Solve or explain the joined / separated artist name problem -
Why is Simon And Garfunkel joined? When should this rule be
followed?
Should there be an automatic separator used for the join field?
ATM it defaults to no separator, but this is usually (always?)
not applicable. http://www.discogs.com/help/submission-guidelines-release-artist.html#Adding_Artists
"a comma between them if there is no joiner on the release
itself.". mjb I believe suggested that the slash (/) seems to be
a good default, but pipes and commas are also a possibility.
nik - let's go with a comma, it's less visually distracting for
me and strikes me as less 'loaded'.
Make clarifications under "The Join Field and Artist
Collaboration" section that collaborating artists must be
distinct. So, (artist X) Presents (alias of artist X) is not
considered a collaboration; it must always be split. This topic
was raised in discussion at http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/186422 and the
proposed guideline change is at http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/186638
How To Interpret Artist Names As Release Titles When Listed On The
Cover - "There is no limit to the number of artists that can be
listed as 'Main Artist', but the release itself has to show the
intention that the artists are to be taken as the main artists on
the release (or to list the artists in a way that doesn't allow us
to differentiate)." http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/174545 http://www.discogs.com/history?release=1361130
How to title split releases without a given title.
No explicit forbidding of slash-separated titles for
non-double-A-sided singles without sleeves, should there be?
I think yes! What's the difference if there is no sleeve? In practice
this would mean that a non-double-A-sided release will be submitted with
only title A if there is a sleeve and with 2 titles if there is not.
What's the use of that? Seems confusing to me... (marcelrecords)
multiple cat#s for a single item intended to be sold under
different #s in different territories (such as on many WEA
releases in UK+Europe), regardless of whether corresponding,
single-cat# items exist for each territory
extra cat#s added by distributors (via stickers, stamps, custom
printing, or not mentioned on the release at all) - interesting
cases include EFA, Caroline, etc., which call into question
where to draw the line between distributor and licensee label
cat#s in typographic artwork, including those possibly
accidentally left on an item by a licensee label
Explain matrix numbers and their use as catalog numbers
What is the difference between a label cat#, distribution cat#
and distribution code? One difference is that the codes are
repeated on seemingly unrelated releases, but they do change.
Why should they not all go in the cat# field?
http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/131564 add the situation
of jamaican matrix numbers to the next guideline revision (as in:
DSR... are not catalogue numbers but matrix numbers, please add them
to notes blahblah)
Typo fix: The "by released" needs to be replaced with "for release"
in this sentence: "DIDX - Recordings pressed by DADC by released on
non-Sony-affiliated record labels."
Needs a few
lines (and a picture) to explain that commercial, consumer-audio
CDRs (a.k.a. audio-CDRs) can very well include a barcode and etched
numbers, but no IFPI codes. A serial number, however, is (seemingly
without exception) always printed in a "dot-matrix"-like format on
the inner ring.
CD versus CDr - Pressed CDs often are visibly different in their
data-containing portions, so remove the following blanket statement
from the guidelines: An additional method to discern if the media
you hold is a pressed CD or CDr is to look for a difference in the
hues. A CDr that is burnt will display a ring where the data has
been written. The ring starts from the inner hub, and will be a
lighter shade than the rest of the CDr. The less that has been
burned, or the shorter length of the stored audio, the smaller the
burnt circle will be. You cannot tell how much data is stored on a
pressed CD by this same method, as the whole underside will be a
consistent color.
Why are styles required for the electronic genre and not for the rest?
Proposal - remove this requirement or even extend it to the other
genres.
9. Credits
Need to work on the page indexing! "Indexed credit roles (ie.
Producer, Mixed By) that entered in the same field with other
multiple roles, are not indexed into their proper section on the
artist page." http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/156801#2026541
Write guideline regarding how to credit complex / duplicated /
subset credits, for example (Artist & Artist's "The Group" Remix) -
discussion at http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/159392
Resolve conflict between stated "Forbidden content for the release
notes... Excessive cosmetic text formatting using HTML codes. Using
italics or underline when referring to album titles is fine, but
attempting to mimic every aspect of typography on the packaging is
overkill" and http://www.discogs.com/help/submission-guidelines-general-rules.html#Formatting_Unicode_HTML
