[mb-devel] Release date/locations

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/5/2, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello!
>
> It just occurred to me today, while voting on a huge list of bootlegs
> (Nirvana): why don't we add a "recording" line just like (actually,
> similar) to the release line?
>
> I'm not sure how hard this would be on the database, but I suppose we
> could add a new table specifically for "recordings". Each "recording"
> line would have a foreign key with the release ID, so we can have a
> single, fast query to find any recordings for each release without
> changing the existing tables in any way. (I suppose the releases are
> made the same way, but I didn't check.)
>
> I volunteer to make a script to parse existing bootleg titles for
> things like this; it won't be perfect, but it can be quite good.
>
> I suppose we'd need fields for date, country, "location" (everything
> between the title and the country), and a free-form "comment" field
> (this could cover, for instance, which tracks were recorded where for
> releases recorded in several places).
>
> This could also be used for any live releases, and also for some
> studio ones (all the last ten or so discs I added had a "recorded at
> XYZ studio" lines in the liner notes). It would also clean-up a lot
> the bootleg guidelines, and would allow many fun things like keeping
> multi-disc bootlegs sorted by title (in case where each disc is from
> different dates), sorting everything by recording date, or country,
> and probably other things I didn't think of.
>
> What do you think?
>

There is something like this in NGS. Why not start implementing in bootlegs?
But I think that if we do, it should be implemented in such a way that users
can apply it to any live performance. Now that I think of it, I don't see
why it shouldn't (and why it couldn't) be applied to any recording, live or
not.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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