[mb-style] Cover style

[Sami Sundell]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:27:51AM +0200, Simon Reinhardt wrote:

> I think the original idea was only to link performers and the like to
> the earliest version of a treack/album. That was part of a thread
> where I asked about different AR linking philosophies, I think most
> people nowadays add ARs to the releases they own / they can find infos
> about.

Yeah, linking to the earliest would make sense. Of course, there's the
magic "earliest release" again, it's sometimes hard to find. And lots of
work for a random user.

And of course, there are different versions. For example, I added The
Beatles' Get Back into the database (the single, which preceded Let It
Be by about a year). Now there are AR's for both the single and the
album version. The album version has a cover AR (actually redundant, it
points to a track that's part of a cover album).

The more interesting is the "mashup" AR. Since the single and the album
version of Get Back differ a bit, it's feasible that that difference can
be heard in the mashup as well. So, which version has been used, and to
should we point to that or the earliest release?-)

> Lyrics are included in the composition object as of now. That could
[...]
> IMHO it would be simplier to cover all this with one object.

I agree, I just noted that we're talking mostly about compositions in
the new model.

> I don't think he meant actually storing lyrics or linking to them but
> just having an object which represents the lyrics like the composition
> object.

Exactly. In combination with other information or as a separate object.

-- 
 Sami Sundell
 ssundell at iki.fi