Topic: All instruments credit?

I was just fixing up some recordings and I ran into one where one artist is credited as performing "all instruments." The Wikipedia article doesn't stipulate what these instruments are; it just credits the artist as performing all of them. Do we have a special credit for this instance or do I have to put this in the annotation? I know of at least one other recording that has this same "all instruments" AR.

Re: All instruments credit?

I would credit the artist as "Performed", and then note in the annotation the credit for All Instruments.  I did something similar here:
http://musicbrainz.org/release/93097435 … 756ac3a873 though I was able to get a bit more info from the cd art.

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Re: All instruments credit?

The simplest solution could be to allow empty performed instrument(s) AR.

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Re: All instruments credit?

jesus2099 wrote:

The simplest solution could be to allow empty performed instrument(s) AR.

That didn't work. It gave me an error message saying the specific instrument field was required.

Re: All instruments credit?

Sure, that's why he said "to allow" - we don't now, but I'm not sure *why*.

Re: All instruments credit?

Hoowee... back to this issue again.
I'm tempted to add "all instruments" to the instrument tree, but it's been hinted at in tickets like this that it might not be the way to go.
Thoughts/suggestions?

Re: All instruments credit?

Ne has to write a RFC to the mailing list for this ticket you linked :/

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Re: All instruments credit?

He might already have, considering the age of the ticket.

Re: All instruments credit?

I am the reporter of this ticket, and no, I have not written to the ML. :)

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