On 19.09.2014 10:17, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > I've seen this in downloadable tracks from compilations (soemthing like > "#### remaster). Not very good (there could be 2 remasters the same > year) but it gives an indication. Maybe we should add a reliability > flag, allowing to say: "these sound the same" or "these are the same > according to credits". You gave an excellent suggestion that master data > should stay out of the way for uninterested users, so that for users who > are interested we can have a fairly complex UI. Thing is, we used to have those separated by them being different recordings. We then chose to throw that info away by merging different masters/remasters, even in cases where they have different information (I remember some Queen remasters having distinct ISRCs) and fingerprints. Now we try to replicate the info we've just thrown away before? Seems like a wasted effort. And I'd argue that we have more important things that need fixing.
I'm not saying the earlier decision regarding masters was necessarily the best one, quite the contrary. But it's hard to row back now. And I don't know whether it's really still worth it. In most cases the information is simply not available, and most of our users probably won't care. And if they don't care, a master entity won't see any use. > Is this the thing we want to represent, is it definable and do we > often / ever have data about it on compilations? > Do we want to attach mastering credits on a per-track basis? That > seems a bit backwards. > > Why "backwards"? There are certainly lots of situations where masters > will come from different sources. I am of course thinking of > compilations, but also of releases such as this > https://musicbrainz.org/release/86d5fc27-0b65-4750-95e2-fb42d6017c4e, > the second disc could be a different master. We just got rid of lots of mastering credits on recordings, which were moved back to releases. If we try to attach these to tracks or a new kind of entity, we are again rowing backwards. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
