Re: [mb-style] CSG: research for Release names artists

2011-05-23 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
] *On Behalf Of *Frederic Da Vitoria *Sent:* May-23-11 4:49 AM *To:* MusicBrainz Style Discussion *Subject:* Re: [mb-style] CSG: research for Release names artists We could also explain this rule by explaining that it also puts last the Artists which could often be omitted for disambiguation

Re: [mb-style] CSG: research for Release names artists

2011-05-23 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
to a large extent what order the other artists come in, as they are much less likely to be used for that purpose. I agree. I should have added the composer, I was concentrating on the performer part, so that I forgot him. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre

Re: [mb-style] CSG: separate [mb-classical] list?

2011-05-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/22 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Yes, good points. Does that mean you think we should have a separate mb-classical list then? I'm guessing from the lack of responses that most people don't care whether we have a mb-classical list or not? :P No, I meant

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Less VA?

2011-05-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
track order (you did not write Bramhs, Tjaijkovskij) which is a good idea. -- 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] CSG: Less VA?

2011-05-20 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/20 Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Tjaijkovskij Bramhs is definitely better than VA IMO, although it tends to suggest that the release contains some work composed by both. What would

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/19 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Thu, 19 May 2011 11:59:53 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: But I'm leaning towards just accepting the version on the liner for tracknames. Or making standardization of catalogue optional, if you think it could work

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Concept of works group

2011-05-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
an important matter. There was a discussion about it a few months ago : http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Granularity-of-works-td3078828.html#a3080472 -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC: The dates... designed only for duration, not for dating events

2011-05-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
instead of before . If I enter only the first date... composed from to present instead of after . and obviously no way to indicate YYY1 or YYY2, or ca. It is minor... but sources of open discussions in edits. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April

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

2011-05-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
page [2] however says that they should be kep separate. All people I've discussed this with agation_Schema#Workhttp://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Next_Generation_Schema#Work [2] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Work -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Work aliases

2011-05-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, then. I'd hate to see all Mozart's works translated to German (Le Nozze di Figaro -Die Hochzeit des Figaro!) or all Händel's works translated to English or German :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Work aliases

2011-05-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, let's not set hard rules here, in classical music, there are a lot fewer works than tracks, so that we can let voting decide. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Extends Wikipedia Relationship Type to entity Work

2011-05-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
objections? You need a +1 for this, right? +1 then. Your RFC obviously does not need my opinion any more, but +1 from me too :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Recording Aliases

2011-05-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
is implemented here and not there. And they will be right :-) But you are right, we can start thinking about it now. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] CSG: separate [mb-classical] list?

2011-05-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
?) the communication channel more than it already has been. RFC/RFV's would still go through [mb-style] of course. Alex / caller#6 Yes, good points. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
date at all, aren't ARs enough? -- 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

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/17 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/5/16 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com *Track #1* *title:* Gymnopédie No.1 * [just a copy from cover without space between No. and 1] If it's a French tracklist, N°.1 should be entered according to French spacing rules. (BTW

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
although they are superfluous in the MB database, their names are printed. In general, I'd use the what is printed rule each time we are in doubt. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] NGS CSG worklists: cadenzas s/b separate works

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
that we remove the cadenza-part from the worklists works, create the cadenzas as separate works. We should only link from the recording we know used that particular cadenza. No assuming What if the cadenza is not indicated, for example in some low-cost releases? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof

Re: [mb-style] NGS CSG worklists: cadenzas s/b separate works

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/17 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Tue, 17 May 2011 13:11:05 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: http://ngs.musicbrainz.org/edit/14460112 What if the cadenza is not indicated, for example in some low-cost releases? then we don't add a link to a cadenza

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, since recordings don't have official names AFAIK, I guess we must standardize them. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/17 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:23:33 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: Just found out that we don't have recording aliases, and I'm not sure we can tag from works. I suppose this means that for now, recordings must be standardized

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/17 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Tue, 17 May 2011 18:27:14 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/17 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:23:33 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: Just found out that we don't have

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Work aliases

2011-05-17 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
CSG Work Aliases to standardized [1] titles. Track Titles are a perfectly good place to store the non-standardized variants. Alex / caller#6 [1] or, if you prefer, CSG-ified +1 -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
manages to prove to me that having hundreds (or would it be thousands?) of Allegro, Adagio, Andante... is not a problem, indeed why not? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
recordings after creating new tracks with short names. I guess you did not have the time to think your answer, so that I have difficulties understanding all the details what you are saying (and being French, I know that each word is important ;-) ). Could you reformulate/expand? -- Frederic Da

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/16 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: use the artist name. Now what about the MB NGS web site interface? I haven't played with it enough to be have an opinion on whether it would be a problem or not. Is there a situation where a user could get a list of tracks from

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/16 caramel carame...@ymail.com 2011/5/16 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/5/16 caramel carame...@ymail.com For classical music, there is no a direct relation a song = a recording = a work. A composition (work) is split into movements/parts (sub-works). At recording

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
/CSGStandard/JSBachand I did not see anything recent, then I searched for your wikipage at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/?title=Special:Listuserslimit=500 but obviously you don't have one yet :-/ -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Passion example (Passio secundum Johannem as work title), b) and c) could be correct. Caramel, so you fond it. Obviously, your brain cells are in a better shape than mine. Could you give me the address? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS: dissertation on artists credits

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
information is required for recording names and should be written in the comments. ex. Yo-Yo Ma recorded twice the Bach cello suites. So not only the performer is needed but the recording year too. I agree. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/13 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Caramel, so you fond it. Obviously, your brain cells are in a better shape than mine. Could you give me the address? Looking at the recent changes, I'm guessing it's http://wiki.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, and I guess nobody will ever want to find back the printed title. -- 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] CSG for NGS: dissertation on artists credits

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. English (if native language is not present in the releases list) I agree with 1. and 2. but I don't understand 3. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS: dissertation on artists credits

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/13 caramel carame...@ymail.com 2011/5/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/5/13 caramel carame...@ymail.com . Rather than lazier, I'd say less standardized or closer to what is printed :-) I guess Releases should indeed be closer to what is printed. Release Groups

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS: dissertation on artists credits

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/13 caramel carame...@ymail.com 2011/5/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/5/13 caramel carame...@ymail.com 2011/5/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/5/13 caramel carame...@ymail.com . Rather than lazier, I'd say less standardized or closer to what

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/13 Leiv Hellebo leiv.hell...@gmail.com On 13. mai 2011 11:52, symphonick wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:05:52 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2011/5/13 caramel St John Passion, BWV 245: Part One: No. 1 Chorus Herr, unser Herrscher inserting a comma between the work title

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-13 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/13 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/13 Leiv Hellebo leiv.hell...@gmail.com Hey guys, I'm still lurching around, but not following things closely. Given that the work title

Re: [mb-style] NGS guidelines

2011-05-12 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
to be easy. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] NGS guidelines

2011-05-12 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/5/12 caramel carame...@ymail.com 2011/5/12 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com You prefer Latin script like me, but Russian users would probably disagree. If we follow ArtistIntent strictly, clearly Russian Works should be entered in Cyrillic. Yes with aliases names in at least

Re: [mb-style] CSG for NGS track recording names: research page

2011-05-12 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
it the other way: in an ideal world, each Work should have all relevant catalog numbers, they are all true. But this would probably have to wait until NGS2. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-11 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
all variants, while the number of Artists (and of Releases) in MB is certainly quite superior to what any brick and mortar store ever had. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-11 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
are probably right that I can't find anything really important achieved with our current sorting method which would be lost with what you are suggesting. Anyhow, I am leaving now for a few weeks, so you won't get new arguments from me on this discussion :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
line. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/4/9 Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 01:19 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I may be wrong, but I believe Artist grouping was part of the existing SortName Style, even if it was not written in the SG. It was not written because, as with many SGs, we did not think

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/4/9 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I may be wrong, but I believe Artist grouping was part of the existing SortName Style, even if it was not written in the SG. It was not written because, as with many SGs, we did not think of writing the motivations inside the SGs

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
groups? -- 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

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-08 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/4/8 Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 17:47 +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2011/4/8 Paul C. Bryan pbr...@anode.ca *Procedural* As far as I know, an objective of grouping subsets within sorted sets has not been previously raised as an objective of sorting

Re: [mb-style] Request for Documentation: CSG

2011-04-06 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
there more than about 30 posts, but I guess you could do it yourself, so this is not what you want. Could you explain more precisely how we can help you? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-04 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
the UCA (Unicode Sort Algorithm) as described @ http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Scope -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
a lexicographic sort. If we do anything else, I would expect all of this will break and then, again, what use would it be? Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Not quite: we could use aliases to do the same thing. We don't do it currently, I am not sure it would really be practical in the current

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
a distinct (even if related) artist, only make the same artist appear in more than one place. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-02 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
a simple modification could allow it. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
/musicbrainz-style ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, so at least /some/ sortnames need to be easy-on-the-eyes, don't they? Alex / caller#6 On 04/01/2011 08:16 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: This would be nice, but I fear adding a presentability constraint would limit the things we can do with sort names. So if something to improve

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
for presentation, the sortname is used to order it. Further, depending on what the intent is, the sortname need not be textually related, in whole or part, to the artist name (take the Sausage and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains examples above). -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre

Re: [mb-style] RFC 320: Revised Sortname Style

2011-04-01 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/4/1 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I'd say (in order of importance) 1 - sort (in the alphabetical sense) to enable easily locating an artist in a list of artists, 2 - keep related artists together as much as possible (ideally, Miles Davis's quintet should

Re: [mb-style] Better name for guess case?

2011-02-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
Why do you feel Guess Style could be confusing? 2011/2/26 Simon Austin chi...@auzsoft.net Could be confusing. What about Guess Corrections? - Si On 26/02/2011 10:06, Atedos wrote: I'd vote for Guess Style (shows the reference to style guidelines). 2011/2/26 Frederic Da Vitoria davito

Re: [mb-style] Better name for guess case?

2011-02-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
understanding Style Guides. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] Better name for guess case?

2011-02-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
can think of a better name we can use. One thing we do like about the current name is guess though, it is only a guess, so something which doesn't make it sound too much like it will definitely be right would be nice. So, any ideas? :) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-19 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
and it gets a lot of votes it would be added. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] CSG Standard/Bellini, pls review

2011-02-18 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, or meta-discussion, let's head to the Talk page of CSG Standard/Bellini..., or in this mb-style thread. I'm off now to listen to Casta Diva. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] Mailing list/forum dissonance

2011-02-11 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
haven't subscribed to. If the first post does not seem interesting to me, I won't subscribe to it, so that if the thread later takes an interesting direction I will miss it. If I was able to tell punBB to automatically make me subscribe to every thread, I wouldn't have any problem. -- Frederic Da

Re: [mb-style] Daytrotter Session style

2011-02-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
). The date could even be used only if there exist more than 1 session with that artist, so that in most cases the titles would remain as they currently are. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-06 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/2/6 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com (Sorry for the spam) -- 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] Unicode objections

2011-02-04 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/2/4 jacobbrett jacobbr...@hotmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Hmm, I wonder, aren't people who know the correct typographical conventions kind of geeks too? I probably am something like a computer geek, but definitely not a typography geek. I guess the typography geeks asked

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
will discourage most users? I think that anything which helps users to enter Unicode is a good idea. The ASCII columns furthermore would advertise to other services what character conversions they should implement if they use MB data and (internally) ASCII. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre

Re: [mb-style] Unicode objections

2011-02-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/2/3 Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net On 02/03/2011 09:58 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: Frankly, I don't know what the correct apostrophe or quote look like, so that I am completely unable to find them in a Unicode character table (even if I had the patience to browse such a table

Re: [mb-style] Bass vs. Bass Guitar: generic bass?

2011-01-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
da gamba/)Bass currently used? -- 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

Re: [mb-style] Bass vs. Bass Guitar: generic bass?

2011-01-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/25 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I am not even sure what Bass means here, so I'd say: How about removing the current bass and creating a Undetermined bass in other and giving it a description saying that it's a generic instrument and(...) It can't be deleted

Re: [mb-style] Bass vs. Bass Guitar: generic bass?

2011-01-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/25 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/1/25 Nikki aei...@gmail.com Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I am not even sure what Bass means here, so I'd say: How about removing the current bass and creating a Undetermined bass in other and giving it a description saying that it's

Re: [mb-style] Mailing list/forum dissonance

2011-01-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
on the forum) : find a tool which makes both kinds of users happy. This would be the perfect solution. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Mailing list/forum dissonance

2011-01-25 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/25 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2011/1/25 pbryan em...@pbryan.net [I'm just trying to reply using Nabble. Here it is! W00t!] I definitely get their points in the forum. And, having to actually subscribe to the mailing list is definitely an impediment to using Nabble—I

Re: [mb-style] Improving the style process

2011-01-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
RFx fits in that general picture and what is still missing or what will have to be checked once NGS fundamental items have been stabilized. I am speaking of style issues, not of NGS coding itself. Something like http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:kuno/Style . -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof

Re: [mb-style] Extra Title Information vs Recording comment in NGS

2011-01-12 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
and the recording. Unless I'm missing something, if it is the same recording, then this is a Release-specific title and as such should be noted in the Track title. If it is not the same recording, then... it is not the same Recording :-) -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir

Re: [mb-style] Extra Title Information vs Recording comment in NGS

2011-01-12 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
will not be willing to add information that could help identifying the recording, but it's not necessarily a title to the comment. Shouldn't there be 2 comments? Or rather, shouldn't we have a simple comment zone and an ETI zone? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April

Re: [mb-style] Peaches en Regalia vs. Peaches en regalia

2011-01-11 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. Whether the en (or in) is pig latin, french, or whatever, doesn't seem really relevant. I would cap as english. Best, - Olivier 2011/1/11 jacobbrett jacobbr...@hotmail.com: Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2011/1/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 10

Re: [mb-style] Peaches en Regalia vs. Peaches en regalia

2011-01-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
definitely bizarre to me. I Googled the title and obviously nobody knows what it means. So this could very well not be Latin at all. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] Peaches en Regalia vs. Peaches en regalia

2011-01-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/10

Re: [mb-style] Peaches en Regalia vs. Peaches en regalia

2011-01-10 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/10

Re: [mb-style] Works: second-guessing movements/numbers in classical/opera

2011-01-06 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
saying if each line is a common world work or a technical line, but I fear that on some borderline cases we will be unable to decide what value to set to it to. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] Work definition strawman 1.0

2011-01-06 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/6 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/1/6 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com Under types of Works/Aggregate: What about things like operas, as we discussed? You're

Re: [mb-style] Work definition strawman 1.0

2011-01-06 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2011/1/6 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/1/6 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/6

Re: [mb-style] Work definition strawman 1.0

2011-01-04 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. But probably in some experimental kinds of music someone composed a Work made of parts and specifically decided not to give any indication of order. So maybe adding the word usually would avoid this problem. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel

Re: [mb-style] potential AR: Held chair or something like that (was: The Held Position ARs' RFCs: Part 2: RFC-267 Manager Position, Concertmaster Position, and RFC-274 Rehearsal accompanist)

2011-01-03 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
it as useful, but a veto seems a bit extreme here. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] CSGv2 - track/recording artists

2010-12-31 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. At least this would be a good match :-) -- 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

Re: [mb-style] CSGv2 - track/recording artists

2010-12-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
is essentially, I'd replace the three occurrences of the artist is with the performer is. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] CSGv2 - track/recording artists

2010-12-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/12/30 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:17:36 +0100, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/30 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com Hi all, I'm still working on the draft for CSGv2. I've finished the text for the artist

Re: [mb-style] CSGv2 - track/recording artists

2010-12-30 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/12/30 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/12/30 symphonick symphon...@gmail.com On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:17:36 +0100, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/30 Brian

Re: [mb-style] potential AR: Held chair or something like that (was: The Held Position ARs' RFCs: Part 2: RFC-267 Manager Position, Concertmaster Position, and RFC-274 Rehearsal accompanist)

2010-12-27 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
collaborating to MB, is there? :-) I agree this may very well end up never being used to such levels, but we don't lose anything by allowing to do it. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] potential AR: Held chair or something like that (was: The Held Position ARs' RFCs: Part 2: RFC-267 Manager Position, Concertmaster Position, and RFC-274 Rehearsal accompanist)

2010-12-26 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
few. Maybe 15 is a safe medium between 4 and 30? Anyhow, the dropdown will offer the most frequently used numbers first. I don't have any argument against 15 -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org

Re: [mb-style] The Held Position ARs' RFCs: Part 2: RFC-267 Manager Position, Concertmaster Position, and RFC-274 Rehearsal accompanist

2010-12-23 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/12/22 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/12/22 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:34 AM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec

Re: [mb-style] The Held Position ARs' RFCs: Part 2: RFC-267 Manager Position, Concertmaster Position, and RFC-274 Rehearsal accompanist

2010-12-22 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
follows him, which in turn is replaced by the following and so on. But this of course does not mean we must record this level of detail. Although if someone wants to do so, why prevent him? -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof) Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http

Re: [mb-style] IRC Chat re: Works: Mon. Dec. 20 @ 7PM GMT

2010-12-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] IRC Chat re: Works: Mon. Dec. 20 @ 7PM GMT

2010-12-21 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
, or the ordering of works within such a container. Done. -- 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

Re: [mb-style] Broadening the CC AR (was RFC-298: Has Cover Art at BandCamp)

2010-12-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/12/15 Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net On 2010-12-15 8:19, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: I believe a track has a license status, which can only get less restrictive as time passes (once something has been legally put in Public Domain there is no going back) I think

Re: [mb-style] IRC Chat re: Works: Mon. Dec. 20 @ 7PM GMT

2010-12-16 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
at a different time, for most of us in North America to be able to attend? This one is scheduled for the middle of the work day for any of us in the US or Canada. (11 AM PST, 3 PM EST...) ... and please post a log here as some users (like me) never use IRC. -- Frederic Da Vitoria (davitof

Re: [mb-style] Broadening the CC AR (was RFC-298: Has Cover Art at BandCamp)

2010-12-15 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
) -- 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] Granularity of works

2010-12-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/12/9 Paul C. Bryan em...@pbryan.net On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 23:11 +0100, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: 2010/12/8 Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@gmail.com Some immediately obvious problems with what's been stated above: 1. What about spoken dialogue in theatre/opera? Various

Re: [mb-style] Granularity of works

2010-12-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
:-) -- 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] Granularity of works

2010-12-09 Thread Frederic Da Vitoria
2010/12/9 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/12/9 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Paul C. Bryan em...@pbryan.net wrote: I'm not sure

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