Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 8:41 AM, Jim DeLaHunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bram has said just exactly what I wanted to say. A release-level AR means that the person or group had the relationship for some or all of the release, just as the track-level AR means they had the relationship for some or all of

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 3:31 AM, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/3, Chad Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Olivier wrote: I would like to drive the list attention to: http://musicbrainz.org/show/label/?labelid=3267 Comments? Should we make this official (eg: documented)? Preference for

[mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Hi, folks: I had just come strongly to Brian's Viewpoint #2 when this thread broke out. I support his proposal, but I'd like to reword it (below): Brian Schweitzer wrote: ... Viewpoint 2: A release and its tracks are two entirely separate considerations. An AR added at the

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Lauri Watts wrote: We can't accomodate both points of view, and trying to is just resulting in a mess. We just have to pick one, and document it _clearly_. I don't understand why everyone is so against writing down clear rules, when not doing so results in all this ambiguity. I

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding {instrument} and {vocals} to 'Recorded By' AR

2008-01-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Gecks: Gecks wrote: changed to an RFV as i can't think of any reason why this shouldn't already be in! anyone??? I don't know the process; I don't know what an RFV implies. But I'd feel more comfortable delaying an final vote to implement the proposal until there is a written proposal

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Bram van Dijk
Thanks! I agree with this proposal. Jim DeLaHunt schreef: Hi, folks: I had just come strongly to Brian's Viewpoint #2 when this thread broke out. I support his proposal, but I'd like to reword it (below): Brian Schweitzer wrote: ... Viewpoint 2: A release and its tracks are two

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-03 Thread Kuno Woudt
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:55:37AM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote: We cover that pretty well with artists by having [no artist] and [unknown] to distinguish between the two. Why not [no label] and [unknown]. Sounds good to me. On Jan 3, 2008 3:31 AM, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-03 Thread Sami Sundell
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:41:56AM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote: I was on the verge of writing this down in http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistRoleInheritance . I'm a newly-arrived MB We have to actually _have_ a consensus before running around editing pages. Another duality here. We

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-03 Thread Philipp Wolfer
On Jan 3, 2008 9:55 AM, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be quite handy in fact in a lot of cases. Those three plus [unknown] and the abovementioned [none] and [white label] would cover a lot of ground, and are pretty easy to distinguish. I think that would be very valuable.

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding {instrument} and {vocals} to 'Recorded By' AR

2008-01-03 Thread Chris B
ok, i've done so :) http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/EngineerRelationshipType basically, it's analogous with ArrangerRelationshipType in that you can specifiy an instrument (and additionally, vocal type) (whilst i was there, i amended the link phrases for both classes so that they include instrument

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-03 Thread Chad Wilson
Philipp Wolfer wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 9:55 AM, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be quite handy in fact in a lot of cases. Those three plus [unknown] and the abovementioned [none] and [white label] would cover a lot of ground, and are pretty easy to distinguish. I think

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re:

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Schweitzer
All in all, what problem does this thread try to solve? a * if it's the global question of NGS and AR, I think this discussion here is not appropriate, that it's too early (without even knowing what exactly we will have from NGS and in what timeline, and exactly how things will get

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 2:52 PM, Bram van Dijk On another note, I think that the quarrel here is also a bit about what musicbrainz is. Either a database for tagging mp3 files, or an encyclopedia of music. If it is just a means of tagging MP3 files, there is no need for release-level AR's, unless

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Bram van Dijk
Now we are getting somewhere... Lauri Watts schreef: On Jan 3, 2008 2:52 PM, Bram van Dijk On another note, I think that the quarrel here is also a bit about what musicbrainz is. Either a database for tagging mp3 files, or an encyclopedia of music. If it is just a means of tagging MP3

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 5:33 PM, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * I do presume that _because_ AR's are being propagated, anything that is specifically AR'ed has had a higher standard of fact checking applied by the editor who put it there, and they did it to the highest possible level of

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Chris B
On 03/01/2008, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 5:33 PM, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * I do presume that _because_ AR's are being propagated, anything that is specifically AR'ed has had a higher standard of fact checking applied by the editor who put it

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 6:44 PM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/01/2008, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 5:33 PM, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * I do presume that _because_ AR's are being propagated, anything that is specifically AR'ed has had a higher

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 7:16 PM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would like all ARs to be meaningful. We would like everyone to agree on just what any given AR level implies. We would love if all release level ARs applied only to all tracks, but we are in agreement that: 1) This

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Schweitzer
anyway, there's 2 options: 1) take release level ARs to mean 'applies to every track' and consign every liner credit that we can't apply to either every track or one single track to the annotation. 2) use this proposition - ie index things that are given at the release level to the

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Bram van Dijk
+1 though I really wish we could come up with another word for "fuzzy". IMHO "fuzzy" states that we dont know what an AR means, while in my opinion we know exactly what it means. Lauri Watts schreef: On Jan 3, 2008 7:16 PM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding {instrument} and {vocals} to 'Recorded By' AR

2008-01-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Gecks: Gecks wrote: ok, i've done so :) http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/EngineerRelationshipType basically, it's analogous with ArrangerRelationshipType in that you can specifiy an instrument (and additionally, vocal type) (whilst i was there, i amended the link phrases for both classes

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Adding {instrument} and {vocals} to 'Recorded By' AR

2008-01-03 Thread Chris B
On 03/01/2008, Jim DeLaHunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gecks: Gecks wrote: ok, i've done so :) http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/EngineerRelationshipType basically, it's analogous with ArrangerRelationshipType in that you can specifiy an instrument (and additionally, vocal type) (whilst

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Chris B
On 03/01/2008, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyway, there's 2 options: 1) take release level ARs to mean 'applies to every track' and consign every liner credit that we can't apply to either every track or one single track to the annotation. 2) use this proposition - ie

[mb-style] Re: Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Schweitzer
That crashing noise was the sky falling after Brian and I just came to almost exactly the same conclusions. So +1 what he said above. No wonder it's so cold here... even the flames of hell have gone out! LOL Ok, here's just a thought on how we can do this, and at the same time, simplify

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Chad Wilson
Brian Schweitzer wrote: My sense of what's been said, and some thoughts on how maybe we can move forward: We would like all ARs to be meaningful. We would like everyone to agree on just what any given AR level implies. We would love if all release level ARs applied only to all tracks, but we

Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12

2008-01-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Brian Schweitzer wrote: Ok, here's just a thought on how we can do this, and at the same time, simplify the 2 AR pages in to one (I don't know how many times I've tried to walk people through how to even get to the batch AR page...).

[mb-style] Fuzzy, accurate, and precise

2008-01-03 Thread Jim DeLaHunt
Bram van Dijk wrote: ...though I really wish we could come up with another word for fuzzy. IMHO fuzzy states that we dont know what an AR means, while in my opinion we know exactly what it means. I agree. Reading the exchange below between Lauri and Bram, or Olivier's response to J-4