[mb-style] Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Feb 12, 2008 7:47 PM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Don't worry, you did not :-) But since no one seemed to answer to this
particular point, I wanted to make sure...

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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