Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles & instrumentation

2011-08-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/8/9, Paul C. Bryan : > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 10:36 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > >> 2011/8/8, Paul C. Bryan : >> > 3. Punctuation still seems problematic. I would definitely recommend a >> > comma between the work title and the catalog number, as in: &qu

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles & instrumentation

2011-08-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
read. But why there and not "Sonate für Klavier, Nr. 29 B-Dur Op. 106" or "Sonate für Klavier Nr. 29, B-Dur Op. 106" or...? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _

Re: [mb-style] RFV-333: Unify track/recording guidelines

2011-08-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
;> bad when we know a title is being *consistently* in a certain different >> way >> that is not matching some people’s personal preferences. > > I don't understand what you mean by "φ"... I guess jesus2099 meant "physical", material -- Frederic Da

Re: [mb-style] Works and remixes/covers

2011-08-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/8/6, SwissChris : > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >> 2011/8/5 SwissChris >> >>> We should clearly keep classical out of this debate, since "arrangement" >>> in classical also stands for everything we'd

Re: [mb-style] Works and remixes/covers

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
y: if I don't really understand, probably many non-English users will hesitate too. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] Works and remixes/covers

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/8/5 Alex Mauer > On 08/05/2011 02:19 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > It's been more than 2 months, but a discussion with Jesus2099 made me > > realize this: a new arranger should not be considered as a sufficient > reason > > to create a new Work. AFAI

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/8/5 Frederic Da Vitoria > 2011/8/5 jesus2099 > >> SL>> I can see the Arranger AR at work level as useful being useful for >> Classical >> SL>> primarily (and maybe a few other genres that I don't have experience >> with) >> SL>>

Re: [mb-style] Works and remixes/covers

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
esus2099 made me realize this: a new arranger should not be considered as a sufficient reason to create a new Work. AFAIK the rules for considering 2 recordings are still being discussed, but a new arranger is not a reason IMO. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l&

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
that’s how people who agreed with adding > work-artist arrange link feel too. > As I said, I wouldn't want too much variations of a work, Works are still for me a way of grouping Recordings, so if almost each Recording has it's own Work, this would effectively cancel any grouping.

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. So I partially agree with jesus2099 here: we should discourage Work duplication and state that users should not create a new Work merely to link it to an arranger. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
and we cram music information in it (and lose every part of data which does not fit in the rigid structure), or we accept that music is larger and more complex than any system we will ever be able to build and we learn to live with the deficiencies of our machines. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (d

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ot;That' the right way" according to you, not to me :-) Aggregating Works your way loses information I find valuable. While with a little SQL magic, it should be possible to collate your view from my hierarchy. Note that I'd probably use your view too at times. But at other times, I

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-05 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
eate a separate MB Work in non classical music, so that it will be our job, editors as well as voters to decide for each arrangement whether it should be entered as a separate MB Work or not. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles & instrumentation

2011-08-04 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
arch urtexts. I'd like a guideline that is applied universally > across all composers so that I get consistent tags, too. What canonical name would you suggest? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april

Re: [mb-style] RFC-333: Unify track/recording guidelines

2011-08-02 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
t, having separate guidelines for titles > and recordings means it's more difficult to maintain MusicBrainz. I disagree: As-printed wouldn't require a difficult guideline, while I am still unsure of the differences between tracks and recordings following your proposal. Because you although

Re: [mb-style] RFC-333: Unify track/recording guidelines

2011-08-02 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
anyone to understand someone who does not state his point of view. You want something? Ok, but the least you can do is say so. The "you" in my 2 last sentences were not for you Jesus2099, since you precisely are saying what you think :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l&#x

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part II: Subtitles & instrumentation

2011-07-31 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
rtett in G, K. 80/73f > > Instruments: 2 violins, viola, cello (OR string quartet?) > > Ideally, the instruments themselves would be entities (so they can > have aliases, link to wikipedia pages, etc.). In any case, both of > these solutions are long term, so we have time to

Re: [mb-style] RFC-333: Unify track/recording guidelines

2011-07-31 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. During practical editing, users will often have to edit both in the same session. For example, entering a classical music release, the user will have to enter a classical track and a classical recording, it would be very useful if the documentation explained: "in tracks enter this, (

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/26, Ryan Torchia : > 2011/7/26 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren > >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Ryan Torchia >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria < >> davito...@gmail.com> >> > wro

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Oops, I was convinced I was on your sandbox. Undone. Thanks for copying my modifications to your sandbox. 2011/7/26, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> Done. Sorry, I forgot to give an edit comment on my second edit. I &

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Done. Sorry, I forgot to give an edit comment on my second edit. I edited the guidelines too, but if anyone disagrees, please undo. 2011/7/26, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> I also think "This links two versions

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
sions is derived from the other". 2011/7/26, Frederic Da Vitoria : > I think the guidelines 1, 3 & 4 are completely off-topic :-) > > The second is wrong in this context IMO. If C is derived from B and B > is derived from A, I'd prefer it if we linked the Works that way. &

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
wiki.musicbrainz.org/Other_Version_Relationship_Type a bit so > it reflects what it actually does now, but of course it still has no > updated guidelines, as those would need to go through the list anyway. > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
I can imagine a parody in another language than the original, and in this case "translated" would not be really correct. I guess creating the UI for such an AR would be possible, but what about the wordings? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et dé

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
song] Torc, you may have given here the best argument for Nicolás' suggestion to set Derivative as a parent of Other version: the fact that we will probably often be unable to choose if it is close enough to be considered as another version. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof)

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/25, symphonick : > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:10:31 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >> Maybe there are two "derivative works". I'd say there is a general >> abstract (in the OOP sense of the word) derivative work which would >> include anything

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/25, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> 2011/7/25, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : >>> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Other_Version_Relationship_Type is >>> completely outdated / wrong (it seems it was &q

Re: [mb-style] Later version vs. Derivative work

2011-07-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ution would change the meaning of existing ARs. I don't see any reason to say that "derivative work" is the parent of "other version" either. Why does one have to be the parent of the other, couldn't they be siblings? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de

Re: [mb-style] RFC-DeadParrot: Add "Cardboard Sleeve" to the packaging list

2011-07-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/25, Ryan Torchia : > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:17 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > > Not to be a complete pain, but would anybody else prefer just changing paper > sleeve to something like "cardboard/paper sleeve". I'm just thinking about > a bunch of

Re: [mb-style] RFC-DeadParrot: Add "Cardboard Sleeve" to the packaging list

2011-07-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ask anyone in the street what he understands if told about "paper > sleeve") or "Other", both quite crappy options. So, let's add > Cardboard Sleeve, shall we? Yes, this makes sense to me. Sometimes, pure scientific consistency must give way to bad usage :-) -- Frederic Da

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/21 Aurélien Mino > On 07/21/2011 01:20 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > so that your example is theoretical to me :-) > > > > Theoretical, like your editing activity on MB since NGS release...? :-) > Exactly. But my remark was not aggressive, I suppose Lukáš u

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC: CSG - work types

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/21, Lukáš Lalinský : > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> More generally, I'm starting to wonder if we should not request >> Advanced Attributes. These would work like Advanced Relationships but >> instead of linking 2 items, the

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC: CSG - work types

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ch property, only those where editors have found it relevant), I'm sure we could find quite a lot of uses. But I guess this would require a separate thread. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists (attempt 2)

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
> release groups, > > and that none yet exist for tracks and release titles other than > > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Track_and_release_titles > > > > RFC Expiry Date: 28th of July, 2011 (in 7 days) > > > > Comments? > > I'd like to veto this RF

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/21 Lukáš Lalinský > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > > 2011/7/21, Lukáš Lalinský : > >> Oh, and to give an example of recording/title artist credits. > >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/611e82cc-5db0-39d0-b47e-df42b75c74

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/21 Lukáš Lalinský > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > > I'm going to need a little more info :-) > > > > 2011/7/21, Lukáš Lalinský : > >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > >> wrote: >

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
so I'd use Yazoo, so that your example is theoretical to me :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrai

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
I'm going to need a little more info :-) 2011/7/21, Lukáš Lalinský : > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> Could you give actual examples of your issues? I find it difficult to >> understand what you think is wrong. > > 1. http://music

Re: [mb-style] Pre-RFC: CSG - work types

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
d work like Advanced Relationships but instead of linking 2 items, they would be linked to only one item. We could categorize AAs just like we do with ARs, create new ones, add AAs to elements which need them, all this without requiring a schema modification. For example, in this case, we'd ne

Re: [mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

2011-07-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
people (and I expect they are vast majority of MB users), > NGS is worse than MB was before. > > Do you think it's possible to revert these style guidelines at this > point? I expect that most people either never read them or ignored > them, so there isn't much data changes,

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ield cannot be set for alias #2). Too bad. When we discussed of catalogs earlier, we forgot that putting some catalog numbers in comments would probably mean that they are not searchable. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - htt

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/20, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> 2011/7/20, symphonick : >>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:55:34 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria >>> wrote: >>> >>>>> I'm not so sure about th

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/20, symphonick : > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:55:34 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >>> I'm not so sure about the English title for the cantata; to me it looks >>> weird if the cantata is sung with German text. Perhaps we need to take >>> the &

Re: [mb-style] RFC-SomethingElse: Updated wording for Performance AR "instrumental" attribute

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
addition to this > performance relation, you should link a karaoke track to its > original version with the [Karaoke Relationship Type]. +1 This could not happen if karaoke and instrumental had been mutually exclusive attributes of the performance AR, but of course this woul

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/20, symphonick : > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:22:47 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >>> Aliases: For titled works, use only if the work is known locally under a >>> different name. > >> What do you mean here by "locally"? Locally to the

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ic roles are not part of the title. Can we agree on using the > annotation, or does anyone really want: > Nixon in China: Act 3 "I am no one" (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, > Pat, Nixon) > I vote for using the annotation. > Q2: Delimiters? > > > Enou

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
is. Also in the examples above, should "Ballet" and "Orchestral" be > lowercase? > I think you are right, since they are not part of the title, I'd put them in lowercase. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logic

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: CSG for works, part I: titled works

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
for the time being. I agree. But I guess sometimes we will have to do exceptions for some works. An idea: we could decide to put catalog numbers in the comment instead of the title... No, I guess the comment is not used by searches and searching by number is definit

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add date fields usage to the Performance AR guidelines

2011-07-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ecorded between 2010-07-03 and 2010-07-12". This is not a problem of "exact" date, but rather of recording a poorly defined date. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/19, symphonick : > On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:13:00 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >>>> And create 32 ARs for a global performance of the Goldberg Variations? >>>> It >>>> seems a little overkill to me, but if you feel it is really important

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/18, symphonick : > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:23:14 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >>> I agree. So what I'm trying to say is that it is - as always - >>> preferable >>> to be as specific as possible, if the data is available. & if we kno

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/18 symphonick > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:02:02 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > > > 2011/7/18, symphonick : > > >> 1. A performance AR between a recording & the appropriate movements is > >> the > >> most accurate we can do. > >&g

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/18, symphonick : > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:29:56 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >>>> 2011/7/18, symphonick : > >>>> Recording linked to the super-work: fuzzy - a performance of the whole >>>> super-work, but unsure about exactly which p

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
be much simpler. And don't try to sell me a 2-level normalization system. I already had difficulties to memorize a few of the mysterious rules of the pre-NGS one-level system, I'd never manage to learn a 2-level system. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/18, symphonick : > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:43:33 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >> 2011/7/18, symphonick : > >> Recording linked to the super-work: fuzzy - a performance of the whole >> super-work, but unsure about exactly which parts are performed >

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/18, Frederic Da Vitoria : > 2011/7/18, symphonick : > Isn't this what the "partial" attribute is for? Or do you mean the > editor doesn't even know if the performance is partial or not? But > then, when ARing to a movement, how are we sure it is a full >

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/18, symphonick : Isn't this what the "partial" attribute is for? Or do you mean the editor doesn't even know if the performance is partial or not? But then, when ARing to a movement, how are we sure it is a full performance of the movement? -- Frederic Da Vitoria

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Classical "superworks" and "performance of" links

2011-07-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
full opera in one take... -- 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

Re: [mb-style] Works style guideline

2011-07-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
> I disagree. Not with merging remixes into one work (which is probably the best idea IMO) but with removing this from this list. This is a list of issues. remixes is one of those issues. We should address it. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et déf

Re: [mb-style] Bandcamp label?

2011-07-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
uld be if we would have different > releases for different encodings look at this: > http://www.discogs.com/master/79823 > I disagree about "not useful", but I agree "not useful enough for the amount of data which would probably have to be added" :-) -- F

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add date fields usage to the Performance AR guidelines

2011-07-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
fferent concert the following day. > > That seems very confusing to me as well. > I agree. I am glad we don't record hours, because this would be very difficult to solve :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et déf

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-07-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
27;t think that data duplication between wikipedia and MB is a good argument. If we start removing everything wikipedia has, MB will become unusable :-) I disagree also strongly that original country does not belong in a musical database. The original country is much more music relevant

Re: [mb-style] Works style guideline

2011-07-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
y a few seconds shorter > than > > their album versions, but there's also cases like the Yes singles > mentioned > > above, or the single edit of "Thick as a Brick". > > I would use "partial performance of work" for those. > I suggest we stick to

Re: [mb-style] Works style guideline

2011-07-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
new cover a different work? If not, is there a point (which may be difficult to define) where the answer would be yes? I guess most users agree on the answers, but it should at least be clearly stated. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-07-14 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
historical country data anywhere? I'm not sure we really want to get >>> > involved in deciding what was a country or not ourselves... >>> > >>> > Nikki >>> >>> _______ >>> MusicBrainz-style mailing list >>> Music

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-07-14 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
derstand, if the list should stay as it is and the field should contain the modern day country, how or when do you suggest we use historical country? Or did you mean something like adding a field for the historical country? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April -

Re: [mb-style] "With" in artist credits

2011-07-14 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/14 Ryan Torchia > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >> 2011/7/13, Ryan Torchia : >> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria >> > wrote: >> > >> >> From my non-English's point of

Re: [mb-style] "With" in artist credits

2011-07-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/13, Ryan Torchia : > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >> From my non-English's point of view, I prefer "with" to "With", >> precisely because it is different. I always find disturbing that there >> is no w

Re: [mb-style] "With" in artist credits

2011-07-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/13, Frederic Da Vitoria : > 2011/7/13, Ryan Torchia : >> 2011/7/12 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren >> >>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Simon Reinhardt >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Shouldn't artist credits completely follow the re

Re: [mb-style] "With" in artist credits

2011-07-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
either way, but we should at least have a > standard so we can aim for consistency. >From my non-English's point of view, I prefer "with" to "With", precisely because it is different. I always find disturbing that there is no way to distinguish what we add to t

Re: [mb-style] policy on merging of recordings

2011-07-12 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
significantly different digital transfers (case 1), how do we decide which of those transfers was used for the final encoding, at least in the case of lossy encodings. Sometimes there are indications, but when there are none? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l&

Re: [mb-style] policy on merging of recordings

2011-07-11 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ng "good" recordings, these catchall recordings would gradually lose links to tracks. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailin

Re: [mb-style] policy on merging of recordings

2011-07-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
l mastering and (re-)mixing)" mean that different masters should be represented by different recordings or not? If they should be separated, then merging them could be dangerous because it could lead to merging a poor-quality transfer, a good quality later transfer, and a not-so-good still later

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add date fields usage to the Performance AR guidelines

2011-07-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
eparate live recordings from the same series of concerts. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/10 Nikki > Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > Maybe with an example? I can't recall one in English-speaking releases. I > > can only offer this one in French: > > http://musicbrainz.org/recording/41609890-c0bb-4d73-9e4c-fa7ed6e5aa0b. > Of > > course, it i

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. I can only offer this one in French: http://musicbrainz.org/recording/41609890-c0bb-4d73-9e4c-fa7ed6e5aa0b. Of course, it is not yet edited accordingly to the new Style for compilation recordings. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
gt; > Well, so what do you/others suggest? Change the guideline? I fear I have >> > to remove the standalone recordings for hidden tracks again... it >> > doesn't feel right if the guideline forbids it. >> > >> > Maybe it is better to link the combined record

Re: [mb-style] Defining packaging

2011-07-04 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/4, Kuno Woudt : > Hello, > > On 04/07/11 10:03, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: >> I think Torc was right in his method (although I may disagree in his >> conclusions). Before defining what (and how) we want to store, we >> should answer to the question "what f

Re: [mb-style] Defining packaging

2011-07-04 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
should answer to the question "what for". As long as we don't clearly define the aims, we will have fruitless discussions because we will effectively and unknowingly be discussing different things. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défend

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/1, Johannes Weißl : > Hello Frederic, > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:19:30PM +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: >> > Track relationships and recording relationships are the same thing. >> >> Was this done deliberately? Now that I think of it, I guess the real &

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/1, Nikki : > Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: >>> The Compilation AR applies currently to tracks only. For your >>> suggestion to work, it would have to be extended to work for >>> Recordings too. > > Track relationships and recording relationships are the sam

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/7/1, Frederic Da Vitoria : > 2011/7/1, Michael Wiencek : >> The proposed RFC will modify the multiple titles style page[1] for >> recordings/release groups and replace it with this one: >> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Bitmap/Multiple_titles >> >>

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style for compilation recordings

2011-07-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
extended to work for Recordings too. But then, I wonder if the word "Compilation" is appropriate. Maybe a more generic word, for example "join" would be better suited, which means that instead of extending the Compilation AR, we should create a new recording-recording AR. --

Re: [mb-style] Partial performances of aggregate works

2011-06-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/30, Frederic Da Vitoria : > 2011/6/30, symphonick : >> 2011/6/30 Frederic Da Vitoria >> >>> >>> But by removing the AR, you are saying that the recording is not from >>> the Planets, which is not inaccurate: it is completely false. >>>

Re: [mb-style] Partial performances of aggregate works

2011-06-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/30, symphonick : > 2011/6/30 Frederic Da Vitoria > >> >> But by removing the AR, you are saying that the recording is not from >> the Planets, which is not inaccurate: it is completely false. >> > > No, I am saying that it is not a recording of all the

Re: [mb-style] Partial performances of aggregate works

2011-06-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
the AR, you are saying that the recording is not from the Planets, which is not inaccurate: it is completely false. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ Musi

Re: [mb-style] Partial performances of aggregate works

2011-06-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
nnot have partial performances. >> >> > Just a very short answer for know: a super-work / agregate work is not = a > work. Too short answer :-) Could you explain why not? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir e

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add guidelines for format sizes

2011-06-28 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
current simple list, all formats should be completely unambiguous. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] RFV-322: Partial Attribute for Performed Relationship Type

2011-06-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
nz.org/edit/14554609 > [3] > http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Performed_Relationship_Type_Attributes +1 -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/24 Nikki > Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > > Ok, I reformulate my question: Do we want to record ISO-compliant > > country, a political country or Artist Intent? The ISO list is only a > > starting point, and I believe it was not meant to be enforced. > > I'

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Brittany, > > To answer to the purpose to introduce the country field should be addressed > first. 2 and 3 are the ones I would find the most useful, as they could show me similarities between artists. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Mem

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
AR, a Home Country AR, a Nationality AR and so on. But we could as well decide to create only one AR for all of these if we decide using all would be too much. > Sebastien > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: > >> 2011/6/24, Lemire, Sebastien : >&g

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
n-quebecois artists. And also, > I'm not even of the minority that wants to separate... Ah, yes, of course, how could I miss this obvious and frequent issue with the strictly administrative way of dealing with this issue :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - «

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/6/24, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria > wrote: >> 2011/6/24, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren : >>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Kuno Woudt wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> On 22/06/11 10:

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
n, then this is Artist Intent and I don't see how the edits could be contested. Actually, we are currently contradicting Artist Intent by refusing to acknowledge such statements from artists. Which means that the real question is: should we follow such a guide? Do we want to follow an ISO

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add guidelines for format sizes

2011-06-24 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
as CD-R." It absolutely does not change the meaning, it only makes the rule more immediately visible. I guess using commas instead of parentheses would work too. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logici

Re: [mb-style] CSG Classical composition catalogue/opus numbers

2011-06-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
el catalogs, but also making search more technically efficient. The only way I can see to implement it in the current database structure would be to use ARs, linking a Work to a Catalog. We don't have a Catalog table currently, but maybe we could use the Works table until a Catalog table is c

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add "Super Jewel Box" to release packaging list

2011-06-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
ll. There are many variations of jewel boxes, this is just > one of them, I see no need to distinguish between them. I like Super Jewel Boxes (I love the way the booklet is inserted and removed). But I don't think that we need that level of information. Using a generic Jewel gives us enough i

[mb-style] Merge Slim Jewel Case into Jewel Case (was: Re: RFC: Add "Super Jewel Box" to release packaging list)

2011-06-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Slim Jewel Case" into "Jewel Case" too, in your > opinion? (I wouldn't mind it myself either way, but if not it feels > weird) I am not so sure, but there is one difference: the Slim Jewel Case does not allow for a booklet. Of course, Jewe

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add Prussia and Russia to list of countries for historical purposes

2011-06-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Russian composers to Russian Federation, you > could just not set a country for them (it's not mandatory after all). I don't think we should mix historical origin with hard rules. The list was taken from the ISO list, but AFAIK, it was never said that it should or should not u

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