[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Classical and Release Language

[Leiv Hellebo]

Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> 
> Leiv Hellebo-2 wrote:

(Huh? If I am LH-2, then who is LH-1?)

>> Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>>> My big obstacle in discussing ReleaseLanguage is that I don't have a clue
>>> why we're recording that data, what problem it's trying to solve.
>> I guess you would have problems with distinguishing between Danish and
>> Norwegian, or between various Slavic languages... But with the help of the
>> attribute ReleaseLanguage, for the purposes of MB, you don't have to.
>>
> 
> Yes, I would have problems distinguishing between Danish and Norwegian.
> Absolutely. The attribute ReleaseLanguage would tell me which language the
> release text was in. But why would I care?  If I can't read either language,
> it doesn't seem to matter much if I know which language it is. I still can't
> read it properly.  I still get the text, whatever language it is, in my
> track titles (for pop/rock/everything else outside the CSG), where I stare
> at it and try to make sense of it.
> 
> If we had language-specific alternative Track titles (i.e. translations), I
> clearly see the benefit of putting language tags on those alternatives.  But
> I still don't see the purpose of ReleaseLanguage.
> 

And as Brian mentioned in a previous post it might be useful for 
collection of statistics. These again may (or may not) look interesting 
to prospective collaboration partners or fund providers.

All in all that should be quite a few possible reasons for having the RL in.

Still, I don't know what the decisive reason was for including this in 
the first place. Perhaps only a good idea at the time? (Hint, hint, 
guys: It would be good to have someone who knows MB better than I to 
answer Jim's question(s). As a newbie I found MB harder to get into than 
what I would like, and still after some time, I think it is pretty hard 
to get a good grasp of how and why things are as they are.)


leivhe

(who's slightly embarrassed to have misidentified an ISO standard for 
the RelCountry tag. I guess it should be some ISO 3166 country code, not 
a language code like the 639-1.)