Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2012-02-03 Thread Gioele Barabucci
On 13/12/2011 06:55, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > What I want is to define what kind of genres are there, how are they > related and what tags people usually use to represent them. With this > information you can say that the tags "hip hop, hiphop, rap, usa" are > in fact mentioning only one genre - Hip

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-15 Thread Paul Taylor
On 12/12/2011 15:57, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > Hi, > > This discussion is a little off-topic here, but I can't think of a > better group of active MB users to discuss a feature like this. > > I'd like MB to have some support for genres. This was apparently > discussed at the last MB summit, but I don

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-14 Thread StoneyBoh
On 12/13/2011 1:55 AM, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > What I want is to define what kind of genres are there, how are they > related and what tags people usually use to represent them. With this > information you can say that the tags "hip hop, hiphop, rap, usa" are > in fact mentioning only one genre

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-14 Thread Oliver Charles
Lukáš Lalinský writes: > Hi, > > This discussion is a little off-topic here, but I can't think of a > better group of active MB users to discuss a feature like this. > > I'd like MB to have some support for genres. This was apparently > discussed at the last MB summit, but I don't know details ab

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-14 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Lukáš Lalinský wrote > > ...We already do have tags, the majority (but not all) of which are > genres. What I proposed here was a layer above the tagging system, > which just helps people to give some meaning to the tags that we > already have > > What I want is to define what kind of genres

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-13 Thread mudcrow
+1 I think it's a good idea. 2011/12/13 Lukáš Lalinský > Ok, so I'll try to summarize it one more time because I can see that > this mail was completely misunderstood. :) > > We already do have tags, the majority (but not all) of which are > genres. What I proposed here was a layer above the tag

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-13 Thread Aurélien Mino
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Johannes Weißl wrote: > But the link points to a graph that shows "Active users". As this graph > [2] shows, they are almost identical to the active editors. On the graph, and "Active user" is either a user who has voted or edited - that's why both graphs are almo

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-13 Thread Johannes Weißl
Hi Aurélien, On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 01:39:35PM +0100, Aurélien Mino wrote: > > [1] > > http://musicbrainz.org/statistics/timeline/main#+-v-+-c-core-entities+c-edit-information+-edit.open+-edit.perweek+-vote.perweek+-editor.votelastweek+-editor.editlastweek > > In fact a user that tags and rates

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-13 Thread Aurélien Mino
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Johannes Weißl wrote: > There are two reasons for the low usage of tags for genre I think. One > is that we don't have enough active users [1] [...] > > [1] > http://musicbrainz.org/statistics/timeline/main#+-v-+-c-core-entities+c-edit-information+-edit.open+-edi

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-13 Thread Johannes Weißl
Hello Lukáš, On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 07:55:43AM +0100, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > We already do have tags, the majority (but not all) of which are > genres. What I proposed here was a layer above the tagging system, > which just helps people to give some meaning to the tags that we > already have. Th

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-12 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Ok, so I'll try to summarize it one more time because I can see that this mail was completely misunderstood. :) We already do have tags, the majority (but not all) of which are genres. What I proposed here was a layer above the tagging system, which just helps people to give some meaning to the ta

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-12 Thread Nikki
Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > The idea for now is just to define the genre lists and relations > between them. It does not deal with the problem of assigning entities > like artists to genres (I think that SoundUnwound has a nice solution > to this though). Perhaps you should briefly explain their solut

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-12 Thread Andii Hughes
size of MusicBrainz. > > > -Original Message- > From: musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org > [mailto:musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of Lukáš > Lalinský > Sent: 12 December 2011 15:58 > To: MusicBrainz style discussion > Subj

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-12 Thread Maurits Meulenbelt
-Original Message- From: musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org [mailto:musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of Lukáš Lalinský Sent: 12 December 2011 15:58 To: MusicBrainz style discussion Subject: [mb-style] Genre support Hi, This discussion is a little off-topic

Re: [mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-12 Thread Pete Marsh
Original Message- From: musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org [mailto:musicbrainz-style-boun...@lists.musicbrainz.org] On Behalf Of Lukáš Lalinský Sent: 12 December 2011 15:58 To: MusicBrainz style discussion Subject: [mb-style] Genre support Hi, This discussion is a little off-topic

[mb-style] Genre support

2011-12-12 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Hi, This discussion is a little off-topic here, but I can't think of a better group of active MB users to discuss a feature like this. I'd like MB to have some support for genres. This was apparently discussed at the last MB summit, but I don't know details about that. http://wiki.musicbrainz.or