[mb-style] Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers

[Leiv Hellebo]

Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2008 10:18 PM, Leiv Hellebo wrote:
> 
> 
>     One good thing is that the MoveReleaseEdit has this checkbox for leaving
>     the current artist as track artist. This should make it easy to move
>     lots of releases fast. (Though if the composer is not the release
>     artist, I don't really see s/he's the track artist either)
> 

A quick comment here before I answer you: Not having the composer for 
track artist would make it impossible to find stuff by-composer for 
music players that cannot make use of the composer tag. It's probably 
premature to do this. (And perhaps that was one of your reasons for 
answering me.)

> 
> I am not sure it will be so easy. If you use the MoveReleaseEdit in it's 
> current state, 

[SNIP]
> 
> The composer would disappear from the release level! This is certainly 
> something I would vote against (assuming I took the time to vote again). 

I promise: I won't. :)

[MORE SNIPS]

> (I am not sure what you would want to do with the orchestra) Anyhow, 
> this is definitely not trivial.
> 

I fully agree. And your remarks to others about age of recording and the 
artistry of recent and living composers are well taken.

As you and others have brought out, there are several problems with this 
proposal, and as I said in my first post, I'm more interested in more 
and better ways to deal with ARs.

I'm sorry that I led you to believe that I all of a sudden was all for 
this idea.


leivhe