music ontology question:

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

music ontology question:

let "foo" be the class of all music releases where the release is attributed to a single artist

let "bar" be the class of all music releases where the release is *not* attributed to a single artist -- so in other words, "bar" is the complement of "foo"

what are better names for "foo" and "bar"? right now i'm calling them "artist releases" and "split releases", but these don't seem to be terms used by musicbrainz for example https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Terminology

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

note that this doesn't involve the *type* of release so much as the separate ways of tracking them logically. so "foo" (artist releases) includes albums, eps, lps, singles, doesn't matter how many tracks or how long they are. but "bar" (split releases) includes splits, compilations, whatever might usually get lumped under "Various Artists" in less refined models. so https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Group/Type is not exactly helpful here

[trwnh@mastodon.social]

repeating from a different reply chain:

practically speaking in my music library i have most release folders within /Artists/ indexed by artist, which is doable for "artist releases" but not "split releases". for those latter release folders, i have them in a separate folder i call /Splits and Compilations/ and not indexed by anything

i guess this is mostly a weakness of filesystems? i could put all releases in the same flat folder and then abuse symlinks to get my artist indexing, i guess?