Re: [mb-style] Removing stale URL relationships

2009-02-02 Thread david scotson
That's a really good idea. dave ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-11-24 Thread david scotson
Couple of questions: Does the identification of (alleged) CD-R copies work in both directions? That is, if I put in a burnt CD, could my software (or the MB API) be smart enough to say that doesn't match any CD-Indexes of official releases, but I'm 99% sure that it's a burnt copy of album X. If

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Creating a non-code AR to grou p releases into “cultural identifiers” for fu ture importing.

2008-10-10 Thread david scotson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be wrong, but if there is a box set, for example the pink floyd shine on set, we do use earliest release or remaster ARs to link them to the original albums. But, I don't think that they should be in the same

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Creating a non-code AR to grou p releases into “cultural identifiers” for fu ture importing.

2008-10-10 Thread david scotson
I think this is a good idea, but also mostly agree with this: On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Jan van Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this needed at all? 'Earliest release of' and 'Remaster of' ARs can be taken advantage of right now if you write some software. This new AR will be

Re: [mb-style] Wikipedia AR using urls with hash

2008-03-10 Thread david scotson
I'm not sure how this would be communicated to less sophisticated Musicbrainz/Wikipedia users but the following is possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_City_%2B_In_The_Woods has just been created by me, and consists only of a redirect to:

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

2006-06-19 Thread david scotson
I agree with Nikki's original request, that (album version) be left alone if that is what the original CD carries. We've already got to the tagging vs. music encyclopedia stage of the debate so to avoid this bogging down into those camps my question is: what problem is/was the guideline

Re: [mb-style] SG5...again (*ducks*)

2006-05-25 Thread david scotson
On 5/25/06, Nikki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think, really, that both of you are right. There's no way to draw a definite line between A B and A feat. B and from the evidence given, I'd say this one falls in the grey area between the two. It's not the existance of a grey area that's the

Re: What Gets Tagged Under SG5? (WAS: [mb-style] RE: AlbumTitle proposal)

2006-01-16 Thread david scotson
On 1/16/06, Rod Begbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/16/06, Chris Bransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tis ok :) i just am trying to work out what album artist means in the context of a tag. Right now, with the current limitations of ID3 tags, it's not terribly useful. If Picard (or a third