Isn't this handled via relationships?
Artis X composed Work Y would result in listing it under Composer section.

He means on a page like http://ngs.musicbrainz.org/artist/dc7bfdd0-886a-42a8-be7c-5ee7cf75bd22/works
There's a list of artists with nothing indicating what they did.

The list of artist included not only with relationships to the work, but also the artists credited for any recordings related to the work, which is especially confusing. I'd suggest that in addition to adding roles after each artist related to the work, that the artists credited for related recordings get put into a separate list, even if only separated by a little vertical space.

This is now in review at http://codereview.musicbrainz.org/r/1463/diff/#index_header and in for testing at http://test.musicbrainz.org

It's great !
I have 3 remarks.

In http://test.musicbrainz.org/recording/d0a59e21-bca1-4d3d-891e-29f746cd7b6e
Beyond the Realms of Death (live) by Judas Priest is in "Perf." instead of "live perf." (OK in mb.org).

In works page now, we only see one random perf. artist instead of all of them.
http://test.musicbrainz.org/artist/88d8f38f-adb4-48a0-8c1f-ec34f2a675ff/works
Beyond the Realms of Death by 陰陽座 (current cover artist)
The Trooper by Hellsongs (another cover artist)

Perhaps it would be better to keep the unordered list with bullets, in case there are artists with long names that get word-wrapped and confused with the next artist in list.

In http://test.musicbrainz.org/recording/d0a59e21-bca1-4d3d-891e-29f746cd7b6e
Beyond the Realms of Death (live) by Judas Priest is in "Perf." instead of "live perf." (OK in mb.org).

This not really a problem, it's just likely an issue that test doesn't have the same data set as musicbrainz.org

In works page now, we only see one random perf. artist instead of all of them.
http://test.musicbrainz.org/artist/88d8f38f-adb4-48a0-8c1f-ec34f2a675ff/works

Thanks for spotting this! I introduced this bug, and have quickly fixed it. If you check now you should see it will display differently.

The jira syntax is awful with opening quote tags and... opening quote tags to close them !

Thanks for spotting this! I introduced this bug, and have quickly fixed it. If you check now you should see it will display differently.

Would it be possible to have priority to perf. before cover perf. artists in list order top ? ( I know it's a bit more feature than just this ticket but maybe it's ok timing for this)

And what do you think about bullets ?

Looks good!

A couple of thoughts:

1) I might be tempted to retitle the Artist columns Performers, as I think this then makes the reason for the two columns a little clearer.

2) I might also be tempted to restrict the ARs used to populate the Artist/Performers column. To me it seems a little strange to see credits in the Artist column for, e.g. a medley AR. As an example, see:

http://test.musicbrainz.org/artist/614e3804-7d34-41ba-857f-811bad7c2b7a/works

The "Weird Al" Yankovic credit seems a little out of place.

I might be tempted to retitle the Artist columns Performers, as I think this then makes the reason for the two columns a little clearer.

I considered commenting about this on Lukas' original work, but I'm not sure it's entirely true. We extract the artists from artist credits, and do artist credits directly mean performers? For works this may be the case, but I'm not sure where style stands on this one.

2) I might also be tempted to restrict the ARs used to populate the Artist/Performers column. To me it seems a little strange to see credits in the Artist column for, e.g. a medley AR. As an example, see:

http://test.musicbrainz.org/artist/614e3804-7d34-41ba-857f-811bad7c2b7a/works

The "Weird Al" Yankovic credit seems a little out of place.

I wouldn't exclude medley, it's an equal performance (medleys can be split on some CD tracks also in which case they wouldn't be marked as medleys).

I wouldn't exclude medley, it's an equal performance (medleys can be split on some CD tracks also in which case they wouldn't be marked as medleys).

Okay, I was thinking of medley as a work-work AR, not work-recording. It still looks a little odd to me, but I can see its use.

> I might be tempted to retitle the Artist columns Performers, as I think this then makes the reason for the two columns a little clearer.
I considered commenting about this on Lukas' original work, but I'm not sure it's entirely true. We extract the artists from artist credits, and do artist credits directly mean performers? For works this may be the case, but I'm not sure where style stands on this one.

How about Recording Artist, perhaps paralleled by Work Artist if Writers ever become inaccurate.

Thanks very much Oliver, the fix is really great, I love it — whatever the columns will be eventually called, I consider this fixed in a very nice way !

Most of the credit has to go to luks really, he did most of the work, I just added the parenthesis/roles.

Regarding the choice of what to display, we don't seem to be getting anywhere discussing it here, but I think we should ship in this form and if it's showing a lot of confusing information, then we can open a new ticket later.

Thanks Luks then ! VERY MUCH !

Just a notice, when we have one song-writing artist, sometimes it's composer, lyricist and sometimes it's lyricist, composer :
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/1f245b43-f9ba-4d02-a70b-cd08a99cd1c9/works
ひまわり 浅井健一 (composer, lyricist)
フリーダム 浅井健一 (lyricist, composer)