[mb-users] Dates in Performance ARs

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Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> 
> Ok, so these fields weren't meant to be used this way. Now, although
> this is bad programming practice, is there a reason not to use them
> this way in this AR? I mean, if these dates are meaningless for
> performance ARs, why not use them this way if someone is patient
> enough to do so? If these dates aren't used elsewhere, I don't think
> we would be breaking the database. There are no fields to store
> recording dates, so we wouldn't be repeating something else. And the
> recording dates wouldn't be necessarily be the same for all performers
> (although I agree that in the vast majority of cases they would),
> Winton Kelly would have performed only on 1959/03/02 on
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/7d7ebace-0e5a-43c2-bd6d-18b5f35bed0b.html
> (check the link to wikipedia)
> 
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First off I think we should have a field for recording dates, but that is
indeed another issue.
Your Wyton Kelly example is not valid for this circumstance as his
performance is for one track ONLY, and not the entire release
To go back to the original edits in question, do we know for sure that Joey
DeFrancesco didn't perform his Hammond Organ on the 4th only, and the rest
of the recording was layed down by the other two on the 5th?  or the other
way around?  These are stated as facts yet are very sketchy in nature and
could easly and will often be incorrect if we start allowing dates like this
in for instrument performances without detailed recording schedules (and
where are those available beyond the odd Davis and Coltrane?)... so to put
another spin on this, I don't like the data as it is not verifyable.
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