaway d...@gasaway.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 04:28, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: So the cases where feat. is used in an actual equal collaboration, or where a band is named Band feat. Leader aren't allowed to use feat. because

Re: [mb-style] Works and remixes/covers

2011-08-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:10 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: We should clearly keep classical out of this debate, since arrangement in classical also stands for everything we'd call cover performance in other music styles. In Classical the ongoing discussion whether a specific

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-05 Thread Ryan Torchia
Don't have much time to respond to all these now, but just quickly... On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 05:34 -0700, Ryan Torchia wrote: Nobody tried to improve the proposal or actually provide the user guideline I was asking

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM, David Gasaway d...@gasaway.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 16:53, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: I listed the most egregious off the top of my head, but they're hardly edge cases. All I'm asking is that before this change gets approved, I want

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On 4 August 2011 02:45, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Torchia wrote: OK then, how about this: it's feature regression

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On 4 August 2011 07:15, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: You seem to be under the assumption that you have to use every piece of data provided. If you don't particularly like artist credits, no-one

[mb-style] Issue differentiation...

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
Currently in queue are these three Add Release edits... http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14922828 http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14922796 http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14922852 ...which appear to differ only in what size T-shirt is included. Is that enough to warrant separate releases for each? --Torc

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, style leader hat on Using my power to override vetoes, I'm now declaring this passed. Of the two vetoes I've seen, one was unclear and appeared to be for the wrong thing and I still haven't seen any good reasons in the

Re: [mb-style] RFC-333: Unify track/recording guidelines

2011-08-04 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/7/26 Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com I've seen that many editors are unhappy about the differences between track and recording style guidelines. As far as I understand, the main goal of the relaxed track style guidelines was to simplify editing for new users. This is not what is

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Torchia wrote: Sorry, I'm voting against this until I hear a good reason why this isn't better handled through ARs I don't think this is a good reason to veto it. Right now we're deciding between putting featured artists

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On 3 August 2011 05:36, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:51 AM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/3 Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: 1) The term Feat. isn't always used to indicate this kind of relationship (and likewise, isn't the only term used that does). If we make the assumption that feat. means

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On 3 August 2011 10:27, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/3 Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: 1) The term Feat. isn't

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-03 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Torchia wrote: OK then, how about this: it's feature regression. If this happens, I have no way of excluding guest performances from an MB artist's list of recordings. Why is this so critical? Because it's a measure

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-02 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 5:51 AM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.comwrote: (On the back cover doesn't cut it.) Why? Ask the question in context: *...and until there's a functional set of criteria for determining which

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-08-01 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:01 AM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:24 AM, MeinDummy meindu...@nurfuerspam.dewrote: Your statements contradict each other. In the first one you say

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-08-01 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/1 Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:42 AM, jesus2099 hta3s836gzac...@jetable.org wrote: -1 IMO we should follow actual release style. Sometimes the guest artist is part of the artist → we already use artist credit for that. Sometimes the guest artist

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-08-01 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/1 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: No, I'm saying the reason that the feat. credit appears the way it does is irrelevant. Everybody knows that on an album, a feat. Guest credit is going

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-08-01 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/8/1 Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: Even the long-term solution wasn't seeking to find a way to include featured guests into the artist field; the intent was always to express everything through ARs. I

Re: [mb-style] RFV327: Featured artists

2011-08-01 Thread Ryan Torchia
Sorry, I'm voting against this until I hear a good reason why this isn't better handled through ARs, a plan for omitting guest feat. credits from an artist's list of recordings, and until there's a functional set of criteria for determining which credit goes where. (On the back cover doesn't cut

Re: [mb-style] RFV-SomethingElse: Updated wording for Performance AR instrumental attribute (expires 2011-07-29)

2011-07-27 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.cawrote: “instrumental” This indicates that the lyrics are not relevant for this performance of the work, such that the lyricist would not be credited. Examples include instrumental arrangements, or

Re: [mb-style] RFV-SomethingElse: Updated wording for Performance AR instrumental attribute (expires 2011-07-29)

2011-07-27 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.cawrote: On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 13:14 -0700, Ryan Torchia wrote: “instrumental” This indicates that the lyrics are not relevant for this performance of the work

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-27 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:24 AM, MeinDummy meindu...@nurfuerspam.de wrote: Your statements contradict each other. In the first one you say that (on covers) the placement of the credit is irrelevant and only the join phrase matters. In the 2nd one and basically in all your other postings to

Re: [mb-style] RFV-SomethingElse: Updated wording for Performance AR instrumental attribute (expires 2011-07-29)

2011-07-27 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/7/27 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com Normally, the intention is either to show the abilities of the beatmaker, or to allow other people to rap their own lyrics over them I'd say the first part -- that it's so people cab hear the beatmaker's track -- is enough to qualify

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-27 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:13 PM, David Gasaway d...@gasaway.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 18:13, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: No, I'm saying that a feat. alone doesn't imply anything more substantial than a cameo appearance. I'm saying if that's the only credit given

[mb-style] Collaboration Relationship?

2011-07-25 Thread Ryan Torchia
Should this guideline be mothballed? -- http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Collaboration_Relationship_Type It was focused on one-off and short term collaborations, which we now cover with Artist Credits, so I don't see much reason for it. --Torc. ___

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-25 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:10 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Torchia wrote: And because I can't think of anywhere graceful to point this out: if you move the featured credit from the track to the an artist credit field, you lose the ability to enclose it in parentheses. (Eh

Re: [mb-style] RFC-DeadParrot: Add Cardboard Sleeve to the packaging list

2011-07-25 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: Not to be a complete pain, but would anybody else prefer just changing paper sleeve to something like cardboard/paper sleeve. I'm just thinking about a bunch of releases I have in cardstock. --Torc.

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-25 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:43 AM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 1:10 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: Ryan Torchia wrote: And because I can't think of anywhere graceful

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-23 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 16:08 -0700, Ryan Torchia wrote: I would be extremely hesitant to dismiss original releases in favor of VA comps in determining credits, let alone to establish guidelines. That's dismissing

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-23 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: jacobbrett wrote: I don't mean to set the discussion back, but perhaps an additional field for featured artists (and other, non-equal/non-collab. artist credits) could be introduced to the schema? I _do_ love semantics. :P

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-23 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/7/23 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com I would like this. But! The easiest way for a transition into this would be to have feat. in the artist credit for now, so the link to the entity is there and can be auto-transformed into a relationship if we decide to ;) Actually, I

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-22 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl wrote: However, our guidelines are very focused on the english language market in my opinion, and I would like to see the guidelines be made a bit more general -- or just make it clear they don't apply to releases which are not intended

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-22 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: That's a rather large except though, isn't it? That essentially narrows down the scope of your sample to title tracks of singles. No, I was primarily thinking of compilations, mainly various artists ones. I

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-21 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: Attempt 2. The proposal: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Featured_Artists updates the http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Recording_and_release_group_titles/Featured_artists guideline for recordings and

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:17 AM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com My main point is that we should not make mb-specific movements/parts. There will be issues regarding interpretation, but hopefully a modern score will be reasonably clear. We must look more into details on opera, I'd like to

Re: [mb-style] RFV: 327 Featured Artists

2011-07-20 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: Please be advised that vetoing this proposal will retain the current recording guideline of including 'feat.' crediting in the track title for recordings and release groups. I have seen no-one in favour of this

Re: [mb-style] RFV: 327 Featured Artists

2011-07-20 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.orgwrote: On 21 July 2011 00:53, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: Please be advised that vetoing this proposal will retain

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-18 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 07/18/2011 05:30 AM, Andii Hughes wrote: 1. If the cover says 'X (feat. Y)' by Z, then artist credit is Z, title is 'X (feat. Y)' 2. If the cover says 'X' by Z feat. Y then artist credit is Z + join-phrase '

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/7/16 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com That still a common scenario, and the position that the featured artist might not deserve equal credit is absolutely correct in many cases. One would think that if they thought they didn't deserve any special credit, they wouldn't

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-15 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:21 AM, lorenz pressler l...@gmx.at wrote: feat. (or whatever synonym is used) stands for a collaboration between artists, not between a title and an artist. (It's the artist that *features*another artist, not the title) exactly my thoughts, on compilations

[mb-style] Three questions about release types...

2011-07-15 Thread Ryan Torchia
-- http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Release_Type#Compilation The section doesn't directly say it, but is compilation basically stuff that's been released before? (In other words, not stuff being released for the first time?) That's the gist I get from the examples stating anthologies are comps,

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-15 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:45 PM, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't disagree on the fact that feat. has a specific meaning different from other link phrases. A said before I wouldn't thus oppose keeping it as link phrase *between artists* even on recording level. But fact is:

Re: [mb-style] Works style guideline

2011-07-14 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca wrote: ** Fodder to get us started: - remixes: there is controversy over what makes a remix a distinct work from another - opera: track boundaries often appear at arbitrary positions of the libretto; should each

Re: [mb-style] With in artist credits

2011-07-13 Thread Ryan Torchia
2011/7/12 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Simon Reinhardt simon.reinha...@koeln.de wrote: Shouldn't artist credits completely follow the release, including capitalisation, just like track titles? Should track titles completely follow the

Re: [mb-style] With in artist credits

2011-07-13 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: From my non-English's point of view, I prefer with to With, precisely because it is different. I always find disturbing that there is no way to distinguish what we add to titles / names from what was actually in

Re: [mb-style] With in artist credits

2011-07-13 Thread Ryan Torchia
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/7/13, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: From my non-English's point of view, I prefer with to With, precisely because

[mb-style] With in artist credits

2011-07-12 Thread Ryan Torchia
The capitalization standard for English requires the word with be capitalized since it's more than three letters. There are a lot of corrections where with is being used in lowercase as a connector in artist credits. Should we have a policy one way or the other for this? --Torc.

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