[mb-users] Classical editor to the rescue (again)

Frederic Da Vitoria davitofrg at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 08:42:28 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Brian Schweitzer <
brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  [snip]
> >  > For the "fixing", are we doing this according to CSG? Who are you
> going to
> >  > use as track artist here, I don't think you could say you'll use the
> >  > performer for track and the composer for tracks 9 to 15 !
> >  >
> >  Hmm, that's how I would do it? ARs for performers, as usual.
>
> Me too - the context ought to not matter.  Otherwise, every soundtrack
> and classical compilation would become a mess... Otherwise, John
> Williams would be the track artist for the Imperial Death March on a
> Star Wars soundtrack, but 'random orchestra' would be the track artist
> on a compilation that happened to include the Imperial Death March.
>

Ok. It does have some kind of logic in it... I'll probably never own this
release anyhow, so I don't really care :-) Although I may have somewhere a
release with a similar mix of genres. But I suppose you all agree this will
seem very strange to a newbie and ridiculous to someone who does not
understand the classical / non classical dichotomy.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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