[mb-style] CSG Clean up - Let's not bother

[Chris B]

On 12/02/2008, Jim DeLaHunt <from.nabble at jdlh.com> wrote:
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> Don (Caladach)
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> Welcome to the thread.  Thank you for your thoughts.
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> Cadalach wrote:
> >
> > ...I have just spent a couple of hours reading through a pile of this
> > stuff and I now have a headache....
> >
>
> I sympathise!
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> Cadalach wrote:
> >
> > ...As far as I have been able to tell MB is not some kind of
> > "encyclopaedia of music" and efforts to make it so, especially in the
> > realm of classical music, are questionable. It seems more that MB is
> > an "encyclopaedia of _recorded_ music" and there's a big difference
> > between the two.
> >
>
> This is a really important point.  I think you are pointing out a difference
> that others have pointed out, though when you say "recorded music" I think
> you are mean "distribution artifacts of recorded music, e.g. CDs and their
> cases". I would phrase it as the difference between:
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> * MB describing the music signal contained in identifiable,
> generally-distributed pieces of recorded music, and
> * MB describing the identifiable, generally-distributed artifacts which
> contain recorded music, including the cases of the artifacts and the music
> signals they carry [I believe this is called a "discography".]
>
> I believe the preponderance of opinion and behaviour I see at MB says that
> more of the MB community wants it to be the former than the latter.  In
> other words, I think you are in the minority on this question, though
> community opinion is varied and you are certainly not alone.

well, there was a discussion a few months back about adding
'sessionographies' for artists, so that (eg) an entire setlist for a
gig could be added for people to tag against, regardless if only a
subset of that gig was recorded, which the majority were against
AFAIK.

i think such a thing would require a completely different DB
structure, and any sort of 'discography' would have to be a seperate
part. IMO trying to get a our current 'discography-centric' DB to work
as both is gonna end in being a jack of both trades, master of
neither. giving a structure to discography data is what MBz is all
about. the CSG is all about the latter, IMO, and i don't think the
changes made have been contrary to that.