Re: [mb-style] [silence]/[data track] recordings in NGS

2011-03-23 Thread Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)
2011/3/23 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Maurits Meulenbelt maurits.meulenb...@gmail.com wrote: Don't all silent tracks on a release have an artistic purpose? Otherwise I don't think they would be on the release. I'd keep them separate. --

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Bandleader Position Relationship Type

2011-03-14 Thread Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)
BrianFreud decided to revert all edits on this proposal[1] because this proposal has an active champion, and was assumed without my permission. That's not the way to go. Jan (zout) [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Bandleader_Position_Relationship_Type_Proposal On 11 March 2011 23:37,

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

2011-03-10 Thread Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)
Hi, A ticket has been filed regarding extra fields for ETI: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-1608 Jan (zout) On 13 January 2011 21:25, ChurruKa churr...@hangar18.cc wrote: (The feature req. I sent was about subtitles, but I think the principle is the same) 2011/1/13 ChurruKa

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

2011-03-03 Thread Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)
)[3]. Might be what 'both sides' can live with. Regards, Jan van Thiel [2] http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/developer-forum/forum-to-mailing_list_integration/ [3] http://mail2forum.com/ ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

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

2011-03-03 Thread Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)
and/or tracks that use them? Regards, Jan van Thiel ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

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

2011-03-03 Thread Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)
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? :) What about Guess Style Format? Or would that be too long? Regards, Jan van Thiel

[mb-style] Go - The Very Best of Moby

2010-07-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
be allowed. Same rationale has been used on http://musicbrainz.org/release/ade21fff-dba2-438f-8e31-5325c4afb05f.html . What do you think? Regards, Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFC (4th try): add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2010-03-01 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 28 February 2010 17:19, Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Jan van Thiel z...@musicbrainz.org wrote: On 27 February 2010 17:02, Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Jan van Thiel z

Re: [mb-style] RFC (4th try): add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2010-02-28 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 27 February 2010 17:02, Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Jan van Thiel z...@musicbrainz.org wrote: This is a fourth RFC, rephrased compared to the third RFC. On the JIRA bug tracker this RFC is located at [4]. -- I'd like

[mb-style] RFC (4th try): add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2010-02-27 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, This is a fourth RFC, rephrased compared to the third RFC. On the JIRA bug tracker this RFC is located at [4]. -- I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the Lyricist Relationship Type[1]. The phrase for this attribute could read This attribute describes if the lyrics are a

Re: [mb-style] RFV: add DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) as media format

2009-08-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
No-one replied to this, so it has been accepted! Jan 2009/8/4 Jan van Thiel z...@musicbrainz.org Hi, I'd like to see DCC (Digital Compact Cassette)[1] being added as media format. We already have MiniDisc, which is similar. The name in the format list can be DCC. The RFC was posted

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC: Soundtrack's track title style

2009-08-11 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/8/11 Gioele gio...@svario.it: right now there are no clear guidelines on how to deal with compilations that combine tracks from more than one soundtrack. The current trend is to name these tracks using the Movie name: Track name template. I like this template and I'd like to put forward

[mb-style] RFV: add DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) as media format

2009-08-04 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, I'd like to see DCC (Digital Compact Cassette)[1] being added as media format. We already have MiniDisc, which is similar. The name in the format list can be DCC. The RFC was posted on April 25th and no-one objected:

Re: [mb-style] RFV: PartNumberStyle (second attempt)

2009-07-21 Thread Jan van Thiel
than one part in the title, it's just been kept as is, no fixing.) Brian On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Jan van Thiel z...@musicbrainz.org wrote: I want to see real-life MB examples of all cases presented in the draft. Jan 2009/7/20 Chris B ch...@whenironsattack.com: i still think

Re: [mb-style] RFV: PartNumberStyle (second attempt)

2009-07-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
I want to see real-life MB examples of all cases presented in the draft. Jan 2009/7/20 Chris B ch...@whenironsattack.com: i still think that dropping the various spacing rules and just having either X-Y or X to Y is better. it's consistent, looks more natural, and these language issues with

Re: [mb-style] DiscogsRelationshipType and pending Discogs releases

2009-07-18 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/7/16 meindu...@nurfuerspam.de: I'd like to re-open the discussion here whether this sentence shall be removed from the guideline or not. +1 for removal. Jan ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Cataloguer Relationship Type

2009-05-02 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/5/2 Aurélien Mino a.m...@free.fr: Does that means that a non-artist person can be added in the database just for this relationship? We already have photography etc.? Jan ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

[mb-style] RFC: add DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) as media format

2009-04-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, I'd like to see DCC (Digital Compact Cassette)[1] being added as media format. We already have MiniDisc, which is similar. The name in the format list can be DCC. Jan [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette ___

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) as media format

2009-04-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/4/25 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com: I am all for adding support for more, and more detailed, formats.  However, I suggest that, as with the already-accepted Blu-ray, HD-DVD, and DVD-Audio formats, this, and the rest of

Re: [mb-style] PartNumberStyle - Foo, Parts 1-3 vs Foo, Parts 1 - 3

2009-04-24 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/4/24 Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:38:17PM -0400, Brian Schweitzer wrote: Please, stop the condesension.  Example != guideline.  There is no need, nor reason, to revert.  The example, as I have pointed out many times now, is just as correct, per the current

Re: [mb-style] PartNumberStyle - Foo, Parts 1-3 vs Foo, Parts 1 - 3

2009-04-23 Thread Jan van Thiel
, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com wrote: And can you show where any of these examples should contain spaces in the part numbering to get more clarity? ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] PartNumberStyle - Foo, Parts 1-3 vs Foo, Parts 1 - 3

2009-04-21 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/4/21 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com: Just trying any number greater than 12, at random, I see several perfectly valid Part 20 results right now: http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=%22Part+20%22type=tracklimit=25handlearguments=1 As for 1a and 1-1,

Re: [mb-style] PartNumberStyle - Foo, Parts 1-3 vs Foo, Parts 1 - 3

2009-04-21 Thread Jan van Thiel
And can you show where any of these examples should contain spaces in the part numbering to get more clarity? 2009/4/21 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/21 Brian Schweitzer brian.brianschweit

Re: [mb-style] PartNumberStyle - Foo, Parts 1-3 vs Foo, Parts 1 - 3

2009-04-19 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/4/18 Bogdan Butnaru bogd...@gmail.com: By the way, this disambiguates numbering schemes with sub-parts, e.g. “Parts 1-3–3-7”, or “Parts twenty-two–seventy-nine”. On the other hand, I see no reason why we wouldn't simply have as a rule “spell things out whenever the dash would be

Re: [mb-style] PartNumberStyle - Foo, Parts 1-3 vs Foo, Parts 1 - 3

2009-04-17 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/4/16 Aaron Cooper coope...@gmail.com: My vote is for a)... no extra spaces. +1 Jan ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC (3rd try): add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-04-16 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, I propose something, people object, it is amended to add 'significantly altered', people object to the 'significantly altered' part. I don't know what should be done now. Drop this proposal? Jan ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Revise SortNameStyle to establish single delimiter for multiple artists

2009-04-15 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/4/14 Paul C. Bryan em...@pbryan.net: Proposal: Change item #5 in the SortNameSytle to read as follows: If an ArtistName consists of two or more collaborating artists, each individual name is sorted separately according to the rules below. The separator (e.g. and, with, vs., y, et, comma,

[mb-style] RFC (3rd try): add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-04-14 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, This is a third RFC, somewhat altered. It specifically excludes 'based on'/'adaption' lyrics and is rephrased from the second RFC. -- I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the LyricistRelationshipType[1]. The phrase for this attribute could read This attribute describes if

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-03-28 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/3/27 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/3/27 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com 2009/3/27 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/3/27 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com Parody translations (which should be link with ParodyRelationshipAttribute[2

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-03-28 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/3/27 SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com: What I could imagine to work would be a check box (like for the cover relationship), which for the lyricistAR allows to pick – original (= wrote the lyrics of the original version) – translated (= wrote the lyrics of the translated/adapted version in

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-03-27 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-03-27 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/3/27 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/3/27 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com Parody translations (which should be link with ParodyRelationshipAttribute[2] of the CoverRelationshipType[3]) and lyrics that are based on lyrics in another language that have altered location

Re: [mb-style] Feat. on non-english releases

2009-03-03 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/3/2 Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:30:09PM +0100, Jan van Thiel wrote: We can only get rid of feat. in titles if there is an AR artist X features on release/track Y. Otherwise the information that an artist is explicitly credited as featuring artist will be lost

Re: [mb-style] Feat. on non-english releases

2009-03-02 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/3/2 Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:54:51AM +0100, Maurits Meulenbelt wrote: In my opinion the feat. is a leftover form the bad old days when there were no AR's. Personally I only enter them when they're mentioned this way on the case, and if I do, I follow the case

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-01-14 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-01-14 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/1/14 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/1/14 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com OK, this sounds like something different than a 'simple' translation. But how where do we draw the line? What is a simple translation and what is adapted/transposed? As usual, there is no clear

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to CoverRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
Please regard the attachment, my bad. 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com: Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the CoverRelationshipType[1]. The phrase for this attribute could read This attribute indicates a cover with the lyrics in a different language than

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to CoverRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
*dis*regard ;) 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com: Please regard the attachment, my bad. 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com: Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the CoverRelationshipType[1]. The phrase for this attribute could read This attribute

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to CoverRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com: *dis*regard ;) 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com: Please regard the attachment, my bad. 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com: Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the CoverRelationshipType[1]. The phrase

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to CoverRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
AM, Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com wrote: And to raise the spam level even more: original message wasn't sent because the attachment I accidentally attached was too big. Original message: -- Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the CoverRelationshipType[1

[mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the LyricistRelationshipType[1]. The phrase for this attribute could read This attribute describes if the lyrics are a translation of the same work in another language. This should only be used for lyrics that are really translations (e.g.

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to CoverRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com wrote: And to raise the spam level even more: original message wasn't sent because the attachment I accidentally attached was too big. Original message: -- Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added

Re: [mb-style] RFC: add attribute 'translated' to LyricistRelationshipType

2009-01-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com 2009/1/13 Jan van Thiel janvanth...@gmail.com Hi, I'd like to see attribute 'translated' added to the LyricistRelationshipType[1

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Creating a non-code AR to grou p releases into “cultural identifiers” for fu ture importing.

2008-10-09 Thread Jan van Thiel
Why is this needed at all? 'Earliest release of' and 'Remaster of' ARs can be taken advantage of right now if you write some software. This new AR will be attached to exactly the same releases as these two ARs. Jan (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Creating a non-code AR to grou p releases into “cultural identifiers” for fu ture importing.

2008-10-09 Thread Jan van Thiel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9-Oct-08, at 3:11 PM, Jan van Thiel wrote: Why is this needed at all? 'Earliest release of' and 'Remaster of' ARs can be taken advantage of right now if you write some software. This new AR will be attached to exactly the same releases as these two ARs. Jan (zout

Re: [mb-style] artist A presents artist B

2008-10-08 Thread Jan van Thiel
2008/10/8 Jim DeLaHunt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Toni Panadès wrote: LSS it's a group where the main artist is Dennis White (AKA Static Revenger), and in some places (and on the cover of the album) appears as Static Revenger presents Love Song Surprise What you think? I

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Part of series relationship

2008-09-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
Can you give some examples of track series? Jan (zout) 2008/9/24 Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED]: it might already be your intention, could we use this AR to link both releases and tracks? some track 'series' are spread across different releases, so it would be useful to link those i think (and to

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Part of series relationship

2008-09-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
2008/9/25 Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/9/25 Jan van Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can you give some examples of track series? Jan (zout) sure - on the same release: http://musicbrainz.org/release/eddc2843-d3dd-48ba-b1c9-2ad509570aaa.html across different releases (track 4 and 2

Re: [mb-style] album version, original mix, etc.

2008-08-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
2008/8/18 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I believe that unique tracks should have unique track names across all releases. This seems to be essential for distinguishability of tracks by their track names, effectively describing any differences in sound (ie unique tracks) with unique, specific track

Re: [mb-style] [mb-users] MediaWiki (was: Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader)

2008-08-05 Thread Jan van Thiel
2008/8/5 Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: part of the previous discussion was migrating the wiki to either MoinMoin 1.6 or MediaWiki. A MediaWiki instance is now set up on http://mediawiki.musicbrainz.org/ with the latest version of our current wiki (no history). Can you please play with it,

Re: [mb-style] [mb-users] MediaWiki (was: Looking for a new [Documentation|Style] leader)

2008-08-05 Thread Jan van Thiel
2008/8/5 Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dňa Ut, 2008-08-05 o 14:54 +0200, Jan van Thiel napísal: 2008/8/5 Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: part of the previous discussion was migrating the wiki to either MoinMoin 1.6 or MediaWiki. A MediaWiki instance is now set up on http

Re: [mb-style] multi-disc releases / box sets.

2008-07-16 Thread Jan van Thiel
2008/6/26 Kuno Woudt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to have an AR to group multiple discs of a single releases. This would be intended as a temporary solution until we get proper release and boxset support with NGS. Considering this, not all that much time should be wasted on it. In it's

Re: [mb-style] RFC: ReleaseTitle

2007-11-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
On Oct 30, 2007 9:36 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/30, Kuno Woudt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0200, Jan van Thiel wrote: I started the wiki page for ReleaseTitle almost 2 years ago. Guess it's time to make it official ;) I wasn't

Re: [mb-style] At which level do we enter AR's

2007-11-04 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 11/3/07, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm adding an AR to a track, it specifically applies to that track. If I'm adding an AR to a release, theoretically it applies to every track, but I will put money on the fact that this isn't actually true for each and every single

[mb-style] RFC: ReleaseTitle

2007-10-27 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, I started the wiki page for ReleaseTitle almost 2 years ago. Guess it's time to make it official ;) I hereby request http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle to contain the official definition of a release titles and the order of its parts. Jan (zout)

Re: [mb-style] Albums compiled by artists

2007-03-05 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 3/5/07, Rod Begbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a few series of compilation discs available where an artist or group compiles songs they like or were influenced by. Examples include: [...] Currently, these discs are sometimes filed under the compiling artist, and sometimes under

Re: [mb-style] Request for Clarification: positioning of disc numbers

2007-02-19 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 10/19/06, Don Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:10:24 +0200, David Gibson wrote: As far as I can tell, the current style guideline information doesn't have any examples covering the intersection of DiscNumberStyle and ClassicalStyleGuide. Which order should the

Re: RFC: BonusDisc ammendment (was: Re: [mb-style] x (disc 1) x(disc 2), vs x x (bonus disc) / version info for special releases)

2006-09-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 9/20/06, Don Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me it looks like there is a difference in what people understand under album. In the past, MusicBrainz has had a very formal definition of an album. It is my impression that Chris and Aaron are bringing in a definition which is much more

Re: [mb-style] Rejigging release attributes (was Re: RFC: BonusDisc ammendment...)

2006-09-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 9/20/06, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Imagine the possibilities. You could totally have a live spoken word ep, performance poetry perhaps. Or an audiobook compilation album (say, excerpts from a series, or a collection of HG Wells short stories for instance, that have been

Re: [mb-style] English capitalization

2006-09-02 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 9/2/06, Mangled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/9/2, Bogdan Butnaru [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since we're already discussing English capitalization, can we please also discuss these two other special cases: 1) Script-o-Rama, Ping-o-Matic: I always see these with the 'O' capitalized, but it seems

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Torrents as Releases (Was: Billboard's topwhatever)

2006-08-01 Thread Jan van Thiel
, a pirate release. And I don't think we should add these. Whether they're released as torrents or CDs. -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz

[mb-style] new official guideline: SplitReleaseTitleStyle

2006-07-22 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, After 10 days no veto was issued on SplitReleaseTitleStyle. Therefore, I've made it official[1][2]. [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SplitReleaseTitleStyle [2] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/RecentStyleChanges -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Dealing with translations and transliterations

2006-07-18 Thread Jan van Thiel
'translation'. If you want an AR to link '99 Red Balloons' to ''99 Luftballons' this probably is best somehow placed in the 'cover of' AR branch. I suggest you start another thread on this, as this only RFV only deals with the transl(iter)ation of titles, not lyrics. -- Jan van Thiel (zout

Re: [mb-style] RFV: SplitReleaseTitleStyle

2006-07-14 Thread Jan van Thiel
artist). This should probably appear as First half title / Second part title. I've added this to the guideline at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SplitReleaseTitleStyle . -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: New Artist Type: Project

2006-07-07 Thread Jan van Thiel
how people can work together on making music. This is a new approach to the Artist Type. We can go there, but we need to make sure we cover all cases before implementing this. -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Re: split artist release title

2006-07-04 Thread Jan van Thiel
) name for something that doesn't already have one. True. I should've said something like Various Artists Compilation. Maybe a better argument: if only the artist names are mentioned on the cover, it seems strange to me to add something like 'Split' to the title. Citerar Jan van Thiel [EMAIL

Re: [mb-style] Re: split artist release title

2006-07-04 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 7/4/06, Don Redman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:07:41 +0200, Jan van Thiel wrote: I've created http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SplitReleaseTitleStyle and like to have comments. Thanks! I think that page should state very clearly that the artist should be Various Artists

[mb-style] RFV: IMDbRelationshipStyle

2006-06-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, I hereby request IMDbRelationshipStyle[1] to be made official. The content of this guideline is already widely applied. If you strongly oppose it, please post a veto. [1]: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/IMDbRelationshipStyle -- Jan van Thiel (zout

Re: [mb-style] RFV: IMDbRelationshipStyle

2006-06-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 6/20/06, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why link only to the earliest release? The listed rationale is Reducing duplicated content/effort. -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV: IMDbRelationshipStyle

2006-06-20 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 6/20/06, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/06, Jan van Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/20/06, Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why link only to the earliest release? The listed rationale is Reducing duplicated content/effort. Yep, I read that. But why? :) From

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

2006-06-19 Thread Jan van Thiel
' is completely arbitrarily and must stop. If I had anything to say. -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] new official guideline: SortNameStyle

2006-06-19 Thread Jan van Thiel
Hi, The SortNameStyle has been made official. This guideline can be found at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SortNameStyle . -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

2006-06-19 Thread Jan van Thiel
ambiguous. - SameTrackRelationshipType is the AR that can state that two tracks have the same content; no need to rename them all to the same name. -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

2006-06-18 Thread Jan van Thiel
will be if not impossible, take lots and lots and lots of work to get back. Can't we just nuke the stupid (album version) rule once and for all? Please? What they said. Please! -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Decision and clarification of imdb format

2006-06-13 Thread Jan van Thiel
that we have anything to decide there. Agreed. teleGUISE, I think it's safe to say you can change these wiki pages accordingly. It seems the server software already uses this convention. -- Jan van Thiel (zout) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Amazon Relationship Type

2006-05-27 Thread Jan van Thiel
relationship page which disallows to add links to this kind of custom ASINs. I agree with this. I also think we need to have an actual link to the page, not a 1x1 pixel link. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] omitting major?

2006-05-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 5/25/06, Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people (not only MB users) omit major, and specify only minor. The CSG recommends writing major/minor in lower case, but it doesn't say if major can be omitted. Personally, I'd prefer always specifying it (because there is also the

Re: [mb-style] song / [untitled] vs. non-album tracks

2006-05-16 Thread Jan van Thiel
camp at that time, and still am) To stay on topic: I agree with you both that it's not a good idea to let hidden tracks also be entered as non-album tracks. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] song / [untitled] vs. non-album tracks

2006-05-16 Thread Jan van Thiel
Song is followed by a long silence and then by Funny Little Song, the correct track title would be Some Long Song / Funny Little Song. Correct? Yes, that's how it is in the guidelines at the moment. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] ideas on improving Style Council decissions

2006-04-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
another way to deal with style issues. I can hardly keep up with the way to have an issue discussed as it is. And I don't consider myself a newbie with respect to style guideline proposals. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] ideas on improving Style Council decissions

2006-04-25 Thread Jan van Thiel
comprehension of a process; they're only usefull if all transitions are clearly defined. We seem to have a process defined at the moment; let's keep it at that. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] Bootleg locations

2006-04-24 Thread Jan van Thiel
. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Bootleg locations

2006-04-23 Thread Jan van Thiel
misuse [7]. Holland is definitely wrong. I usually use 'The Netherlands' and probably am responsible for renaming most titles ;) I think 'The' should be included, to indicate it's plural and because I like it better. zout (from the Netherlands) -- Jan van Thiel

Re: [mb-style] Contextual information in track title

2006-04-10 Thread Jan van Thiel
if it were used to differentiate between two tracks of the same title on the same album). DonRedman Yes, I agree with Don. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman

Re: [mb-style] Evil overlord speaks on DVDs (was: WTF DVD?)

2006-04-09 Thread Jan van Thiel
be able to retrieve the dvds entered! I think it's not that hard for a person with database access to run a query the lists albums that have the word 'dvd' in their annotations. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-03 Thread Jan van Thiel
. :) -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] BoxSetNameStyle

2006-03-06 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 3/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Enter every release as a different entry in the database [...] I fully agree with Stefan here. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-02 Thread Jan van Thiel
it, it must me added. Period. Whether javascript is needed or not. That's somebody else's problem, so to say. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-14 Thread Jan van Thiel
, but what about video DVD rips and the like? -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] State of the Style Secretary

2006-02-08 Thread Jan van Thiel
= 0 to 10) { print i } [argument: it's more flexible!] c) i=0; do { print i; i = i + 1 } until ( i 10 ) ... Well, a is the only correct solution :) Or there are not correct solutions if you define 'from 1 to 10' in another way ;) -- Jan van Thiel

Re: [mb-style] PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass the goal of MB

2006-01-31 Thread Jan van Thiel
tracks have to be added later? What DVD content should be added, what not? Do we add non-musical artists? Etc. These questions, and probably a lot more, have to be addressed? GoodWikiName anyone? ;) -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass the goal of MB

2006-01-30 Thread Jan van Thiel
Cage, who both are in the database. Without this person, there is no way to link the two. But in general, I think adding non-musicians is not the way to go. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] SG5 Border cases: Album artist an split release

2006-01-17 Thread Jan van Thiel
. -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Re: [mb-users] Remix question

2006-01-17 Thread Jan van Thiel
of the Artist page. Thanks. But as we're a *community*, please help out with creating/improving/updating these pages! -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: AlbumTitle proposal [WAS: Re: Title styles revised (was: [mb-style] redundant ExtraTitleInformation)]

2006-01-16 Thread Jan van Thiel
at all? It's treated as a 'regular' VA artist album, with albumartistname and albumartistsortname as variables to be used to tag music. But we're getting off-topic here ;) -- Jan van Thiel ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Release Countries

2006-01-16 Thread Jan van Thiel
. If an album is released in even just six or seven of the EU nations, think how much effort you'll have to go to to fix an incorrect date. Not to mention the fact that the set of countries varies/gets bigger over time... So we'd have to define different 'versions' of the EU. -- Jan van Thiel

Re: [mb-style] Updating FeeturingArtistStyle

2006-01-10 Thread Jan van Thiel
On 1/10/06, Tarragon M. Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, in film credits for story, screenplay, etc., indicates a closer collaboration than and; in screenplays, for example, two authors joined with collaborated on the script, while two authors joined with and wrote the script at