[mb-style] Should we change Classical Rules?

[Christopher Aillon]

David Gibson wrote:
> 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.

Interesting.  What is the timeline on it, and where do I learn more?