here's another good example: Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
2014-10-10 28300, 2014
_Dave_
I'd interpret this more as "Medeski Martin & Wood" + "Scofield"
2014-10-10 28325, 2014
_Dave_
ah yeah artist-rels
2014-10-10 28329, 2014
VxJasonxV
hmm
2014-10-10 28344, 2014
VxJasonxV
it would appear that murdos' bandcamp script is currently breaking the ability to buy anything from it
2014-10-10 28311, 2014
CallerNo6
hmm, could be "MMW" plus "Scofield". I mean, a case could be made for sure.
2014-10-10 28325, 2014
CallerNo6
Jazz is hard. The artists are often pretty promiscuous.
2014-10-10 28340, 2014
_Dave_
I can disambiguate a lot of that personally
2014-10-10 28343, 2014
_Dave_
but yeah
2014-10-10 28355, 2014
_Dave_
My use cases are a bit off from the norm
2014-10-10 28332, 2014
yeeeargh
from time to time those collaborations are a bit finicky because it's not so clear if it's should be considered a project/collaboration or a new band
2014-10-10 28345, 2014
_Dave_
Flora Purim & Airto Moreira is another hard one
2014-10-10 28311, 2014
CallerNo6
But if you're looking for an underlying logic, it's usually this: does the artist Foo&Bar have relationships that require that entity to exist? Like a webpage dedicated to Foo&Bar or something?
2014-10-10 28342, 2014
_Dave_
well, I favor decomposition, so I don't mind having two artist mbid where it's considered one because I will "and" any queries for both
2014-10-10 28308, 2014
_Dave_
I am looking for an underlying logic yes!
2014-10-10 28310, 2014
_Dave_
:D
2014-10-10 28350, 2014
_Dave_
that doesn't explain Prince & The New Power Generation though?
2014-10-10 28321, 2014
yeeeargh
some of those might be merged together out of historical reasons i think
2014-10-10 28320, 2014
kepstin-laptop
hysterical raisons.
2014-10-10 28320, 2014
CallerNo6
yeah, I'd split that one
2014-10-10 28332, 2014
yeeeargh
assigning multiple artists to a release/recording was probably not possible at first
2014-10-10 28341, 2014
_Dave_
How about Paul McCartney & Wings? :D
2014-10-10 28306, 2014
kepstin-laptop
yeeeargh: yeah, multiple artists was a feature of "ngs", the "next generation schema"
2014-10-10 28324, 2014
kepstin-laptop
released at the same time as the big site redesign, etc.
2014-10-10 28325, 2014
_Dave_
clearly it was added after the fact...hey my software dates back to 1998 and I am just adding that idea because of MB
anyway, rather than worry about splitting or not splitting CSN-and-sometimes-Y or MMW+S, I'd like to have a better way to build an aritst's discography based on performance names, eponymous bands etc
2014-10-10 28305, 2014
_Dave_
I suggest looking at whether an artist has recorded anything on their own
2014-10-10 28315, 2014
_Dave_
if they have, then IMO they should be split
2014-10-10 28328, 2014
kepstin-laptop
.
2014-10-10 28338, 2014
kepstin-laptop
er, oops,
2014-10-10 28347, 2014
kepstin-laptop has no idea how he typed a single .
2014-10-10 28322, 2014
CallerNo6
one character at a time, like the rest of us?
2014-10-10 28341, 2014
CallerNo6
akk. I'm worse than usual today.
2014-10-10 28310, 2014
_Dave_
Another issue is...given the Miles Davis Quintet ... how do we find out just the albums with John Coltrane on them?
2014-10-10 28327, 2014
VxJasonxV
Hey Mineo, got a question for you sorta re: an edit you made last year
2014-10-10 28304, 2014
CallerNo6
_Dave_: generally, you'd have to look at performance credits on the recordings.
2014-10-10 28326, 2014
CallerNo6
But in this case, wasn't Coltrane a stable member of the quintet? I can't remember.
2014-10-10 28350, 2014
_Dave_
either way
2014-10-10 28305, 2014
_Dave_
I'd like to find this information
2014-10-10 28321, 2014
CallerNo6
oh, oops. no, he was only in the first quintet.
2014-10-10 28329, 2014
_Dave_
it looks like I'm going to eventually have to make a postgres slave for MB
2014-10-10 28352, 2014
_Dave_
on FreeBSD
2014-10-10 28304, 2014
_Dave_
so I can really look at all this data without impacting your main servers
