Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-10 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Robert Kaye wrote: > 1. We will store DVDs in MusicBrainz and we'll start doing this by using > the existing album structure. So, now people can add DVDs to the database. Perhaps it's time to update/change http://musicbrainz.org/style.html#styleguide-data-track (and corresponding http://wiki.music

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-10 Thread Don Redman
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 23:44:06 +0200, Beth wrote: I do think we should have an attribute of video, or dvd, or other added to the "album, single, ep" tree. If it's possible. As an interim measure until the album attributes get restructured and we have proper media types, yes. I am no exp

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Nikki
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:42:05PM +0200, derGraph wrote: > As long as we don't have such an attribute we could either stop adding > DVDs (but I'm too much a realist to believe this would happen), or change > the album titles, maybe "[Video] Title" or "Video: Title". I think this is even worse th

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Chris Bransden
IMO it's at odds with how people will be using them. if i'm tagging my audio rip of a live performance dvd, having "Video: X" seems unneccesary. and if you're tagging a video rip (assuming the tagger could do so, and in time i suppose it probably will), it would be even more unneccasary, as of cour

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread derGraph
Orion wrote: How is formatting them as "Video: Title" really different from formatting them as "Title (DVD)"? That's simple: it is not. Except that "DVD" is media specific. And the format "[Video] Title" also has the advantage that the brackets are not taken by another style guideline. I ju

RE: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Beth
To: MusicBrainz style discussion Subject: Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?) Chris Bransden wrote: > On 08/04/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just a little question, how will we know (or how do we say) that an >> entry is a d

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Orion
derGraph wrote: I don't think this is a sufficient solution to the problem. On the artist's page, the 'album' listing reads "Albums", "Singles", "EPs", etc. It currently says nothing about 'videos'. And this is not a matter of the physical medium, but a matter of content. An 'album' might be a

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread derGraph
Chris Bransden wrote: On 08/04/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a little question, how will we know (or how do we say) that an entry is a dvd. Maybe this is already handled but I couldn't find any reference to it. annotation I don't think this is a sufficient solutio

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 4/9/06, Robert Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another thought is to include annotation text in the lucene search > indexes. Thus if someone adds the word dvd into the annotation, an > annotation search should find it. Thoughts? That's pretty cool! Not just for DVDs, but also for searches for

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Robert Kaye
On Apr 9, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Jan van Thiel wrote: On 4/8/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was asking because Robert wrote: "Once we get a few (more) into the database, we will see how people have been adding them and only then start creating "official" guidelines for how DV

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 4/8/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was asking because Robert wrote: "Once we get a few > (more) into the database, we will see how people have been adding > them and only then start creating "official" guidelines for how DVDs > will be entered", but in order to do this, w

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-08 Thread Orion
Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I was asking because Robert wrote: "Once we get a few (more) into the database, we will see how people have been adding them and only then start creating "official" guidelines for how DVDs will be entered", but in order to do this, we must be able to retrieve the dvds e

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
I was asking because Robert wrote: "Once we get a few (more) into the database, we will see how people have been adding them and only then start creating "official" guidelines for how DVDs will be entered", but in order to do this, we must be able to retrieve the dvds entered! 2006/4/8, Chris Bran

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-08 Thread Chris Bransden
well, we currently don't filter vinyl, cassette, cd, etc so i think it's ok. that said, i think this kinda stuff will all be solved once we get http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTypeRestructuringProposal :) On 08/04/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. Is there currently a way

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Ok. Is there currently a way to filter albums by specifying a word from an annotation? I couldn't find one. We will need it when we want to have a list of dvds entered in MB. I mean, if we put DVD (among other things) in the annotation to say the entry is actually a dvd, how will we get a list of t

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-08 Thread Chris Bransden
annotation On 08/04/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/4/8, Robert Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think Don's summary of the DVD issues is pretty close to what we > > should go with. > > > > > > > > 1. We will store DVDs in MusicBrainz and we'll start doing this by > > usi

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2006/4/8, Robert Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think Don's summary of the DVD issues is pretty close to what we > should go with. > > > > 1. We will store DVDs in MusicBrainz and we'll start doing this by > using the existing album structure. > 2. We will not use DVD in the title. > 3. We can star

[mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Kaye
I think Don's summary of the DVD issues is pretty close to what we should go with. 1. We will store DVDs in MusicBrainz and we'll start doing this by using the existing album structure. 2. We will not use DVD in the title. 3. We can start adding DVDs into MusicBrainz. Once we get a few (