[vorbis] (Classical) Request for Standardization of expanded TAGS

[Greg Wooledge]

Jonathan Walther (krooger at debian.org) wrote:

> PERFORMER
> 	individual performers singled out for mention;
> 	ie, Yoyo Ma (violinist)

How do actually handle this?  Sample CD liner notes:

  PRODUCED BY CHRIS BLACKWELL for Island Records, Inc.
  Associate Producer: Robert Ash
  Engineer: Robert Ash
  Assistant Engineer: Cass Rigby
  CDD Pre-Mastering by WCI Record Group
  Art Direction: Sue Ab Surd
  Photography: George DuBose
  Hairdos by: La Verne
  Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
  Conseilleur: Gary Kurfist

  KATE PIERSON:
    vocals, organ, keyboard bass
    2nd guitar (52 Girls, Hero Worship)
  FRED SCHNEIDER:
    vocals, walkie talkie, toy piano
    keyboard bass (Hero Worship)
  KEITH STRICKLAND:
    drums, percussion, Claire sounds
  CINDY WILSON:
    vocals, bongoes, 2nd guitar (Moon)
    tambourine
  RICKY WILSON:
    guitar, smoke alarm

(These are the first two pages of the liner notes for the first album
by The B-52's.)  So, how do we tag this under the proposal?  Do we use
this:

  TITLE=Hero Worship
  PERFORMER=Kate Pierson (vocals)
  PERFORMER=Kate Pierson (organ)
  PERFORMER=Kate Pierson (keyboard bass)
  PERFORMER=Kate Pierson (2nd guitar)
  PERFORMER=Fred Schneider (vocals)
  PERFORMER=Fred Schneider (walkie talkie)
  ...

Or do we do this:

  TITLE=Hero Worship
  PERFORMER=Kate Pierson (vocals, organ, keyboard bass)
  PERFORMER=Fred Schneider (vocals, walkie talkie, toy piano, keyboard bass)
  ...

Where do we put things like "Assistant Engineer"?  What about
"Photography" and "Hairdos by"?

Finally, what about music that includes samples of other music?  For
example, from Madonna's "Erotica":

  (c) 1992 WB Music Corp./Bleu Disque Music Co. Inc./Webo Girl
  Publishing, Inc. Adm. by WB Music Corp./Shepsongs Adm. by MCA Music
  Publishing Inc. ASCAP

  Shep Pettibone and Tony Shimkin - Sequencing, Keyboards and Programming
  Joe Moskowitz - Additional Keyboards
  P. Dennis Mitchell and Robin Hancock - Recording Engineers
  George Karras - Mix Engineer

  Contains a sample of "Jungle Boogie" by Kool & the Gang, under
  license from Polygram Special Markets, a division of Polygram Group
  Distribution, Inc.  Written by R. Bell, C. Smith, R. Mickens, D. Boyce,
  R. Westfield, D. Thomas, R. Bell, G. Brown.  Warner-Tamerlane
  Publishing Corp./Second Decade Music Co. BMI.  All rights administered
  by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. Used by permission.  All rights
  reserved.

A lot of this is just copyright stuff that most people don't care about
an awful lot, but at the very least I'd expect to be able to include
the TITLE and ARTIST (heh) of the sampled work in some standardized way.


-- 
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