Re: [mb-users] Label images
Tom Crocker <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:44:48 +0100
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--===============1871735664== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04440252ffa2ad050164764c --f46d04440252ffa2ad050164764c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 24 Aug 2014 18:02, "Per Starb=C3=A4ck" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I look through the list of cover art types, > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art/Types , and am surprised there > isn't one for just the label. > > When I see illustrated lists of 78s normally pictures of just the > labels are used, like at > > http://78rpmrecord.com/labelview.cfm > http://ellingtonweb.ca/Hostedpages/DoojiCollection/DoojiCollection-1939-40.= html > http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/artist/ella-fitzgerald > > to take a few random examples. That's what I would prefer as the main > image for a vinyl release that doesn't have a cover image. The closest > thing is "Medium" which is described as > > > The medium contains the audio recording, for a compact disc release it is the > compact disc itself, similarly for a vinyl release it is the vinyl disc itself, etc. > > That's good for cds, but for most vinyl releases most of the image is > uninteresting and it makes it harder to see the interesting part. For vinyl I've always added the interesting part of the medium and marked it "medium". I don't think a different type would be useful -- CDs can have paper labels as well as being directly printed/etched and vice-versa for vinyl. Perhaps it would be useful to mention the labels in the description though. --f46d04440252ffa2ad050164764c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p dir=3D"ltr"><br> On 24 Aug 2014 18:02, "Per Starb=C3=A4ck" <<a href=3D"mailto:p= [email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > I look through the list of cover art types,<br> > <a href=3D"http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art/Types">http://musicbra= inz.org/doc/Cover_Art/Types</a> , and am surprised there<br> > isn't one for just the label.<br> ><br> > When I see illustrated lists of 78s normally pictures of just the<br> > labels are used, like at<br> ><br> > <a href=3D"http://78rpmrecord.com/labelview.cfm">http://78rpmrecord.co= m/labelview.cfm</a><br> > <a href=3D"http://ellingtonweb.ca/Hostedpages/DoojiCollection/DoojiCol= lection-1939-40.html">http://ellingtonweb.ca/Hostedpages/DoojiCollection/Do= ojiCollection-1939-40.html</a><br> > <a href=3D"http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/artist/ella-fitzgerald">http:= //www.45worlds.com/78rpm/artist/ella-fitzgerald</a><br> ><br> > to take a few random examples. That's what I would prefer as the m= ain<br> > image for a vinyl release that doesn't have a cover image. The clo= sest<br> > thing is "Medium" which is described as<br> ><br> > > The medium contains the audio recording, for a compact disc relea= se it is the > compact disc itself, similarly for a vinyl release it is = the vinyl disc itself, etc.<br> ><br> > That's good for cds, but for most vinyl releases most of the image= is<br> > uninteresting and it makes it harder to see the interesting part.</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">For vinyl I've always added the interesting part of the = medium and marked it "medium". I don't think a different type= would be useful -- CDs can have paper labels as well as being directly pri= nted/etched and vice-versa for vinyl. Perhaps it would be useful to mention= the labels in the description though. </p> --f46d04440252ffa2ad050164764c-- --===============1871735664== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users --===============1871735664==--