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Well, it's the same person behind. Even if the artist tried to give a different "personality" to his music over the time, following all his creations is actuall
by ux 14y ago
Well, it's the same person behind. Even if the artist tried to give a different "personality" to his music over the time, following all his creations is actually a good listening experience. The "hey I just want to listen to the musical evolution of this guy" isn't a rare feeling IMO. Grabbing all his nicknames is kind of a problem.
Of course, you have a point, I'm making the problem harder than it needs, and you can just don't care about most of these issues. Hey, that's actually to the conclusion I reached. But still, I believe the current solutions are not optimal if you want to match N songs, store all the related "context" information, or just keep a consistent way of storing them.
- mquander 14y agoBut that's not a problem, either. In my music collection I have, e.g. tags ARTIST=AFX and FILED_UNDER=Aphex Twin. Then when you make a playlist with your favorite music player, you can just sort things by FILED_UNDER, if you prefer. What's so hard about that?
- ux 14y agoInteresting, so you have a way of making the relationship at the end. Now I could start nitpicking about how you decide to make the link to Aphex Twin and not his name (or another nick), and how would you make that decision for any similar cases. Note that I don't consider this issue the main problem, it's just one I hit a few times, and I wasn't able to select a correct solution.
- adamzochowski 14y agoDiscogs tracks Alternative Nicks that artists use, and can help you link songs together. Here is Aphex Twin example: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Aphex+Twin http://www.discogs.com/artist/Aphex+Twin Also, discogs will track which albums were released under different artist tags. Foobar+discogs tagger combination lets you pick, if you want to use most common general name (so all tracks are Aphex twin), or the alternative name that songs were released under (aka: AFX songs stay as AFX). --- This is same issue as a book ''Running Man'' (yes, followed by a movie with Arnold). Was it written by Richard Bachman, or Steven King? How does your public library list book?
- dangravell 14y agoSame for MusicBrainz: 'aliases' http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Artist#Alias http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Artist#Alias
- mquander 14y agoSure, but the answer is you just make an arbitrary decision that feels right. Same thing with name ordering and the other issues you mention. There isn't much benefit to coming up with some elaborate system of rules for these things -- after all, the goal is to create a categorization that is easy for you to find things with, not to generate the timeless perfect metadata which all humans agree is correct.