[mb-style] Request for Clarification: positioning of disc numbers

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/10/18, David Gibson <musicbrainz at gibson.dropbear.id.au>:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:40:08PM +0200, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> > 2006/10/18, David Gibson <musicbrainz at gibson.dropbear.id.au>:
> > >As far as I can tell, the current style guideline information doesn't
> > >have any examples covering the intersection of DiscNumberStyle and
> > >ClassicalStyleGuide.  Which order should the information mandated by
> > >each go, that is should it be:
> > >
> > >    Big Works (Timbuktu Philharmomic feat. conductor Fred Nertz) (disc 1)
> > >or
> > >    Big Works (disc 1) (Timbuktu Philharmomic feat. conductor Fred Nertz)
> > >
> > >I think the first option is more logical - particularly if the discs
> > >of the release appear together in a list it's more quickly obvious
> > >that they are discs of the same release if the variable part is at the
> > >end.
> > >
> > >It's a little less obvious when the disc number includes a disc title
> > >as well, and several release of this type have been entered the other
> > >way around recently.
> > >
> >
> > My first reaction was to agree with you. This would be better for
> > sorting: all the discs of a same release would come together if you
> > put the performers before, which seems a good feature. But there might
> > be exceptions if the performers change from disc to disc...
>
> Yes.. but the same group of performers would be the more common case.
> And if we put disc number last where it is the only changing part, we
> should probably put it last always, for consistency.  I can't think of
> a (non-contrived) case where putting the disc number before the
> perfomer info is actually better, only cases where it makes no
> difference or is worse.
>
> --
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Not so sure. A box set of Mozart's complete works comes to mind... But
I agree this is very rare. It should only be used if the performers
change from disc to disc.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria