[mb-users] Does subscribing to a label have any results?

[Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen]

Per Øyvind Øygard skrev:
>On Fri, 02 May 2008 23:43:50 +0200, Brant Gibbard <bgibbard at ca.inter.net>  
>wrote:
>>Is it just my imagination or does subscribing to a label not seem to do
>>anything?
>
>I suspect that subscribing to label doesn't work like we think it does.  
>I've subscribed to a few labels under the belief that this would cascade  
>down to releases under that label, but when I think about it that sounds  
>extremely unlikely, although useful. Chances are subscribing to label only  
>yields edits to the actual label entity, i.e. pretty much nothing.
>
>Am I correct in my assumptions?

You are. Even edits such as adding URLs to labels aren't considered 
"label edits" by the system. (This, IMHO, should be considered a bug 
until the below is fixed...)
Check http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/2675 for an example. (Also, I 
have a hard time buying that it won't work with the way the system is 
now - URL adds are listed for artists and releases and tracks, so surely 
they can be listed for labels as well? I can see why the other ARs might 
not belong to the label – though they should be listed with one of the 
labels they're involving...)

>I'd suggest the ability to subscribe to all releases added to a label, but  
>when I think on it in terms of db queries it sounds a bit expensive.

Well, what we need (IMHO) is for edits to be able to "belong" to several 
database entities – this way an "add release" could belong to both all 
of its involved artists and the label(s).
Check http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/884

-- 
Sincerely,
Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>

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