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This years Christmas gift from SecondHandSongs a redesign of the internal database (and hopefully the last one of this importance!).
In the past we had 'cover' relations between songs, but that was giving us headaches in some cases where one artist recorded it first but the other released it first.
Therefore, here is the new system: we make distinction between works (the sweat of a lyricist or composer) and the performance (the sweat of a performer obviously). An original is now defined as the first performance/recording/release for a work. This means that we can now show separately which performance is the original performance, the original recording or original release. There are also lots of less visible advantages to this, which will ensure that the quality of our data will get even better.
These changes have been tested extensively. We have been working on these changes since several years! Of course there will still be some (many) bugs or problems. Just let us know. We'll be happy to fix them.
Season's Greetings from the SHS team!
Last edit: 2009-12-22 13:02:01 UTC by Mathieu
