On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/6/7, Lukáš Lalinský <lalin...@gmail.com>: >> I think that the guidelines regarding release/track titles should be >> based on the previous guidelines, white-listing things that don't have >> to be applied to recording/track titles. If we want to allow people to >> submit releases "as on cover" without reading the release >> group/recording guidelines, we will end up with a FreeDB clone. > > I really don't think so. IMO the problem with FreeDB is redundancy and > mistakes, so that it is very difficult to decide which is the correct > information when offered more than one answer and when you get only > one release, you're not even sure it is error-free. What we are > suggesting has nothing to do with these issues. Allowing to enter > titles as printed would not create redundancy (in a way, it would be > the contrary), and requiring to enter it as printed does not make it > harder to check or correct.
"What is actually printed is a piece of information which has it's value. I already said this before: if I had to choose between as printed and normalized, I wouldn't hesitate and choose normalization. But we can have both, and I know some (many?) users want the printed data." My thoughts exactly. > > -- > Frederic Da Vitoria > (davitof) > > Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - > http://www.april.org > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
