[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

[Aaron Cooper]

On 2-Mar-08, at 9:11 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Chad Wilson <chad.wilson at gmx.net>  
> wrote:
> Will taggers be disabled from tagging against them somehow? How will  
> we
> vote on their addition/removal?

<snip>

> I don't see what is scary here. A few technical issues should be  
> polished in order to make it work correctly, I agree, but even  
> before they are, it will still be an improvement:
> - no editing? then don't AR to it until you have the precise correct  
> work included.
> - if a tagger uses the work lists, so what? Even if someone inserts  
> a PUID on a work, the PUID will be obviously meaningless, that's  
> all. I agree this should not be possible, but preventing it could be  
> done later. Until then, all the users who will have done the mistake  
> (there should not be many of them anyhow) won't have broken anything.
> - I fail to see how defining the style guidelines for the work lists  
> would be more difficult than the current CSG!
> - this is not really a CSG proposal, since as Brian wrote, the  
> actual track titles would be entered as they are printed. It would  
> even restrict the CSG to the work list, thus allowing users who  
> don't know anything about classical and who don't really want to  
> learn it free to stay in blissful ignorance and still enter their  
> "classical" releases n MB!

I think we should disable PUID submissions to the WorkLists and keep  
the PUIDs associated only with recordings (tracks on releases).  As  
Brian mentioned, it makes sense to move composition/cover/etc ARs to  
the WorkLists while leaving production/recording/performance ARs on  
the recordings.

I also mentioned to Brian last night that it would be excellent if we  
could tag files against the WorkLists.  People who don't collect  
albums can tag their random files against the WorkLists and have clean  
Artist/Title tags.  If one of these people scan their files and  
generate PUIDs, assuming that the PUIDs are associated with tracks and  
the tracks are linked via "X is a recording of Y" AR to the WorkLists,  
they can grab WorkLists rather than the track titles (an option in  
Picard would be needed to choose WorkLists or Track Titles).

As mentioned tagging against the WorkLists would give classical  
editors who want full titles a way to do this with consistency.

-Aaron (cooperaa)