Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Bram van Dijk
The way I see it, MusicBrainz collects the metadata of official and bootleg releases and whatnot. One thing we do not do is adding my personal best 13 tracks ever compilation in the database, which I selected for my car cd-player. Why not? Because it is of no use to anybody else! IMHO with

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Now that there has been some discussion I've remade the edit at http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8756845, vote as you will. If someone feels that the there is more to add to either side of the argument (I don't really) then I can cancel the edit. Philip On 5/10/08, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Chris B
yes, i realise this. this is not a problem for a database, though, and the interface for such a facility would have to be completely redone anyway so you could easily allow this. 2008/5/9 Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't - we'll end up then having to allow the same discID several

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen
Brian Schweitzer skrev: I don't - we'll end up then having to allow the same discID several times on the same release as well. It's quite possible and far from rare for the same CD master, generating the same toc, to be reused in different countries, for rereleases, etc. So? I don't see

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Brian Schweitzer
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen freso.dk@ gmail.com wrote: Brian Schweitzer skrev: I don't - we'll end up then having to allow the same discID several times on the same release as well. It's quite possible and far from rare for the same CD master, generating the

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
In this case it isn't very hard to determine for a human, but a script can't determine it at all since there is no legit discid to compare with. As for all the other cruft discids, while a script might do a good job at finding candidates, human intervention will always be needed and if someone

[mb-style] RFC: Minor wording change to SubTitleStyle

2008-05-10 Thread Lauri Watts
Proposal: Change the wording From: Use a colon (:) to separate multi-line parts of a ReleaseTitle. to: Use a colon (:) to separate parts of a ReleaseTitle Where: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SubTitleStyle Why: 1) It unnecessarily restricts http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle where the

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Minor wording change to SubTitleStyle

2008-05-10 Thread Paul C. Bryan
+1 On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 17:44 +0200, Lauri Watts wrote: Proposal: Change the wording From: Use a colon (:) to separate multi-line parts of a ReleaseTitle. to: Use a colon (:) to separate parts of a ReleaseTitle Where: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SubTitleStyle Why: 1) It

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Minor wording change to SubTitleStyle

2008-05-10 Thread Chad Wilson
Mos' def. Chad / voice Lauri Watts wrote: Proposal: Change the wording From: Use a colon (:) to separate multi-line parts of a ReleaseTitle. to: Use a colon (:) to separate parts of a ReleaseTitle Where: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SubTitleStyle Why: 1) It unnecessarily restricts

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-10 Thread Chris B
2008/5/10 Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen If we could figure that that 1996 Brazilian release's toc was the one with funky times, sure, that could be helpful. So, I could maybe see why it might be useful for people to attach