[mb-style] Bach passions and CSG

[Leiv Hellebo]

Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Leiv Hellebo <leiv.hellebo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:leiv.hellebo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It would not take me much effort to redo the SMP (and the Messiah the
>     only ones I've done this for). Still, I am reluctant to do so, because I
>     do think the adding of workname more or less breaks the primary function
>     of the track title: To be useful in a normal listening context (some
>     tracks on this release lasts only seven seconds, so there's little time
>     to decipher the full title and extract the part title).
> 
> 
> Ah, here is the deepest issue, I think: You see MB as a something which 
> should be useful in a normal listening context. I consider it as a 
> database about music (although I agree it is still embryonic). Not much 
> about listening in my position. You see MB as a way to feed Picard which 
> will in it's turn tag your files. I seldom listen to music when I am 
> using MB, and I almost never watch the track titles when I listen to 
> music. I even deliberately avoid tagging many of my mp3 because I don't 
> want to be biased by knowledge. So if  looked at the track title, all I 
> would read would be the track number. I would still be a MB user, even 
> if Picard did not exist, although I am glad Picard exists.
> 

In order to not turn our living room into a library, I have all my music 
on hard disk (accessible e.g. from work). Therefore, the MB titles are 
important to me, and it would be cumbersome to locally redo them after 
tagging. (This SMP download already had good titles, but the artist was 
"wrong": Dunedin Consort, not Bach.)

Like you, I also hope that MB can be useful as a good source of 
information about 1) recordings and 2) music. I still don't think adding 
adding the workname to the track titles for the SMP is very helpful for 
this ;)



Leiv