#musicbrainz

nikki: ping

caller_6: pong

nikki: looking at the AR inheritance question. How would you feel about a flowchart? Would that make it easier to cram in more info and remain somewhat readable?

hm, maybe...

I'll play around with Dia and see what I come up with.

downside: it'd be an image rather than text, of course

question about recordings: are re-masters a separate "recording"?

probably

in many cases that's hard to tell though

as far as I know, we currently merge remasters

we sometimes do

we have a release relationship for saying an album is a remaster

yeah, inconsistent :)

might be easier to just merge remasters in NGS

but at the same time we often just add another release event

I wonder what are the advantages of not merging them?

for PUIDs, I imagine they look just like a differently encoded version of the same track

yeah, i think people will tend to merge them unless they can tell they're different... like isrcs, relationships or whatever

luks: remasters often have distinct ISRCs

well, are there any AR's that would apply to a re-mastered recording, but not to the original?

the one for remastering the song ;)

you'd think.

so there needs to be an entity for that AR to point to separate from the "original recording" or "ur-recording" or whatever it is

i guess in my mind, there's a layer that belongs between "recording" and "track" that represents re-masters, radio-edits and so on.

i think it was there in the early diagrams... but ngs can't do everything...

and we have to draw a line between usability vs accuracy and complexity

then should a "recording" hold info on multiple instances? (i.e. re-masters, re-edits)

hmm. an extra layer on top of recordings would be useful with the karaoke/instrumental mixes of tracks that I see a lot.

Because they are literally the same recording, with a slightly altered mix...

then again, it's complicated enough as it is, and the main benefit is less duplication of performance ARs.

in which case a performance layer between work and recording would be a solution too.

hmm. to make the character artist credits autoconvert in NGS, I'd have to make "エルシィ starring 伊藤かな恵" a collaboration artist between エルシィ and 伊藤かな恵.

I can't imagine people would be any happier with that in the current DB than what we have now :/

regarding karaoke: layer on top? or below? is a "recording" the master recording created during the recording session?

i.e. Work>Recording>"version">Track ? Or Work>MasterRecording>Recording>Track?

I'd forgotten about it, but I think there /was/ talk of a "performance" entity at one point too. Eek. Work>Performance>MasterRecording>"version">Track

the karaoke/radio mix tracks are presumably derived from the same master recording

yeah, I assumed that's what you meant

If we want to just minimize AR duplication, Work → Performance → Recording → Recording (for remixes) is probably enough

And they'd, presumably, have AR's that wouldn't apply to the MasterRecording

hmm.

well, presumably you could have someone who does studio recordings, then someone who mixes them in a separate step

but then it gets ridiculous

right. which makes even the earliest release a "re-mix" of sorts

well, no, just a 'mix' :)

ah. yes. that.

of course, on a lot of tracks the recording and mixing engineer turn out to be the same person...

Hmm. what should I do when vocals done with an artist credit like "Chorus: エルシィ starring 伊藤かな恵". Can't do that in NGS because you can only link an AR to an artist, not via the artist credit system :/

did the api change in the last month or two?

specifically the album response