How about songs with more than two artist? No not songs that have multiple artists. I am talking about songs that were sung by two or more artist. For example Artist A sung his/her version while Artist B made another version, same lyric but different instruments and of course voice.
One apparent example: http://lyricstranslate.com/en/lea-salonga-or-mymp-friend-mine-lyrics.html
You mean covers?
yeah, something like that. And some songs were revived and the one who revived the song becomes associated to the song as if they originally wrote the song
Okay, since we're tralking about covers, the first artist which comes to mind is Adele. She's done many wonderfull covers, some resemble the instrumental part of the original, some are different, but here are some I like. :D
Wonderful covers indeed ivank23 but actually I'm talking about some kind of issue here. Posting covers here in lyric translate results duplicates. I'm suggesting that besides the original artist of a song, artist with covers of that song should be listed too like "Artist with Covers/Also sung by:artist A, artist B". Sorry I should have mentioned earlier
Yep, a misunderstanding, you should have mentioned it earlier, ineed. :P
You're saying when the same song is posted under two different artists, right? I don't know if there's a certain "rule" for that, but I think the songs (ought to) get merged into one, under the artist who had originally sung the song.
There are also covers with slightly different lyrics than the original.
So I think it would be better to connect these lyrics in a way instead of merging them.
Also adaptations and parodies could be connected in that way.
Do songs with a same name under different artists automatically merge???
I never noticed that, but if it happens, it most certainly is a problem.
I think Sciera offered a great idea - the users should be able to link songs together in cases such as: covers, remakes or any other justifiable common ground.
Regarding the latter, I happened to stumble upon two, or more, songs that use the same text but different parts of it - so I think these should be linked as well for example.
Great suggestions from Sciera, I agree it would be more practical to connect the lyrics than to merging them.
Thanks, but it is not genuinely my idea - it's one of the ideas that were brought up months ago but not carried out yet.
And, no, they don't merge automatically but maybe some were merged manually by admins in the past, I don't know.
Everyone of you who participated in this topic, could we instead use this one? TrampGuy compiled some general ideas for the site and I'd like to sort everything related to metadata into the same topic.