[mb-style] Should we change Classical Rules?

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 05:46:49PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
[snip]
> >The way it is not "a win" is that the recording of Bach Violin Concerti
> >will no longer be collected together with the other recordings of Bach
> >Violin Concerti.
> 
> Why won't it?  As I understand it, it will still show up in the exact 
> same spot it shows up in Bach's artist page right now.  Or is there 
> something blatantly obvious that I'm missing?

Possibly the fact that while the album will show up in the artist page
on musicbrainz.org, the album likely *won't* show up under Bach in
album/artist organized music players out there.


Actually, in some hypothetical idyllic future, I think the correct way
to do this is to independently store the composer and performer as
attributes of the album in the musicbrainz db.  Then it's up to an
option / heuristics in the tagger app as to which db field gets
shoehorned into the Artist metatdata field on the audio file.
NextGenerationScheme may be capable of this, I haven't had a chance to
look at the details enough to know.

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