Re: [mb-style] Chinese releases

2013-02-26 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
. Since I don't use transliterated releases myself, I don't have a strong opinion on what the guideline says on this point. -- Philip Jägenstedt I'm relatively new to the Chinese language, so my two cents may not be worth much, but I'd normally group hanzi together as long as they collectively

Re: [mb-style] Chinese releases

2013-02-18 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
where it's tricky to judge what is a word. Since I don't use transliterated releases myself, I don't have a strong opinion on what the guideline says on this point. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-97: Move medley to an attribute of recording of v2

2012-08-01 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Calvin

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-97: Move medley to an attribute of recording of v2

2012-07-31 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 21:52 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-97: Move medley to an attribute of performance of

2012-07-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
as an extra attribute on the recoding-work recording of AR? If so, shouldn't we just add an attribute to is a {partial} {live} {instrumental} {cover} recording of to arrive at is a {partial} {live} {instrumental} {cover} {medley} recording of? -- Philip Jägenstedt

[mb-style] RFC STYLE-97: Move medley to an attribute of recording of v2

2012-07-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
/recording/6bda9f82-32f7-448d-bf89-044816e30653 -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-97: Move medley to an attribute of recording of v2

2012-07-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 07/30/2012 02:52 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Performance_Relationship_Type I used the definition from the previous thread. The link phrases would just have medley added, e.g

Re: [mb-style] RFCish: Abandon Latin script sort names for Chinese artists

2012-07-25 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
name? The way I see is this happening is a human-supervised bot to reset the sort names of all Chinese artists while at the same time adding Latin-script aliases. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFCish: Abandon Latin script sort names for Chinese artists

2012-07-23 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 09:07 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 15:07 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: http

Re: [mb-style] RFCish: Abandon Latin script sort names for Chinese artists

2012-07-21 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Calvin Walton calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 15:07 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Artist/Sort_Name says: All artist sort names should be in Latin script. If the artist's name is normally written using

[mb-style] RFCish: Abandon Latin script sort names for Chinese artists

2012-07-20 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
to abandon Latin script sort names? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Sampling at the composition/work level

2012-07-02 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:16 AM, practik kronp...@yahoo.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:56 PM, monxton wrote: In any case, a work-work relationship gives more information, because it tells you which of Beethoven's works is quoted. This is much more useful than

Re: [mb-style] Sampling at the composition/work level

2012-07-01 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
would someone with a clue about classical phrase the relationship between two such works? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Series support discussion

2012-07-01 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] Sampling at the composition/work level

2012-06-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
/ed1600ee-46f0-4e5d-adc1-03341d515287 The version of work-work AR seems inappropriate, so what to do? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] What to do with High Quality?

2012-06-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
of that, since making it harder to edit was never my main objective. I would be fine with 3. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Work type documentation

2012-06-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
unsatisfactory. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Work type documentation

2012-06-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
don't think that information really fits in work type. I think a [No lyrics] options is a good idea, I've filed http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-4921 to request that. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style/Language/Swedish

2012-06-19 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:48 PM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/10 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style/Language/Swedish

2012-06-02 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Lauri Watts krazyk...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:10 PM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Style/Language/Swedish http

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style/Language/Swedish

2012-06-02 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
of e.g. people or places. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style/Language/Swedish

2012-06-02 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, symphonick symphon...@gmail.com wrote: Updated the proposal. Thanks for all suggestions

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style/Language/Swedish

2012-06-01 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
. A matching English section could be: Capitalize the first word of a sentence and proper nouns. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] Merging Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 (again)

2012-05-28 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
... -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] Merging Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 (again)

2012-05-27 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
in different countries. (Should it turn out that the release differs physically between countries then the issue is moot.) -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman

Re: [mb-style] Merging Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 (again)

2012-05-27 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 27 May 2012 19:55, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 27 May 2012 19:12, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: Andii disagreed, so I'd like to have a proper vote in http://musicbrainz.org/edit

Re: [mb-style] Merging Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 (again)

2012-05-27 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 27 May 2012 20:27, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 27 May 2012 19:55, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-05-17 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
WHEN THERE IS INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN SEVERAL RELEASES/EDITIONS/VERSIONS/ETC. » This sounds reasonable to me, and easy to apply too (follow cover unless covers disagree). I could live with that as well. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-05-17 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, jesus2099

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-05-14 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
this compromise ? (3) Which compromise is it you want to apply? You didn't approve of the one I suggested and I'm not aware of any other. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC2-320: Revised Sort Name Style - identifying the problems that need fixing

2012-05-13 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Pants 團契遊樂園 Playground 動力火車 Power Station 果味VC Super VC 超级市场 Supermarket 女子十二乐坊 Twelve Girls Band I image that any non-Latin script would have the same problems, at least those with multiple romanization systems or where the romanization does not produce the correct order anyway. -- Philip

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC2-320: Revised Sort Name Style - identifying the problems that need fixing

2012-05-13 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:28 PM, caller#6 meatbyproduct-musicbra...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, as discussed recently[1

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC2-320: Revised Sort Name Style - identifying the problems that need fixing

2012-05-13 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
system would still give the wrong result for characters that have the same romanization or same radical and stroke count. How about Japanese, are the sort names we have for those artists useful? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] pre-RFC2-320: Revised Sort Name Style - identifying the problems that need fixing

2012-05-13 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: In the record stores in Beijing I've been I haven't been able to discern any particular order at all, things have instead been grouped

Re: [mb-style] Allowing use of other databases

2012-05-11 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-04-29 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
this compromise ? (2) If both of us find http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Capitalization_Standard_Vietnamese acceptable, can't we simply skip directly to RFC/RFV of that proposal? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

[mb-style] RFC: Capitalization Standard Vietnamese (track/release titles)

2012-04-29 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Capitalization_Standard_Vietnamese I believe this would be the first guideline applying different rules to track and recording titles since RFC-333: Unify track/recording guidelines. -- Philip Jägenstedt

[mb-style] Should radio edit and similar go in recording title or annotation?

2012-04-02 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
provide any explicit guidance, only a broken link to Into the Blue (Beatmasters mix) ... -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Should radio edit and similar go in recording title or annotation?

2012-04-02 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 22:58, lorenz pressler l...@gmx.at wrote: Am 02.04.2012, 22:36 Uhr, schrieb Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org: http://musicbrainz.org/edit/16971109 reminded me of this issue, which I haven't understood since the introduction of NGS. One the one hand, disambiguation

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-102: Change Performance Relationship Type to Recording Relationship Type

2012-03-28 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
(whatever it even is) anyway, I don't care enough to argue against it. Can you elaborate on this? Is it recordings we shouldn't have, or a separation between different kinds of recordings? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] RFC STYLE-102: Change Performance Relationship Type to Recording Relationship Type

2012-03-28 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 08:47, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 00:22, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Note that we're not allowed to rename relationships, so the actual name of the relationship type will need to remain as performance. The link

[mb-style] Mixing simplified and traditional Chinese

2012-03-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
If there are any editors familiar with Chinese on this list, please comment on http://musicbrainz.org/edit/13543534 and vote on http://musicbrainz.org/edit/16954814. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

[mb-style] Featured artists: tracklists vs recordings

2012-03-05 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
to assume that e.g. the 2nd of these should be normalized to have the title Let It Go and the artist 黃立行 vs. 蕭亞軒? At the recording level, do we normalize to use feat. as the join phrase there, or do we change it only if two releases disagree? -- Philip Jägenstedt

Re: [mb-style] Featured artists: tracklists vs recordings

2012-03-05 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
-8338-055efff92b23 with recordings now, but looking at http://musicbrainz.org/artist/f592fff4-b203-4cf9-9908-0c93c403564f/recordings I'm not sure I'd be impressed if the artist credits were a wild mix, but I guess I'll come back to that when it happens... -- Philip Jägenstedt

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-02-29 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 15:35, Rupert Swarbrick rswarbr...@gmail.com wrote: jesus2099 Philip Jägenstedt wrote: ... lots. Guys, you have been discussing this for quite some time, frantically scoring points against each other and arguing that the other is not following a reputed source. You

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-02-28 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 18:06, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: If deemed necessary, I can ask my wife (currently in Hanoi) to contact the ministry of education and ask what style is considered correct in higher education. It's possible that they don't know or care

Re: [mb-style] RFV-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 19:47, jesus2099 hta3s836gzac...@jetable.org wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote To clarify for everyone who wasn't around, you did not participate in the original RFC/RFV cycle, but did object after the fact I note that you are quite blatant not fair play here pretending

Re: [mb-style] RFC-346. Style/Language/Vietnamese : Punctuation change

2012-02-21 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
with common usage. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
to remove the arrangement AR for works, as it seems very prone to incorrect use. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 22:45, Rupert Swarbrick rswarbr...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org writes: I would support an RFC to remove the arrangement AR for works, as it seems very prone to incorrect use. Ok, but do you have a candidate for how to express This version

Re: [mb-style] Arrange on works

2011-08-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 23:15, SwissChris swissch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Rupert Swarbrick rswarbr...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 18:22, jesus2099 hta3s836gzac...@jetable.org wrote: So, in decreasing

Re: [mb-style] I think Arrange on works were allowed too quickly without proper thinking

2011-08-19 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

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

2011-08-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
a feature request for applying edits to both track and recording simultaneously, in the rather common case of fixing a typo or capitalization that applies to both? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

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

2011-08-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:39, Andii Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 6 August 2011 10:09, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: 1. Will this RFV also add guidelines for what ETI should be included in track titles but not in release titles? Can you give an example

Re: [mb-style] RFC-326: Add Artist Type Other

2011-07-11 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
to differentiate between unknown/blank and none/other. [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Artist_Type Sounds good, I guess we'd make most special purpose artists into other. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Use of recording comment

2011-07-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
of a normalized title, just like for artists. I'll be voting no on edits like this where I come across them until there's a style guideline in place. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] Use of recording comment

2011-07-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
of a remaster. So, while not exactly being random information, the comments will contain information which doesn't belong in tags, normalized or otherwise. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] Use of recording comment

2011-07-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 19:19, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 2011-07-07 1:27, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: Would anyone editing along these lines we willing to try writing it up in a guideline? IMO, this list is big enough that people, by looking at the data, will conclude

Re: [mb-style] Use of recording comment

2011-07-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 00:33, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: On 2011-07-07 16:17, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 19:19, Alex Mauerha...@hawkesnest.net  wrote: I'll give it a shot: No artist's Recordings tab should list the same title twice with no disambiguation

[mb-style] Use of recording comment

2011-07-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
not covered by strict guidelines for disambiguation purposes only, not for tagging. http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Recording does not provide any guidance. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] Adding pirated download links to releases as can be downloaded for free from... relationships

2011-07-05 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
MusicBrainz needs to worry about the legality of the things it links to, only that which it hosts. If someone complains it's easy to remove the links again. so I'm voting yes to these edits. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Use of ‘fancy’ punctuation characters

2011-06-16 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
going to be made at all. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: volume numbers normalization only for release groups

2011-06-12 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: It's been more than a week, you can send an RFV now. Nikki Philip Jägenstedt wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Volume_numbers See the editing history for a clear diff. The essence of the change is to not normalize the release titles at all, only

[mb-style] Normalization of release-level data NGS

2011-06-12 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
what we should do instead. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:10, Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl wrote: Hello, On 05/06/11 21:06, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: 2011/6/5 Nicolás Tamargo de Egurenreosare...@gmail.com: The problem is in interpreting the cover. What is the distinction between an artist being mentioned in a comment

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 20:07, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: I guess you'd want to normalize capitalization as well, I'm really not sure about that bit... Disregard that bit, I think it's luks that's been arguing for that :) -- Philip Jägenstedt

Re: [mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 20:47, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: IMO, the sortname is useless for non-Latin scripts, or at least for Chinese. In order to get anything like a sane sorting you'd have to use the same transliteration system (say Hanyu Pinyin) for all artists

Re: [mb-style] VolumeNumberStyle in NGS?

2011-06-08 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
this against the hypothetical I want it exactly as on the cover user. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Artist sort name for a fairly special case

2011-06-08 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
artists (who must also have same-sounding but different surnames), so it's not really worthwhile trying to get canonical Japanese sorting using MusicBrainz. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
2011/6/6 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: 2011/6/6 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 22

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-07 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
or style guideline to back this up? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] Tagger Script documentation

2011-06-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
note, I wonder if we actually need to take static copies of the wiki any longer. Wouldn't it be simpler to just not change the stable guidelines in the wiki and just use those? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Dudeson) 2. Song E (rap by Tyra) 3. Bla bla (Artist A + Artist B) (Still waiting for a hint from the NGS masterminds about what they had in mind, if anything.) -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-06 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
2011/6/6 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 22:45, Simon Austin chi...@auzsoft.net wrote: Contraiwise NGS also added a split between recording and track title, with the ability

Re: [mb-style] feat. style and track/recording artist

2011-06-05 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
2011/6/5 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: Since NGS I'm often finding myself trying to decide what to do with tracks/recordings performed by multiple artists. As an example see track 1-11 of http

[mb-style] VolumeNumberStyle in NGS?

2011-06-04 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
release titles to things like Beloved Music Box Vol.5 right now? IMO, this would make perfect sense, but does of course need some getting used to. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

[mb-style] RFC: volume numbers normalization only for release groups

2011-06-04 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Volume_numbers See the editing history for a clear diff. The essence of the change is to not normalize the release titles at all, only the release group titles. This is a similar split to track/recording. -- Philip Jägenstedt

Re: [mb-style] VolumeNumberStyle in NGS?

2011-06-04 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 21:41, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/4 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: Is volume number style still relevant with NGS? Based on what I've seen from

Re: [mb-style] Release Country: What's preferred, Europe or all countries we can find even small evidence for?

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:37, jacobbrett jacobbr...@hotmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 22:02, Simon Austin chi...@auzsoft.net wrote: In this edit, http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14510889 some want to move an existing German release event to Europe, and keep

Re: [mb-style] Release Country: What's preferred, Europe or all countries we can find even small evidence for?

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 14:24, Simon Austin chi...@auzsoft.net wrote: On 30/05/2011 07:38, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: While I wouldn't mind keeping track of the fact that something was released in several regions, duplicating releases in this situation seems way overkill to me. For now, I'm

Re: [mb-style] Release Country: What's preferred, Europe or all countries we can find even small evidence for?

2011-05-28 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
other way than duplicating the whole release. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Merging multi-language releases?

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 22:53, Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl wrote: Hello, On 22/05/11 15:53, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: Before NGS I added some releases where both English and Chinese titles appear on the cover. I created one release for each language. http://musicbrainz.org/release/0a4a71ed-b7d9

Re: [mb-style] Separate works for instrumental version?

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 20:45, Nikki aei...@gmail.com wrote: Philip Jägenstedt wrote: That sounds pretty good, but it wouldn't really be accurate for karaoke tracks where the background singers are usually left in and only the lead singer is left out. Perhaps a karaoke attribute would work

Re: [mb-style] Capitalization in NGS

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
and recordings. (It's almost as if NGS was designed specifically to solve this problem...) -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Merging multi-language releases?

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 09:48, Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl wrote: Hello, On 24/05/11 09:28, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: Going forward, I think that it would be nice if perhaps recordings could have aliases by language. Perhaps there should be some attribute for official translations

Re: [mb-style] NGS guidelines

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
. -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] Bonus discs?

2011-05-24 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14491791 azertus is asking if we should have a way to record the fact that a disc is considered bonus. It does seem that this ability was lost in the move to NGS, but I'm not sure I think it's important. Thoughts? -- Philip Jägenstedt

[mb-style] Capitalization in NGS

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
idea is that we should follow the original capitalization, except where that would be ridiculous, e.g. if it was all uppercase. Even though I don't like the style, I hope we should preserve something like All Is Full Of Love. -- Philip Jägenstedt

[mb-style] Merging multi-language releases?

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
these, because almost no one will want both languages, I'm guessing. Should we perhaps just use pseudo-releases for tracklists on a usable form and leave the official releases in their original true-to-the-cover form? -- Philip Jägenstedt

Re: [mb-style] Merging multi-language releases?

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:53, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: Is this an approach that people agree with? To get an idea of the alternative, have a look at this release group that I split before NGS: http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/3c981710-92b6-3de0-90ba-baa655e06630

[mb-style] Separate works for instrumental version?

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
versions should get a lyricist relationship if they are linked to the single work. Ideas? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Capitalization in NGS

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
capitalizations. To see how a cover really looks we always can report to a cover-AR-pic… On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Track_and_release_titles This documentation isn't terribly clear, it doesn't say if the normal

Re: [mb-style] Separate works for instrumental version?

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 18:37, Aurélien Mino a.m...@free.fr wrote: On 05/22/2011 04:41 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: It seems rather silly to have separate works, but it also seems silly that the instrumental versions should get a lyricist relationship if they are linked to the single work

Re: [mb-style] Capitalization in NGS

2011-05-22 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
to mean. It seems to have been written by kuno, so perhaps he would like to chime in? It would be a pity if with NGS we *still* can't satisfy both people who want the titles from the cover and those who want only normalized titles, no? -- Philip Jägenstedt

[mb-style] Artist country

2011-05-18 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
/artist/ca264abf-3eb6-4d53-827b-6ab16988a4a3 (Cornelis Vreeswijk) Both of these artists were born in another but moved to Sweden during their childhoold, at age 1 and 12 respectively. Should the country be the country of birth or Sweden? -- Philip Jägenstedt

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

2010-06-25 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
the Proposals page themselves.  :) Brian On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 17:18, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Capitalization_Standard_For_Transliterations This changed

[mb-style] NGS: purpose of length on recording?

2010-06-23 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
I see that in NGS beta 2 recordings can have a length set in the edit UI. However, this doesn't seem to be related to the track length in release listings. What's the purpose of the field? -- Philip Jägenstedt ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

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

2010-06-21 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 17:18, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Foolip/Capitalization_Standard_For_Transliterations This changed a bit during RFC, so please read it again if you haven't already done so. Note specifically that the scope is limited

Re: [mb-style] A proposal has passed (was RFV: Capitalization Standard Chinese)

2010-06-10 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
making the needed changes (removing the proposal header, adding the caps standard header, etc) to the proposal page?  Navap can help you with renaming the page away from the Proposal: namespace.  :) Brian On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org wrote: Oh right, I

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

2010-06-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 19:07, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/7, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com: 2010/6/7, Philip Jägenstedt phi...@foolip.org: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:26, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/7, Frederic Da Vitoria davito

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