[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)
David K. Gasaway
dave at gasaway.org
Thu Mar 6 04:38:57 UTC 2008
On 5 Mar 2008 at 17:07, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
> This would mean covers linking from sessions back to the originating
> artist - but not the inclusion of every cover within the works list of
> the covering band. As we can't actually make that link yet - lacking
> session entities - I would think it makes more sense to still link from
> the instance (and eventually the track masters) back to the originating
> band's work list. That way, when we do eventually have sessions, we're
> only modifying the AR to add in the session, rather than having to
> actually relocate all the ARs for the cover work.
NGS stuff aside, the point I was making was that if you don't want to
have covers in the work lists, then you have to either:
1) Link all covers back to the original composition (losing any cover-
to-cover provenance in the process).
2) Allow track-to-track cover ARs.
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