This has come up several times, going back to my original proposal for an OTR style, back in April 2008 or so.  The major probloem is that these ought to be treated as NATs by show title, date, and show title, but don't well fit the normal MB structure.  However, especially with more and more radio shows offering themselves (see npr.org) online, my sense is that we'll quite soon see more of these, and not just shows from the 1920's and 30's, but modern shows as well.

Does anyone have any good ideas as to how we can possibly handle radio shows - dramas, as well as non-dramas, if the goal is to handle not only musical audio, but all audio?

Brian

I'll try to put something together.  for DVD-Video rips, last I had the conversation about these in edit notes, I think there also was a consensus that it ought to only be the main program, rather than including all the various (and potentially differing based on the exact DVD regional release) bonus stuff.  Maybe those should be NATs if anything?  I also would agree with the concept in the ticket you linked, though, that DVD-A ought to be differentiated from DVD.  Actually, I would love to see the full  ReleaseTypeRestructuringProposal implemented, but that's perhaps involving some server coding and can wait til after the code rewrite.

Brian

Before I throw out an RFC, I thought I'd just generally ask for opinion on this.

This is something I've fought against about in many edits, including a few I caught while I was able to have only a few hours net access the past months.  (I should note that I seem to typically lose these discussions, with the "common shortened form" typically being voted as more desired than the "full form", at maybe a 10:1 ratio.)  The most recent I can recall is http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=9486029 .  I wanted to wait to bring it up here, though, until I was able to be back online consistently.

I do understand the points raised in these discussions.  Therefore, perhaps there is a need, and some utility, in having not only the artist name field, but a sub "full name" field?  I realize that aliases are sometimes used for this currently, however, in my opinion, aliases are not a functional equivalent, in that they also, and more commonly, are used to store misspellings (thus obfuscating which spelling of a full name might be the correct one), and also are not accessible via the webservice, making it impossible for those like me who might desire to use metadata which does include the full name, rather than some truncated form.

Brian