Re: [mb-style] RFV2: Music can be streamed for free at

, but it's not likely to be added until NGS. Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFCs that expire without a +1

arose over the +1 idea a few months ago.) Well I was asking because I'm supposed to stop proposals from just getting stuck like they currently do. Reminding people about proposals seems like a sensible idea anyway. We'll see how things go... Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFCs that expire without a +1 (was: RFC: Netherlands Clarification)

for fairly straightforward things like this, I can give them +1s if nobody else is willing to, but I wonder what should happen if someone proposes quite a big change, or when there's no consensus... Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] RFV: - 'Add Music can be streamed for free at'

be ... at url which is why I suggested the current wording. Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Netherlands vs. The Netherlands

Kingdom). Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Netherlands vs. The Netherlands

jacobbrett wrote: Ah, well I'm fine with that. Shall I make an RFC? Feel free to. :) Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Netherlands vs. The Netherlands

that clarifies which one is correct. I totally agree. There's actually a few things like that that could be clarified. Currently, there are 87 releases using just Netherlands, and 223 using The Netherlands. I've observed that Nikki (our new style leader) has been making many live bootleg edits

Re: [mb-style] RFC - AR proposal - Add Music cn be streamed for fre at

, that should mean you can send an RFV when you're ready. You might want to answer Alex's question first though. :) Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] SoundUnwound AR?

automatic links from MusicBrainz, rather than adding a new relationship for it. There was some discussion on IRC earlier about it - http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz-devel/2010/2010-08/2010-08-13.html#T19-17-52-825014 Nikki ___ MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] SoundUnwound AR?

and their data. What would happen when you follow an MBID link for data not yet related to SoundUnwound data? From what Rob's said, it seems like they want to show search results and have a message encouraging people to add missing data when there's no mbid match. Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFC - AR proposal - Add Music cn be streamed for fre at

Pete Marsh wrote: Thanks Nikki I think a whitelist would be the most sensible option. That works for me. Last FM was one of those, but now they've got rid of full track streaming on demand I don't think they'd fit either! I didn't know they'd got rid of that... do they not let

Re: [mb-style] RFC - AR proposal - Add Music cn be streamed for fre at

need into the template we use for relationship pages [1] so that we've got a page that will be part of the documentation. I can try doing that though with the answers to the above questions if you want. Nikki [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Template:Relationship

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Karaoke version relationship type

2 days passed without any objections, so this has passed. :) I've created the relationship and moved the wiki page to the right place. Thanks! Nikki Nikki wrote: Hi, A week has passed and there's no objections, so here's the RFV. It's due to expire on the 3rd of August

[mb-style] RFC: Karaoke version relationship type

think the issue Brian saw is realistically a problem (whatever a set actually is...) since this is worded the same as the cover version relationship. We've had that relationship type for years and we haven't descended into chaos. Nikki P.S. I have no idea how I'm supposed to use the template

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add social networking AR

of relationships to move the ones that we know should be under social network, and I could easily create a page which can list all of the remaining online community ones. Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add social networking AR

the relationship that's on the wiki page? If so, then sure, a +1 from me. Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add social networking AR

social network? What about Facebook groups? Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Add social networking AR

example on the online community type's wiki page is a LiveJournal page) If you change it to only propose moving the MySpace and PureVolume relationships to be under the new relationship for now, I'd give it a +1. Nikki ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Japanese catalogue numbers standardisation

that could be run to test this, or am I being pedantic? jesus2099 wanted to reply to this but isn't subscribed to the list, here's his examples: http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2010/2010-06/2010-06-11.html#T07-18-30-743819 Nikki

Re: [mb-style] Japanese catalogue numbers standardisation

. If the search doesn't find it, we should make the search smarter. Websites don't always use the same character as the cover anyway, so whether we use a standard format or copy the cover, there'll always be some which don't match exactly depending on where the information is from. Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Capitalization Standard For Transliterations

in the previous thread: http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2010-April/009527.html Georgian (Mkhedruli) doesn't have a distinction between upper and lower case, and the Roman alphabet is Latin script, but otherwise +1. Nikki

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

or wiki pages we currently use, it just gives us even more work to do. At least the part of set one got rid of the need for annotations on every disc. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

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

groups in NGS like you suggested in a previous email. If we do link them all to one place, I would probably just change the wording of the current wiki page to not forbid linking from different formats or discs, but to simply note that it's not the best use of time. Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFC: AR consistency

can see what people had to say before? Being debated before doesn't necessarily mean a consensus was ever reached. ;) Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [mb-style] Request for Debate: Two decisions on gender needed for the NGS devs: Q1: Groups and Gender

aware, it's intended to be neither of those, but instead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_identity (responding to the thread in general: I also think groups shouldn't have genders) Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Classical_Style_Guide#Other_Style_Guidelines correction

#Key_and_Tone_indication http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Talk:Classical_Style_Guide#German_minor_keys It was discussed here last year in http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2009-April/007759.html but there was never an actual RFC to change it. Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Capitalization Standard Vietnamese

made official, the Spanish capitalisation still isn't (and that's one of our most popular album languages). :P Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] RFC: SPAs cleanup (attempt 2)

into [unknown]. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Hello! Project style

to be the only person adding the DVDs. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Modify edit conditions for destructive edits

edits. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV: SPAs cleanup

the post-NGS merges until NGS is actually ready to be released. We don't know when that will be nor what will happen in the meantime. It's not like it would change anything at the moment anyway and it would have the benefit of making your RFC a bit shorter and easier to deal with. Nikki Brian

Re: [mb-style] (feat. artists) (disc#) vs. (disc#) (feat. artists)

Leiv Hellebo wrote: zout's point that FeaturingArtists should go at the end, because it's just a workaround for current database limitation is a good one, IMO. (disc n) is just a workaround for current database limitations too. Nikki

Re: [mb-style] German key signatures

as the ones used by Wikipedia. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] German key signatures

and a-Moll a few times in some of the examples. :) Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] CapitalizationStandardEnglish clarifications

rather we make it more complicated, I would still oppose having guess case lowercase them because they are predominately in the uppercase category. I would say o' on its own, O' attached to a noun. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] Music DVDs

/pipermail/musicbrainz-users/2008-May/017759.html Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

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

, disc suggests we should link each disc within each release, which you clearly didn't mean. I agree with linking only to the first disc within a release though. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

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

be the only one thinking this was a good idea :) A lot of people seem to be asking about it in IRC too. I haven't actually seen anyone say it's a bad idea. Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFV: OnlineCommunityRelationshipType

LiveJournal URLs in the database. We had far more MySpace ones before we added the MySpace relationship. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV: OnlineCommunityRelationshipType

always going to be cases where we fail to make the distinction between two things, but if we create new types for every single one, it would just be a big confusing mess. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again! (now on test.m

into a separate group in the artist discog list? Like I said, it will become part of mo's release attribute restructuring. I don't know when that will be polished and implemented, but I can't see why it won't be. How about Alternate text? --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] Re: RFC: Transliterations/translations, again

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:42:11PM -0700, Nathan Noble wrote: (probably there's a lesson to be learned, but I can't figure out what). Don't make bets unless you've rigged the outcome? :D --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again!

automatically. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again!

' type to his attribute restructuring anyway, that's taken care of too. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Unicode tagging issues?

Picard to write Latin1 tags, but I'm sure it doesn't leave people with usable metadata for Chinese releases. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again!

level, but with no current support, people have done the only thing they feel they can. ...didn't you say the tagger users pay the bills? Rules that follow from bad practices are bad rules. Maybe so, but rules that go completely against current practise will be hard to enforce. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again!

this moving along as the idea has been being tossed around for over a year. The exact naming of the attribute doesn't need to be decided before we implement the relationship, so I would appreciate it if we can discuss that further when we get to it. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again!

translations if the audio is still the same. If the audio is different, the difference between the releases is no longer just the track listing. :) --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

[mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again!

ASCII versions by the tagger itelf then. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

of choosing the one that the majority of people don't use, other than that it won't hurt panda's eyes. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

thought if it is? PS: Perhaps using TaggerScript, capitalized titles could be simplified? If followed by L', Le or La, decapitalize the 2nd [and 3rd ]word? What about the 4th and 5th words? Are they ever capitalised? How do you know that those words won't be names? --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

that have CAPS every second track on a release. The problem appears to be that there is no standard. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

big difference, German just uses normal sentence capitalisation, it just so happens that nouns are always capitalised, title or not. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

of things to consider when nearly all the others are simply is this a name? if yes, capitalise it or is this a word from a short list of joining words? if yes, lowercase it. Nikki, sorry, you have extreme knowledge on the Japanese artists, many of us don't. In my opinion your instance here

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

seeing any new add release edits where the capitalisation was correct by our current guidelines -- the vast majority seem to be either sentence case or English-style most/every word capitalised. Also, because of its complexity, we can't develop a guess case mode for it. --Nikki, who isn't a native

Re: [mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:23:39AM +0200, Thomas Tholén wrote: B) What's a proper noun? Proper nouns are things like names of people and places. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] SeriesNumberStyle - useage for more than one named part/volume in the same track/release

about 12,000 following the current part number style (but I don't know how many of these were added differently and then changed) and 4,000 with part in brackets. --Nikki [1] e.g. Most people expect the artist to contain the featuring artists. Trying to keep everything in the right place has been

Re: [mb-style] new artist type colaboration

already, those dreaded aliases! ;) I do like the idea though. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

names which wouldn't work in either tagger. Of course, in this situation, how does it affect tagging? Well, not at all if you don't mind titles not being identical. If you do, it's a simple change away. It's a change which anyone can do, much like your example about limited edition. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFV: RenamedRelationshipType

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:05:58AM -0400, Aaron Cooper wrote: This implies two different entities: the predecessor and the successor. If a band simply changes its name, I think it is still one entity. If it's one entity, why should it be listed under two artists? --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFV: RenamedRelationshipType

they're not used for anything other than searching, but why will anyone ever want to code better stuff for something we never use? --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

in assumptions we make, i.e. an unlabelled track on a live release is a live version, but an unlabelled track on a single release is an album version. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFV: RenamedRelationshipType

to artist of type 'Group' only. That sounds better. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

is not a stable release yet (according to the wiki page...), so I can't imagine 0.8 being here in under a month. Of course, maybe Lukáš has stuff hidden up his sleeve. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] Net Releases

be a UK release.' Is telling the homebase of the label matters. It tells of the distribution matter too. I have CDs produced in the EU distributed in the UK by a UK label. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] (album version)

.) that you can't really say any particular version is the default. So why should album version be assumed to be the default version for singles and not live albums? --Nikki P.S. Won't we have to go back and add (album version) back to all the singles once we have NGS

Re: [mb-style] Net Releases

, a release on Foo Records UK [...] will likely be a UK release.' But that doesn't say The label should be used, it merely says that between label and 'made in', the label's country is more likely to have been the release country. I don't think anyone is going to disagree with that. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

(album version), Some Kind of Monster (album version), Frantic (album version), St. Anger (live). Wouldn't that seem crazy? If that's what they put on the cover, then why is it crazy? I don't think it's ridiculous to have contextual information. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

, should Some Title and Some Title (album version) not be allowed when Some Title and Some Title (live) are, when in both cases both tracks are identical? --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] Net Releases

on those which were purely net releases. iTunes has a clearly defined release area anyway, it won't let you buy songs without living in the right country. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] (album version)

on the cover. We have plenty of cases where we simply don't have the flexibility in Picard for everyone to be satisfied, so it's not a very good argument. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

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

. We currently have thousands of transliterations which are lacking a relationship because a handful of examples (which, in some cases, are just theoretical) are tricky to handle. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

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

have 4 distinct albums (plus 1 transliteration) for them anyway, so all the possible transliterations and translations are just some sort of straw man or something. --Nikki 1 http://musicbrainz.org/artist/db695488-b587-4349-8aa1-da3ab8a5f0ff.html

Re: [mb-style] Net Releases

to be. What about all the ones which don't say? --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

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

the need for hundreds of manual merges. I also agree with Gecks (regarding 'official' or 'unofficial') and Don (regarding being able to avoid clusters). Does anyone disagree with adding it? --Nikki 1 http://musicbrainz.org/artist/692e367d-2846-442d-b13d-1177c3681c65.html 2 http://musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] missing accents on Jarre's songs

working on. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] missing accents on Jarre's songs

not positive, but it is quite plausible. Well, everyone I know would say that English title capitalisation is first letter uppercase (including words like 'the', 'of', etc.) and that's what I generally use outside of MusicBrainz. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] missing accents on Jarre's songs

I've seen tend to omit the accents on capital letters. To me, adding missing accents to capital letters on French albums is just as sensible as changing the capitalisation if the cover uses all capitals. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Off topic on mb-style (Was: missing accents on Jarre's songs)

to technical reasons? --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV #2: Amazon Relationship Type

to randomly vanish these days. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Latin style guidelines

to use something else when there's no official body governing Latin saying otherwise. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Questions about 'quotation marks' and %-sign

me editing a lot in the first place, now there's nothing left that's the wrong character set, just a bunch of tracks with nothing but punctuation in their names. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] Release imports

the date it became available in a particular shop. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Questions about 'quotation marks' and %-sign

. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Release imports

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 01:25:09AM +0200, derGraph wrote: However, the page suggest it's an official import. Er, what exactly is an official import? --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

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

we should have a warning saying that customer images won't be displayed. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] ArtistAlias and PerformanceNameStyle conflict / What makes an Alias?

a translation of the original german name). In all the cases I'm aware of, they're aliases. For example, Puffy (known as Puffy AmiYumi in America), Suede (known as The London Suede in America), t.A.T.u. (originally known as Тату in Russia) and, of course, Yazoo (known as Yaz in America). --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] SG5...again (*ducks*)

, the terms primary and secondary are completely subjective. I think, really, that both of you are right. There's no way to draw a definite line between A B and A feat. B and from the evidence given, I'd say this one falls in the grey area between the two. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] SG5...again (*ducks*)

if that weren't a problem. I'd also like a way of searching without getting a page full of collaborations but I guess I'm out of luck there. Technically it would be possible if we had a collaboration type as well as person and group, but the Lucene search still can't send you to a direct match. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] SG5...again (*ducks*)

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 07:45:39PM +0100, Chris Bransden wrote: such that it makes that AR 'special' which entails that it is highlighted on the album page The next server release already shows track relationships on the album page. --Nikki

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Middle names and performance names

(e.g. Katie Melua's Georgian name is ქეთევან მელუა but she now lives and releases music in the UK). Ones which aren't because of countries (e.g. Enya and all those other Irish names) I'm not so sure about. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Middle names and performance names

it. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

something we really need tagger script for. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

between the lines though. Maybe people should start saying what they mean in the first place. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

idea of which list is for which discussions. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Lots of fan-sites

is checking that the pages are still there and giving the user too many links is no better than giving them a link to Google. I'm not really sure how to improve the wording though. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] language of descriptions for untitled tracks

-62b33eda4bfa.html --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] language of descriptions for untitled tracks

read the names of. I quite like a song [1] on Wang Xin Ling's album 'Honey', but I currently refer to it as blue squiggle squiggle splodge. --Nikki 1. http://musicbrainz.org/track/b65a7195-ef1b-4d72-bbd3-c49b764b7f72.html ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing

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