Re: [mb-users] Sorting sub-works and more generally ARs

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria <[email protected]>wrote:

> Interesting, I hadn't thought of that: in a Recording-Work AR, the
> "parent" is the Recording. But that doesn't change anything IMO, simple
> numbering would still work.
>

I'd like to point out that it works only in one direction.  When looking at
the work, the numbers would be meaningless, and sorting by these numbers
wouldn't make sense.  I also assume that you mean that the number would
apply only within that specific AR.  Surely, we wouldn't be ordering all
Recording-Artist ARs globally, mixing performance and production credits,
and so on.  Let's take a specific example:

Recording A
- Produced by X, Y
- Assistant produced by Z

These are all the very same AR type, but the last has an additional
attribute applied.  We might want to sort X and Y.  But would we also need
to sort Z with them?  After all, the UI keeps them separate.  So, do we say
that the ordering only applies when there is more than one AR where the
type and attributes (except number) match exactly?  What happens when edits
change those attributes?

Point is, I'm not sure we can extrapolate from here and say this solution
that could work medley could work for ARs in general.

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