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MachineOfaDream
The description here is so condescending and quite frankly outdated and ridiculous. Good luck "fixing your tags" if you're scrobbling through something like Spotify. And why does it do anyone any favors to tag your broadway music any particular way? So you can have 500 artists that are a list of actors' names, maybe the composer's names, etc. As if that's helpful to anyone either way.
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foetusized
So, there is no "the actual artist name" for a musical cast recording. Besides the show name or "Original Broadway Cast," what other option is there? Various Artists? That's not an actual artist name either.
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NeoAnjou
I think a lot of the debate would end if the description were made less patronising. The 'do yourself a favor' line really rubs me up the wrong way, and is needlessly hostile. A switch to a more gentle and positive description might actually get people to change their artists, something like: 'Original Broadway Cast' is a generic artist label used for various Broadway shows. Last FM recommends that rather than using the generic cast label changing your tags, to include the actual artist name in the artist field, so that artists can receive the plays they deserver and statistics can be kept clean.'
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PurpleCow17
I could if I wasn't using Last.fm. Since nobody else tags their tracks like that, I would most likely be the sole listener for each and every showtune I own, thus eliminating a large part of the social portion of the site, which is a large portion of what I like. Also - and admittedly this is a less serious issue, and I'd certainly learn to deal with it if I ever did switch everything over - that's an ugly tag, especially for horrifically long cast recording names, such as "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968 London Concept Album)." It also feels like a waste of my available tags - like now I should use the album tag for something else, since it would essentially be a repeat of the artist. There are pros and cons for all the different tagging options but none of them are ideal.
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PurpleCow17
It's nice to pretend there's a simple solution here, but there simply isn't. I'm not a fan of the "Original Broadway Cast" tag (as it does tend to lump a bunch of unconnected shows together) but tagging the composer as the artist is crazy unhelpful for Broadway cast recordings. The plethora of *different* cast recordings of the same show (not to mention composer demos) means that I should have four or five different songs titled "This is the Moment," all listed with Frank Wildhorn as the artist, but all recorded by different singers from different casts. The best solution I've come up with is tagging each individual song by the actual singers performing, which makes MusicBrainz mad but, honestly, it functions as a cover. Why would I tag a cover as being by the original artist rather than the artist singing it?
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liftarn
@Sheikm: Listing by composer is what makes most sense and it's also policy, see http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Musical_Soundtrack_Style It certainly makes more sense that using artificial artists like the album name, location where it was performed or simply as [artist]Soundtrack[/artist] like many do.
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suzicurran
Who's to say that the MusicBrainz way of tagging is more or less valid than the (obviously popular) method that iTunes and various others use? I'd be interested in a serious answer.
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MOVNGFWD
...well, I have attempted to "correct my tags", being the organized freak that I can be... the CDDB has listed my album "Rent..." with this tag, so when I proceed to find the actual artists from the album jacket and then check out these artists on Last.FM, they either don't exist, are not tagged, have no artist description or there are all of 8 listeners...! IMHO, this should at the least support CDDB's album metadata, as this is what MOST of us are going to be happy with! There: my two cents!!!! :)
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Nir_Camasho
v Oh God, seriously, I dont disrespect you but you look like a manic person -.- if you look on itunes "Original Broadway Cast"appears as a correct tag and I buy songs on itunes and I'm not changing my tags :)
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MIROTIC-
Who cares about correct tags? this keeps it all organized. When 104 606 people use the same tag, i don't think it's that incorrect. Lastfm should let us use this tag with our images, and try to get people to understand the difference between Clash and The Clash for exemple, THIS is really a bother. [3] and and stop deleting my photos!! -.-
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mushy_cavendish
I love "Original Broadway Cast" as the artist because it keeps so many different shows under one neat title. Having all those songs named for every performer/composer would just be ridiculous.
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