[mb-style] Recording/track distinctions

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2011/7/21 Lukáš Lalinský <lalinsky at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria
> <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2011/7/21, Lukáš Lalinský <lalinsky at gmail.com>:
> >> Oh, and to give an example of recording/title artist credits.
> >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/611e82cc-5db0-39d0-b47e-df42b75c748c
> >> http://musicbrainz.org/release/676c4e84-2d7d-3b32-a4fd-c686dca083ad
> >> The US release should have Yaz as the artist credit, but it would get
> >> normalized to Yazoo, which is not necessarily what you want.
> >
> > I believe this is a different issue (although related). Doesn't this
> > have implications in the code itself? Does MB actually allow to link
> > to an alias?
>
> Artist credits and track titles are essentially release-specific
> aliases for artists and recordings.


Ok. Then I suppose that you expect US pro-as-printed users to ask to link to
Yaz. And you would rather tag it to Yazoo? Am I correct? Once again I can
understand both positions. In this situation, we could imagine some option
to fetch the "fundamental" Artist (Yazoo) instead of the immediate one
("Yaz").

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Frederic Da Vitoria
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