You have it right. Swing as it’s generally known in jazz and popular music is 8th note swing. 16th note swing is a very different sound that, for me anyway, associates more with an old school hip hop feel. Maybe it’s because their drum machines all gave them 16th note swing! I’ve always thought it was weird to not have 8th note as the default or at least an option. But I do more straight time stuff anyway. Notation, as you suggest, can give a general idea of swings and shuffles, but even a jazz chart is just going to notate it in straight time and tell you to swing it. Or shuffle it. How it comes out is a matter of interpretation.
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