luks: I have an mp3 that was release by the artist in several different albums. for example, Arctic Monkeys's Cornerstone was released in both albums, Cornerston - EP and Humbug.
luks: I'd like to have both albums in my iTunes without actually duplicating the mp3 file. Is this possible?
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luks
epc: no, it isn't possible
because of the way audio file tags work
epc
luks: and is it possible to let picard do the work of "duplicating" the file? for example, a track from a disc be dragged over another disc holding the SHIFT key?
or something like that.
luks
epc: nope, picard can't do that
epc
luks: ok. thanks for the help! :)
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reosarevok wonders whether the hyphens or however they're called here are correct http://musicbrainz.org/work/f314a234-dfc1-3ed3-bd7f-6edad7cb4121
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jacobbrett
reosarevok, if I understand correctly, the terms separated are referring to different sections of the recording? If so, I suppose em dashes would be most appropriate, though without spaces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash
CallerNo6
As I understand it, the question of putting spaces around em-dashes is regional.
CallerNo6 prefers them without spaces personally, but has never seen it done that way in a CSG-ified title
jacobbrett
Interesting, I'd have thought that to be the case with en dashes...em dashes already take up so much space :P
CallerNo6 is checking the Chicago Manual
Leftmost
Stylistically, I've always seen em dashes with no spaces, en dashes with spaces.
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pbryan
MB server feelin' some pain right now?
murdos
anyone else getting 502 and 500 errors from musicbrainz.org?
Lotheric: I don't think the brackets should be there, the featured artists simply go after the "feat." and the non-featured artists go before it
CallerNo6
reosarevok: the link you provided showed /em dashes/ which are longer and (at least in the US) generally used without spaces
nikki
Lotheric: but I wouldn't vote no, as it's easier to modify it later to remove the brackets than it is to look up all the artists again :)
Lotheric
could it be clearer perhaps on the wiki ? the example shown is taken from the recording 'form' which does not allow parenthesis at the end
nikki
you can add brackets there, but you have to add an extra empty artist credit :/
Lotheric
I'll do that, just wanted to have more than one opinion before I start changing the way I edit stuff
nikki
heh... and I never did like the idea of screenshots on that page
CallerNo6
an aside about featured artists... has there been any talk about cases where "featured" just calls attention to a prominent member of a band? I see that in compilations.
nikki
torc asked about it at some point, but not really
I don't have enough experience with those to have any strong opinions. all the ones I know of are entered as new artists
CallerNo6
I've been wondering if/how to indicate the distinction between those and "feat = guest".
Nevermind. Just babbling.
nikki
what would you have done pre-ngs?
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CallerNo6
Asked the same question, and then said, "nevermind... just babbling" probably
nikki
haha
CallerNo6
Next time I run into a good example, I'll give it some more thought.
Lotheric
what to do when you have featured artists on the inlay but not on the back cover ?
nikki
I think my answer would be: if before you would have ignored and it just entered it under the main artist -> use the entire thing as an artist credit of the main artist. if you would have treated it like a featuring artist and put it in the title as (feat. foo) -> treat it like a featuring artist with two artists linked. if you would have added a new artist -> add a new artist
CallerNo6
That can't fault that reasoning.
er, "That makes sense"
nikki understood what you meant :)
Lotheric
I have a question about labels
the wiki says we should use the imprint and not holdings... since we hvae the possibility of having multiple labels for a release now in ngs can we add the distributor ?
CallerNo6
Lotheric: (speaking only for myself) I wouldn't want to mix the concepts of "label" and "distributor" by using the "label field" for both.
It's a confusing enough subject already :)
Lotheric
I did not mean ad a new field
I agree it's confusing :)
reosarevok
Lotheric, I'd add it there too if the logo is in it