Now, I'm really confused with the legal artist name stuff.
2011-05-01 12134, 2011
reosarevok
Snartal: what's confusing you?
2011-05-01 12107, 2011
Snartal
One place doesn't clearly mention it, one place says don't add it as an artist, and yet we have an AR for performing artist, which requires an entry in the artist table.
2011-05-01 12137, 2011
reosarevok
The "performs as" relationship is most useful when the same person uses several names
2011-05-01 12146, 2011
reosarevok
Then you can use the legal name to link them all together
2011-05-01 12151, 2011
nikki
(and that's what it was originally added for)
2011-05-01 12126, 2011
reosarevok
Some people might argue that it's useful to create the legal name artist for all artists who use a performing name (and not just a variation of their legal name)
2011-05-01 12131, 2011
reosarevok might be one of those people
2011-05-01 12145, 2011
nikki
some would argue that it splits up the db too much
2011-05-01 12151, 2011
nikki might just be one of those :P
2011-05-01 12137, 2011
Snartal
I'm one who doesn't have a clue, cause to me, its about what is what is going to be the best in searchin, and also elminating people adding duplicate artists.
2011-05-01 12159, 2011
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Snartal
Does the search feature use ARs?
2011-05-01 12128, 2011
nikki
no
2011-05-01 12115, 2011
dubwai
I should add amazon links only it have track-listing and cover image?
2011-05-01 12102, 2011
reosarevok
dubwai: I don't think there's consensus about that
2011-05-01 12116, 2011
reosarevok
If you feel it adds something useful apart from just a link to Amazon, add it
2011-05-01 12117, 2011
reosarevok
If not, not
2011-05-01 12129, 2011
Snartal
And I'm guessing it doesn't use annotions either. Seems search only uses artistname and alias.
2011-05-01 12142, 2011
dubwai
it add information only about what label produce this disc?
I thought ASIN links were a good thing for MB, due to the referrals. Unless I understood the convo incorrectly the other day.
2011-05-01 12129, 2011
nikki
some people don't like them when there's no cover art, since we just get an empty box instead of an image
2011-05-01 12138, 2011
nikki
and others think it's just clutter if it doesn't provide cover art
2011-05-01 12154, 2011
nikki
if you haven't noticed, getting people to agree on things here is difficult ;)
2011-05-01 12118, 2011
Snartal
Well, heck, if we all agreeded, it would be boring.
2011-05-01 12117, 2011
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Snartal
reosarevok: by adding the AR, doesn't that increase the possibility of people filing releases under the legal name?
2011-05-01 12123, 2011
reosarevok
Snartal: not really, unless they want to be complicated
2011-05-01 12101, 2011
reosarevok
People tend to follow the cover as closely as possible
2011-05-01 12123, 2011
reosarevok
Because it's simpler
2011-05-01 12117, 2011
Snartal
I'm just trying to figure out an edit I did. I merged "Albita Rodr�guez" with "Albita" since that is her performance name, it shows that way on her official page, etc. Yet Albita Rodr�guez is her legal name. So I'm thoughly confused now where I should put the legal name. Alias? AR?, Artist Comment, nowhere?
2011-05-01 12128, 2011
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2011-05-01 12112, 2011
Snartal
Who here is working on the NGS UI interface?
2011-05-01 12118, 2011
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dubwai
I don't work, but I am disappointed because in old categories have normal vies (Albums, EPs, Live Releases, Singles, etc) now they have (Album, EP, Live, Single) why they don't like plural numbers
2011-05-01 12109, 2011
dubwai
*view
2011-05-01 12157, 2011
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dubwai
how I must add people that create DUB version of album?
2011-05-01 12118, 2011
dubwai
mixed, remixed?
2011-05-01 12131, 2011
dubwai
or sound engenierd
2011-05-01 12141, 2011
lidel
I think 'remixed' is used for dub releases
2011-05-01 12153, 2011
lidel
in most cases.
2011-05-01 12155, 2011
dubwai
This is a second performance by the engineers (Jim Fox and Marcus Urani) of previously recorded material rearranged with effects and stereo spacing.
kepstin wonders what exactly that does, and whether it would be useful for album art links
2011-05-01 12150, 2011
Tecfan
album art loads sloooooooooooooooow
2011-05-01 12154, 2011
Tecfan
:P
2011-05-01 12118, 2011
kepstin
that's partly because the image links on archive.org typically go to full-size images instead of thumbnails :/
2011-05-01 12123, 2011
kepstin
hmm. looks like it basically acts a caching proxy.
2011-05-01 12150, 2011
kepstin
neat. any time you visit a page using the liveweb feature, it takes a snapshot to load into the permanent archive.
2011-05-01 12120, 2011
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kepstin
ooh, that's annoying.
2011-05-01 12155, 2011
kepstin
you can't link to the new-style archive.org links on the old musicbrainz site, because the URL cleanup javascript deletes the extra 'http://' in the link :/
2011-05-01 12108, 2011
kepstin ponders whether to use Ⅱ or II in this album title...
