[mb-style] How to handle band/artist name changes

[Kerensky97]

I think something like this is definately the way to go.

To me it would be ideal if we had the option for the artist page to show all
the titles they did under different names based off AR links and dates,
perhaps greyed out with a note as to which name it was performed under. 
That way looking at one artist page would show everything they've done under
under other projects and names and you wouldn't have to piece together info
from the relationship field.  Maybe have it expandable like the "show all
releases" link we have now.

But that all seems like something that the magic NGS would do.  For now i
think we need to consider an AR that artist X changed name to artist Y (a
complete changeover, not performas as or anything like that).  And the
Picard tweak would be cool too (it'll cause issues with last.fm submissions
though :o ).

-Dustin


Aaron Cooper wrote:
> 
> I think you've all heard my arguments before :)  So here's my new
> proposal:
> 
> 1a. Have an AR that links the two MB Artists - "X changed their name
> to Y" for example.  A problem might arise when X changed their name to
> Y, then to Z, and then back to X.  We'd need to include dates or
> something so that we can make the tagger figure out which is the
> "current" performing name.
> 
> or 1b. Have an AR that links the two MB Artists - "Y is the most
> recent performance name of X" and link all old names (X) to the newest
> performance name (Y).
> 
> 2. Have a variable in Picard that can let you use the
> %currentArtistiName% instead of %artist%.  This would quiet all the
> whining of the music taggers and me :)
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Aaron
> 
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