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Hi. I need some guidance on adding a classical release

for the release "artist" I'm doing "composer, composer; performer, performer" as the style guide dictates

but

for the tracklist page, do I do the track artist (composer), or do I do the recording artist (performer)?

if the answer is the composer, then how to I ensure the recordings tab correctly has the performers?

@fliz: The tracklist artists should be the composer, yes. For the recording artists, you have to edit them after adding the release, but we have userscripts that remove the tediousness from this

https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Guides/Userscripts "Replace recording artist from recording AR"

ah ok. I was just concerned that I would be adding new recordings to the database that are bad.

you don't need to be overly concerned about that specifically, everything can be fixed later

esp. the classical guidelines aren't super obvious and require more work than other types of music

ok. I created the release https://musicbrainz.org/release/8a539d26-2176-4...

now how to I run the script. I already had greasemonkey installed and installed the script

it says it can edit from an artist or work page. I think I need to install the one that works on a release page

the documentation for the script is unclear

Replace recording artist from recording AR

Applied on:

Release overview page

Description:

Copy the performers in recording relationships to the selected recordings "artist" field

How to use:

Click the "Show checkboxes" in the right-side script menu to display the individual recordings. Select the ones you want to modify (there is an optional "select all" button). Click "Replace selected artists" to apply.

NB: the edit will be sent only once but in case of failure you can click "Replace selected artists" again to retry only the selected recordings where a failure occured

I don't see "show checkboxes"

I see the select all button, but it does nothing

also, the performers in this case are Mireille Podeur and Orlando Bass.

They are credited as "Duo Podeur & Bass"

I can use the "artist as credited" and "join phrase" to get the output to be "Podeur & Bass", but if I add a blank addition artist to include the join phrase "Duo" it throws an error because it doesn't like the blank artist

any idea how I squeeze "duo" in there? Should I just say the artist as credited for Mireille Poduer is "Duo Podeur"?

fliz: depends on if you consider the "Duo" part of the actual artist name, or just an information that this is in fact a duo

I think I would leave it as "Podeur & Bass"

regarding the userscript, you first need to add the relevant relationships (like you did with the first track), then once that is finished you can use the box in the sidebar

another thing you might do from the relationship editor (https://musicbrainz.org/release/8a539d26-2176-4...) is link your recordings to Works, that way you get composer information