Don Redman wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:38:11 +0100, derGraph wrote: > >> I've found a nice definition of musical instruments on >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument: >> >>> Musical instruments are devices designed to produce music [...] >> >> Maybe we could use this definition to not end up with hundreds of >> percussive "instruments" like book, coffee mug, matchbox, oil barrel, >> briefcase, table (oak), table (plastic), ... And we will end having >> such instruments if we add everything someone uses to make music. > > I think this plus Robert's criterion for at least 5 artist using that > instrument seems like a good rule of thumb. With this rule, adding new > instruments should be quicker and need less discussion. >
he said N references to this instrument being used on albums. not 5 different artists. all there "rules" for adding instruments that artist USE are getting quite ridiculous! Just add the frigging things to an alphabetical list as people find the need to use them in a relationship! > What we need to do now, is test Mo's new instrument tree and figure out > how to move the old data to the new tree. the main problem is mapping > the old instruments to the new ones. Does somebody want to write a > script for this? Should we start doing this by hand? for example Mo's > tree could be added as a second tree to the test server (a new attribute > instrument2), and people could try to move things by hand, in order to > figure out how trivial/notrivial this is. > > I realy have no idea how to start. > > DonRedman > > > > --Words that are written in CamelCase refer to WikiPages: > Visit http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ the best MusicBrainz documentation > around! :-) > _______________________________________________ > Musicbrainz-style mailing list > Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
