it’s meant to be a guide for artists on how and what relationships to add when editing their own music in MusicBrainz, including some general editing practices (like how to handle arrangements and preferring recording relationships over release relationships). I’ve already got a few of the basics down, but feel free to add to this~
one common credit I’m not too familiar with is the various Design credits (perhaps @aerozol has some insight?). that is, what’s the difference between Design and Graphic Design? my current thinking is:
Design: includes layout of various design elements
Graphic Design: includes design of design elements, including logo design, font design, pattern design(?)
(correct me if I’m wrong here tho)
edit: I think I am wrong here actually, based on the relationship descriptions:
Design: This indicates an artist who did design for the release. Graphic design: This indicates an artist who did the graphic design / layout for the release, arranging pieces of content into a coherent and aesthetically-pleasing sleeve design.
I’ve also created a new category for guides on the wiki
There is no difference when it comes to how it applies to MusicBrainz, imo they should be merged, see related forum discussion here.
tl;dr: 99.9% of the time “design” is credited, in a MB context, it is shorthand for the more specific terminology “graphic design”. There will be very rare cases where something like “industrial design” is credited, which is another discussion, but probably doesn’t qualify for it’s own relationship.
Most of the time I can only copy what is written in a booklet. If it says “Design”, then I select “design”. If it says “graphic design”, then that is what I pick. I don’t really know what the person did - I can only follow the words on the booklet in my hand
See also “Engineer” \ “Recording Engineer” for the same puzzle.
Not what you asked, sorry, but from the description of what “release” means:
For example, there could be a Bandcamp release and a SoundCloud release.
Wouldn’t these be treated as the same release? (At least generally speaking, unless there are cover art differences etc.) Maybe using releases on different formats as an example would be clearer anyway.
I wanted to make it clear that there could be different digital releases, but yeah, that could probably be worded better (or link to the proper “when to split a release” documentation)
edit: to be fair, I was sure to follow that up with clarification that similar enough releases should generally be merged:
For example, there could be a Bandcamp release and a SoundCloud release. Generally, releases can be merged between different storefronts if they’re similar enough (for example, Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, YouTube Music, etc.)
Sure, I see what you were trying to say, I think. But to me, the overall effect was a bit confusing, with the two sentences appearing a bit contradictory.
