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

2008-01-17 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
On Jan 17, 2008 6:26 AM, David K. Gasaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jan 2008 at 12:27, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: Isn't the main problem here the fact that Picard adds release-AR credits to files indistinguishable from track-ARs? The main problem is that file metadata formats and, even more

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

2008-01-16 Thread David K. Gasaway
On 9 Jan 2008 at 12:27, Bogdan Butnaru wrote: Isn't the main problem here the fact that Picard adds release-AR credits to files indistinguishable from track-ARs? The main problem is that file metadata formats and, even more importantly, media software/hardware players don't support the degree

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

2008-01-09 Thread David K. Gasaway
On 4 Jan 2008 at 11:14, Chris B wrote: in any case, that's what i mean when i'm talking about inheritance vs propagation While inheritance is a closer approximation of the concept than propagation, it's still pretty wrong. :) Inheritance expresses a specificity relationship. For example,

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

2008-01-09 Thread Bogdan Butnaru
Isn't the main problem here the fact that Picard adds release-AR credits to files indistinguishable from track-ARs? I mean, it seems quite clear to me that release credits and track credits are slightly different in meaning, and the two have been used on liner notes since forever without major

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

2008-01-04 Thread Philipp Wolfer
On Jan 4, 2008 1:17 AM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we also can come up with a list of which ARs can't be non-fuzzy at the release level, or those which only should ever apply to release or tracks, we could also have it set so depending on the AR, either the non-fuzzy release

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

2008-01-04 Thread Philipp Wolfer
On Jan 4, 2008 10:53 AM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but inheritance (at least that proposed @ http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/3029 ) does not imply propagation. propagation implies that they get copied down the levels, but that is

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

2008-01-04 Thread Chris B
On 04/01/2008, Philipp Wolfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 10:53 AM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me for sounding like a broken record, but inheritance (at least that proposed @ http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/3029 ) does not imply propagation. propagation implies

[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