On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 03:01, symphonick <symphon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, sorry I was unclear. It should have said "Recording/Artist credits.", > only the first paragraph dealt with track(list) artists. (see the RFC for > Recording artist credits) Okay, sorry for spilling the track AC discussion over into the other thread, then. As a matter of fact, I didn't express myself well in the other thread anyway, so let me clarify below. > To clarify the track artist discussion: right now I have 2 suggestions: > 1. leave at default value (=Release Artist, featured composers & performers > suggested) > 2. set to composer > > 1 is the easiest; the problem with it is if you actually want to use the > data there's a good chance that it's incorrect > 2 is old CSG-style For a concrete examples why (1) could a problem, see: [a] http://musicbrainz.org/release/720fa605-51b4-48f7-852f-ff1069b19402 [b] http://musicbrainz.org/release/b3969b7f-f006-412c-b72b-b849fc7e2732 [c1] http://musicbrainz.org/release/98a01ae6-aaf9-4678-a99a-4fd253a33c8b [c2] https://www.murfie.com/albums/20574 [a] Has no prominent release composer. [b] Has two prominent release composers - will tracks 1-3 have Vaughan Williams in the ACs, and track 4 have Elgar? [c] Tasmin Little is a release featured artist, but only involved in 4 tracks out of 9. A third option would be... Track ACs have a) the composer (which is always going to be credited in the back-cover track list), and b) which ever release ACs apply to the track. But still, I have concerns, which I explain next. Let me restate the points I was making yesterday (hopefully, more coherently). These are in response to the idea that I can make a choice between tagging ARTIST from track ACs or work ACs. 1) Even if Picard had this option, it's not a one-time either-or choice for me. I listen to both classical and popular music. Perpetually toggling a switch to get reasonable results is not appealing. 2) I use last.fm. And sometimes when I scrobble a track, last.fm overrides my choice of artist which a choice of its own. Obviously, their choice must be based on some other set of data -- MusicBrainz data, near as I can tell. So, regardless of my own choices, how third parties use MusicBrainz data has an impact on me, as well. 3) Third parties like last.fm cannot make a release-to-release choice between an option that works for popular and an option that works for classical. They can make only once choice. -- -:-:- David K. Gasaway -:-:- Email: d...@gasaway.org _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
