Re: [mb-style] Classical Composers vs Artists

2009-01-19 Thread Adam Golding
let's not forget that last.fm scrobbles by 'artist' not by 'composer' unless you're lucky enough to be using software that scrobbles by MBID 2009/1/19 Dave Smey > On Mon, January 19, 2009 8:05 pm, Jason Longland wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > Just curious with the classical styling guide as to why

Re: [mb-style] Classical Composers vs Artists

2009-01-19 Thread Dave Smey
On Mon, January 19, 2009 8:05 pm, Jason Longland wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Just curious with the classical styling guide as to why with the advent > of ID3v2 tagging you still force it to use the Composer as the Artists > when the newer ID3 tags all have the composer field available. Yeah, this comes

Re: [mb-style] Classical Composers vs Artists

2009-01-19 Thread Aaron Cooper
Who would the artist be - the orchestra, the conductor, or the soloist? There are times when we set the ReleaseArtist to a performer already - see http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle In a perfect MB world, all performers would have performance AdvancedRelationships on the rele

[mb-style] Classical Composers vs Artists

2009-01-19 Thread Jason Longland
Hi Guys, Just curious with the classical styling guide as to why with the advent of ID3v2 tagging you still force it to use the Composer as the Artists when the newer ID3 tags all have the composer field available. After all, would it not make more sense to use the Artist who actually performed t