[mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

Lemire, Sebastien mail at benji99.ca
Tue Jul 19 10:58:03 UTC 2011


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> My biggest objection to keeping feat. credits and the like in the track or
> recording title is that musicbrainz is a *database* and we would be
> intentionally breaking the database structure.  Having artist info in the
> track title means we aren't using the relational database correctly.  Artist
> searches wouldn't necessarily come out right unless you knew to search in
> the track title, which is entirely counter intuitive.  As has already been
> stated, we *had* to do it that way before because of limits of the database
> structure.  That has been fixed.  So, it seems very logical to me that we
> use the new database structure as intended to store artist info with the
> artist fields, not embedded in title fields.
>
> Jeff
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>
My thoughts exactly

Sebastien
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