Re: For the love of god, let's sort out this (feat) nonsense

>OK gang, I'm pissed off.
>
>For about the third time in a week, I've come across Mo automodding
>away "collaborative" artists on compilations and in doing so losing
>valuable data, and polluting database values.
>
>http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?object_type=track&orderby=desc&object_id=966605
>http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?object_type=track&orderby=desc&object_id=857331
>http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?object_type=track&orderby=desc&object_id=966605
>
>I'm sick of it.  I want the damned style guide changed, and now.
>
>For the uninitiated, here are my two previous threads on the subject:
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>April '05: http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-users/2005-April/020491.html
>May '05: http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2005-May/000107.html
>
>Once again, my arguments:
>
>1)  ID3 tags and MP3 players (both hardware and software) have a field
>for "Title" and a field for "Artist".  In 99% of cases, we should be
>populating these with the Title and Artist shown on the CD case.
>
>2)  The "put (feat.) in the title" hack was only in place because
>there was no way to link artists to collaborations.  Now there is.
>It's AR.  It works.
>
>3)  In "The Future", we may have smarter taggers, or a different DB
>schema that can assign more than one artist to a track.  But we're not
>in the future, we're in the present.  And presently, the best way to
>store this data, SO THAT IT CAN BE ADAPTED TO FUTURE WHIMS is to use
>AR to specify collaborations.
>
>4)  Deleting collaborative artists, picking one at random, stuffing
>the other in the text Title field ONLY MAKES IT HARDER FOR THIS TO
>HAPPEN in "The Future".
>
>Please, for my sanity's sake, so that I don't want to punch the
>otherwise hugely helpful mo in the groin, can we change the
>styleguide?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rod.
>
>
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