[mb-style] RFC: FeaturingArtistStyle amendment

[Brian Schweitzer]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Olivier <viapanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/5/14 Chris B <chris at whenironsattack.com>:
> > - shows that featuring artists can be context sensitive. this is
> > probably the dodgiest part as my example is rubbish (non real world),
> > and i think this might conflict with track merging (do merged tracks
> > have to have the same title?).
>
> Track merging is still in its infancy, and is not coming that soon
> (luks? please correct me if I'm wrong).
> Thinking *too much* about the future is one of the things that
> impaired the style process, so let's rather focus on: we have
> outdated/slacking docs, let's produce better ones that work better for
> what we have *now*.
>
> > - how this does/does not apply to the CSG. i think all CSG 'overrides'
> > should be in the CSG docs rather than dotted around the normal ones,
> > and in any case, that part's for the classical gurus to work out :)
>

I'm in the middle of rebuilding my system, and so don't have access atm to
my CSG notes, but I thought that part of the discussion a few weeks ago
ended up that CSG is not in fact different here?  (The whole
primary/secondary/tertiary artist discussion)?

As I see it, there is no" CSG override", only misunderstanding in how
FeaturingArtistStyle ends up applied within classical; with the composer set
to primary, people end up mis-applying FeaturingArtistStyle and putting
*all* performers in (feat.)'s, instead of ARs, rather than only using it for
those artists who truely are featured.

Also, while we're talking about FAS, I don't want to drag this discussion
off-course, but this sounds as good a time to ask it as any...  Now that we
have ARs, which afaik we didn't when SG5 led to the current FAS, is there
any reason we ought to keep (feat.) at all, rather than migrating to be a
checkbox option on the performance ARs?  Ie, instead of:
"Foo Bar (feat. Tom Smith)" - AR: vocals performed by Tom Smith, performed
by Alice Jones, performed by Ed Wood
we take advantage of a checkbox option, giving:
"Foo Bar" - AR: featuring vocals performed by Tom Smith, performed by Alice
Jones, performed by Ed Wood
(or some such wording)?

Brian
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