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== Purpose of the Special Purpose Artists ==
="Artists" used for handling special cases=


Several special artists exist in the database to deal with unusual cases. There always are some unnoticed bogus artists, but those Special Purpose Artists (SPAs) listed here exist officially, used to handle each of these various types of special case artists.
In a number of cases, it was convenient to create phony artists in the database to deal with some special cases. The reasons for that varied widely. There also (still) exists a number of bogus artists that need to be sorted out, but are convenient to keep for now. All these are SpecialPurposeArtist<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s.


== List of official SPAs ==
Please note that you shouldn't create any new SpecialPurposeArtist all by yourself without prior discussion about it, usually on the style [[Mailing List|MailingList]].


* [[Artist:f731ccc4-e22a-43af-a747-64213329e088|[anonymous]]] - The track artist is both unknown and unknowable. If you are not sure whether to use [[Artist:f731ccc4-e22a-43af-a747-64213329e088|[anonymous]]] or [[Artist:125ec42a-7229-4250-afc5-e057484327fe|[unknown]]], use [[Artist:125ec42a-7229-4250-afc5-e057484327fe|[unknown]]].
Also, before using any of these, you may check [[Release Artist Style|ReleaseArtistStyle]] and [[Track Artist Style|TrackArtistStyle]].


* [[Artist:33cf029c-63b0-41a0-9855-be2a3665fb3b|[data]]] - Used for data CDs and data tracks (additional tracks on audio CDs that contain data other than standard CD audio). Note that [[Data Track Style|data track style]] should also be used to title data tracks.
==List by case use==


* [[Artist:314e1c25-dde7-4e4d-b2f4-0a7b9f7c56dc|[dialogue]]] - Used for tracks which consist solely of dialogue, and which aren't credited to anyone on the release tracklist. For example, the [[recording:1220c6aa-41a5-47b4-99e1-9dd586e491cc|"Royale With Cheese"]] discussion from Pulp Fiction would be correctly assigned to [dialogue], not to "John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson", since the tracklist has no artists for that track. Their performances within the track should instead be indicated by a [[rt:0fdbe3c6-7700-4a31-ae54-b53f06ae1cfa|vocals relationship]] (generally ''spoken vocals'').
===Special cases===


* [[Artist:eec63d3c-3b81-4ad4-b1e4-7c147d4d2b61|[no artist]]] - There is no artist. (Recorded silence or noise, if it is attributed to any artist, should be assigned to that artist and ''not'' to [[Artist:eec63d3c-3b81-4ad4-b1e4-7c147d4d2b61|[no artist]]].)
A number of [[Artist]]s are used for special cases; some of them are directly addressed in the [[Style Guideline|StyleGuideline]]<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s:
* [[Artist:89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377|Various Artists]] (see the documentation about [[Various Artists|VariousArtists]])
* [[Artist:33cf029c-63b0-41a0-9855-be2a3665fb3b|[data track]]] (see the documentation about [[Data Track|DataTrack]])
* [[Artist:125ec42a-7229-4250-afc5-e057484327fe|[unknown]]] (see the documentation about [[Unknown Artist|UnknownArtist]])
* [[Artist:eec63d3c-3b81-4ad4-b1e4-7c147d4d2b61|[no artist]]] (see the documentation about [[No Artist|NoArtist]])


* [[artist:9be7f096-97ec-4615-8957-8d40b5dcbc41|[traditional]]] - Used for writer/composer (and related) credits when the work in question pre-dates any written or recorded version(s), having originally been passed down from musician to musician. Rather than being attributable to one [anonymous] or [unknown] artist/collaboration, this work is better described as having emerged from a musical tradition.
===Informal special cases===


* [[Artist:125ec42a-7229-4250-afc5-e057484327fe|[unknown]]] - Used when a particular artist is unknown, but is potentially discoverable with further research. '''Please do some research before using this artist'''; this artist should '''not''' be used simply as a "lazy easy solution" to an artist you don't happen to know offhand.
Others are used more informally:
* [[Artist:f731ccc4-e22a-43af-a747-64213329e088|[anonymous]]]
* [[Artist:314e1c25-dde7-4e4d-b2f4-0a7b9f7c56dc|[dialogue]]]
* [[Artist:ae636985-40e8-4010-ae02-0f35930f8017|[gregorian chant]]]
* [[Artist:a4b18c9a-9153-489c-b940-fc1076fabc34|[news report]]]
* [[Artist:69944132-a149-427b-9ce3-745894ed23c4|[spiritual]]]
* [[Artist:bb54a77d-238a-4c1c-9680-18dda9bd6d02|[traditional]]]
* [[Artist:eea50253-7a54-4721-9056-b322a0adb5df|Ethnic Music Compilations]]


* [[Artist:89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377|Various Artists]] - Used only for compilation-type releases or release groups containing tracks by multiple different artists. This artist shouldn't generally be used for recordings, tracks or works.
===Incorrect collection artists===


== Subsets ==
Others are kept only to accommodate for the various mis-tagged releases in FreeDB. No releases should be added to them; instructions on what to do with the existing ones can be found in the relevant "artist's" annotation:
* [http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=396890 Bollywood]
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=104 Disney] - has its own wikipage. [[Disney]]
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=10039 Data CD]
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=23323 Musical]
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=36434 MusicBrainz Test Artist]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=287861 MusicBrainz Test Artist] (Yet another test artist) - to test behavior of Various Artists [[Add Release Edit|AddReleaseEdit]] and [[Import Release|ImportRelease]] [[Edit Type|EditType]]<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s.
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=139603 Soundtrack]
* [http://www.musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=233138 Classical]


=== Subsets of [unknown] ===
===Collection artists===


Sometimes it is useful to be a bit more specific when using [[Artist:125ec42a-7229-4250-afc5-e057484327fe|[unknown]]]. You can use one of the following as the artist credit if applicable:
There are some entries in the database that do not represent artist names, but names of collections for which the real artists are not known, or names of software companies. <br/> These should have their composer(s) found and moved/converted there.
* [http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=81321 Alan Lomax Collection, The]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=207120 Allegro Corporation]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=34230 BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=165615 BBC Radio Collection]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=32758 Christmas Music]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=31175 (The) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/f51d121e-b2c4-43fd-85ca-6584198b6ed5.html Dancelife]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/1d8bc797-ec8a-40d2-8d80-b1346b56a65f.html ESPN]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=229967 Hollywood Edge]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=233856 KONAMI]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=327192 LaserLight Digital]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=32604 Lifescapes]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/f3b9d3aa-ff64-46cd-a4c5-9ffabda34993.html Linguaphone]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=42909 Living Language]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=7777 Looney Tunes]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=9306 Nature Sounds]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=135522 Nintendo]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=58529 Pamplin Music]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=124929 Pickin' On]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=306298 Scary Sounds]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=14322 Sega]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/1b479bce-9e24-4866-9f80-c70f9ace6f1b.html (The) Smithsonian Collection]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=85655 The Smurfs]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=37456 Vineyard Music]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=167979 Warner Classics]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=151923 Wordsound]
* [http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=111185 3D Realms]


* [[Artist:0187fe48-c87d-4dd8-beca-9c07ef535603|[christmas music]]]
[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Discussion]] [[Category:Metadata]] [[Category:Artist]]
* [[Artist:66ea0139-149f-4a0c-8fbf-5ea9ec4a6e49|[Disney]]]
* [[Artist:a0ef7e1d-44ff-4039-9435-7d5fefdeecc9|[theatre]]]
* [classical music]
* [soundtrack]

Always include the square brackets ([]) to indicate that this is not the artist as credited.

As with regular use of [[Artist:125ec42a-7229-4250-afc5-e057484327fe|[unknown]]], these should only be used as a last resort, pending further research.

=== Subsets of [no artist] ===

Similarly, it may be useful to be more specific when using [[Artist:eec63d3c-3b81-4ad4-b1e4-7c147d4d2b61|[no artist]]]. You can use one of the following as the artist credit if applicable:

* [[Artist:90068d37-bae7-4292-be4a-704c145bd616|[church chimes]]]
* [[Artist:80a8851f-444c-4539-892b-ad2a49292aa9|[language instruction]]]
* [nature sounds]
* [news report]

They should only be used if the category is applicable, and if you would otherwise use [[Artist:eec63d3c-3b81-4ad4-b1e4-7c147d4d2b61|[no artist]]].

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Status: This is an official style guideline.

Purpose of the Special Purpose Artists

Several special artists exist in the database to deal with unusual cases. There always are some unnoticed bogus artists, but those Special Purpose Artists (SPAs) listed here exist officially, used to handle each of these various types of special case artists.

List of official SPAs

  • [data] - Used for data CDs and data tracks (additional tracks on audio CDs that contain data other than standard CD audio). Note that data track style should also be used to title data tracks.
  • [dialogue] - Used for tracks which consist solely of dialogue, and which aren't credited to anyone on the release tracklist. For example, the "Royale With Cheese" discussion from Pulp Fiction would be correctly assigned to [dialogue], not to "John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson", since the tracklist has no artists for that track. Their performances within the track should instead be indicated by a vocals relationship (generally spoken vocals).
  • [no artist] - There is no artist. (Recorded silence or noise, if it is attributed to any artist, should be assigned to that artist and not to [no artist].)
  • [traditional] - Used for writer/composer (and related) credits when the work in question pre-dates any written or recorded version(s), having originally been passed down from musician to musician. Rather than being attributable to one [anonymous] or [unknown] artist/collaboration, this work is better described as having emerged from a musical tradition.
  • [unknown] - Used when a particular artist is unknown, but is potentially discoverable with further research. Please do some research before using this artist; this artist should not be used simply as a "lazy easy solution" to an artist you don't happen to know offhand.
  • Various Artists - Used only for compilation-type releases or release groups containing tracks by multiple different artists. This artist shouldn't generally be used for recordings, tracks or works.

Subsets

Subsets of [unknown]

Sometimes it is useful to be a bit more specific when using [unknown]. You can use one of the following as the artist credit if applicable:

Always include the square brackets ([]) to indicate that this is not the artist as credited.

As with regular use of [unknown], these should only be used as a last resort, pending further research.

Subsets of [no artist]

Similarly, it may be useful to be more specific when using [no artist]. You can use one of the following as the artist credit if applicable:

They should only be used if the category is applicable, and if you would otherwise use [no artist].

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