[mb-style] CSG: track credits as printed?

Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosarevok at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 15:25:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/6/4 symphonick <symphonick at gmail.com>
>>
>> When discussing recording artist for [traditional] in
>> http://musicbrainz.org/edit/14511480 I realised we haven't been discussing
>> track credits yet. Have a look at this section on my Q&A page for
>> tracklists:
>>
>> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:symphonick/Unofficial_CSG_track_names#Track_names_are_subtiles
>> and tell me what you think.
>>
>> Try to use "what's printed" & likely repeat all recording ARs everytime?
>> Stay with the old ways & only allow composer?
>> something better?
>
> The edit is about recording Artist, the question about track credits and the
> wiki section about track names. I'm a bit lost here :-) If I take your
> question literally, I guess you mean ARs, then I think all track ARs should
> be automatically "inherited" from the recording and physically duplicating
> would partially defeat some of NGS's benefits IMO. By inherited, I mean that
> they should appear at track level although they are actually Recording ARs
> and not Track ARs. They are not physically duplicated at Track level, but
> they would appear on the Track as if they were. I can't imagine why a
> Recording AR should not be related to the related tracks too. There could of
> course be Track-specific ARs. If I am right, there would be no point
> entering credits again at Track level.

I don't think there are track-level relationships at all. There are
recording rels and release rels, but not track, AFAIK. On the other
hand, yeah, tracks can be attributed to a different artist than the
recording, so the question is a good one.
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