[mb-users] Using Artist Aliases

Jason Bouwmeester jbouwmeester at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 21:12:34 UTC 2006


> MBz use of 'aliases' is a bit unintuitive. think of the alias system
> as just a way of grouping inconcequential names with concequential
> ones. Eg, typos, minor variations, abbreviations, etc, can all be
> absorbed into proper names.. Anything you'd actually want to *see*,
> probably doesn't want to be in the alias field, and should be a
> seperate artist (grouped with the performance name AR).

Ah, now that makes more sense!

Thanks...



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