Include Song Writers in Database

I am wondering if anyone else is interested in the writers of the music. I for one would like to include information on the musicians who wrote each song. After all the time of the song is included...

e.g.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Studio Album, released in 1970

Track Listings

Line-up/Musicians

Writers
All songs by Ian Anderson

Releases information

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Or, this would not have to be a separate section, the names could be included under track listings.

e.g.

Track Listings

1. Peace - A beginning (0:49)  [Fripp]

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Of course, the downside to this is an increase in the time to enter a new CD.

What do you think?

Ricochet wrote: Oh, God, what an immense re-work that would be.

I guess this is the problem when something becomes really popular. It can lead to stagnation because things seem too hard to change. On the one hand it is fantastic that progarchives has grown to such a huge size, yet this can make re-working's of databases seem immense... Not all items have times next to each track, although that would be better, so not all cds would have songwriter's either.

Ricochet wrote: Usually, on some cases and some collaborations, it would be ideal to state who composed what song. Generally, though, why wouldn't it be better for us to state who's the composer, songwriter, lyricist (etc.) up in the musicians's section of an album?

Problem with this is that not all songs have the same lyricist.

Or it could be....

In Musician's section put track numbers that they had a hand in composing next to their names.





Edited by Terra Australis - February 01 2008 at 08:20

The Discography Editions team is working hard to make sure discographies are made complete in terms of track titles, track times, line up and release information like record company and product id. That's been underway for just under a year now  and it will continue for a while. Imagine the amount of time it would take to start adding these fields.... poor guys 

^ Agree. Of course, it is impossible to update all the albums with songwriters at once and the fine people who work on keeping the archives going are not the ones to do this. The people who enter the CDs (and I have done some) are the ones to enter this info.