Re: [mb-style] RFC: Torrents as Releases (Was: Billboard's "topwhatever")

2006-08-01 Thread snarly j. dwarf
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:30:13PM +0200, Don Redman wrote: > > Does this mean that in fact Billboard's Top whatever is nothing but a > *playlist*. In this case, yes. Billboard distributes it (for money either online or in books) as just a list of songs, or in the case of the books with some a

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Torrents as Releases (Was: Billboard's "topwhatever")

2006-08-01 Thread snarly j. dwarf
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:05:24PM +0200, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > Note that popularity _of the torrent_ was not the originally-proposed > criterion. Instead the popularity _of the compilation_ was cited. > (Although, a torrent compilation that has tens of thousands of > downloads might be considere

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Torrents as Releases (Was: Billboard's "top whatever")

2006-07-31 Thread snarly j. dwarf
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:21:42PM +0200, Don Redman wrote: > Hmm, there has not been a lot of response to my request. Strange thing, > since a lot of people voted. Well there was a bit of discussion before your posting, and I think (at least for me) that people felt they said enough and didn't

Re: [mb-style] Billboard's "top whatever"

2006-07-25 Thread snarly j. dwarf
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:43:05AM +0200, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > How can we then look at a collection of all the songs in one of > Billboard's (*) tops and dismiss it as a "homebrew" just because it > was not released on a physical bootleg CD from Russia(**), but > through a torrent? I have seen

Re: [mb-style] Joined re-release of albums

2006-06-24 Thread snarly j. dwarf
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:58:18PM +0200, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: > I do remember at some point the rules mentioned that, but I can't find > it anymore. What is our policy? And may I suggest making the docs a > bit more clear? (After I see some answers, I can change the wiki, but > the [4] popup I th