pingupingu: what university are you with? It'd be great to have it in our free non-profit section!
2017-02-22 05321, 2017
kepstin
ruaok: for devices on battery, you normally expect to batch scrobbles to reduce power usage
2017-02-22 05331, 2017
kepstin
so you have "sort of liveish multi-scrobbles"
2017-02-22 05339, 2017
Zastai
well I'm not sure why a client couldn't batch scrobbles, and it seems odd to call that an "import"
2017-02-22 05343, 2017
kepstin
which i guess for the moment you use archive for :/
2017-02-22 05357, 2017
kepstin
er, import
2017-02-22 05303, 2017
ruaok
ah, interesting use case. interestingly enough this was all espoused by the former last.fm founders. :)
2017-02-22 05315, 2017
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ruaok
can you open a ticket and then I'll follow up with alastair about this? he was there too
2017-02-22 05345, 2017
kepstin
and if you're using import to handle live or near-live stuff anyways, why not just do single-track import instead of having a separate api for single track
2017-02-22 05332, 2017
kepstin
(last.fm doesn't support historical imports via api, they reject anything dated more than about... 2 weeks? back)
2017-02-22 05302, 2017
kepstin
which bugged me when I used my ipod with the rockbox scrobble log, since sometimes I went longer than that without uploading the scrobbles
2017-02-22 05310, 2017
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2017-02-22 05320, 2017
reosarevok
oh btw ruaok: I made my bot an autoeditor for the spotify URL changes, I can switch it back later if preferred though :)
2017-02-22 05320, 2017
ruaok nods
2017-02-22 05353, 2017
ruaok
ya know, the style BDFL has gotta have some benefits, no? :)
2017-02-22 05300, 2017
reosarevok
heh, yeah, I was reading that reddit post about how it's harder to scrobble now and I was like "these people never had to deal with offline ipod scrobbles, did they"
2017-02-22 05336, 2017
kepstin
unlike any of my phone apps, the rockbox scrobble log included recording mbids :/
2017-02-22 05341, 2017
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2017-02-22 05318, 2017
kepstin
(I still love how there's some artists - e.g. MOSAIC.WAV - where you couldn't scrobble them at all on last.fm - unless you had an mbid in the scrobble, which overrode some of the other checks)
Is there anything special I need to know about making an account for wiki.musicbrainz.org/?
2017-02-22 05337, 2017
kepstin
Quesito: it's a completely separate account from all the other musicbrainz stuff, no shared credentials. There'll be a popup box after you submit credentials - make sure you read and follow the instructions in it.
2017-02-22 05356, 2017
SothoTalKer
if you use the chrome webbrowser it will nicely hide the important part of the message ;)
2017-02-22 05313, 2017
Freso
samj1912: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-991 - I'll try and remember to come back and flesh out the description a bit later, when I'm not on plane wifi and about to run out of juice on the laptop. :)
2017-02-22 05313, 2017
BrainzBot
PICARD-991: Allow submitting AcoustIDs for matched Recordings
2017-02-22 05316, 2017
kepstin
SothoTalKer: oh, wow. we might want to reword the message then
2017-02-22 05318, 2017
kepstin
(it's already been reworded a few times in an attempt to make it more obvious to people)
2017-02-22 05344, 2017
Freso
kepstin: The message is not shown at all.
2017-02-22 05347, 2017
Quesito
thank you kepstin....still not working...will swtich browsers perhaps...I'm not on chrome...
Oh, wait, not the same problem (based on the screenshot)
2017-02-22 05323, 2017
reosarevok
ruaok: by being less lame and hoping someone not connected to us improves it? :p
2017-02-22 05326, 2017
kepstin
CallerNo6: from the screenshot, that should have been closed, yeah. But we should open a new ticket for the new chrome :)
2017-02-22 05343, 2017
ruaok
what are their rules on not connected?
2017-02-22 05345, 2017
CallerNo6
Exactly, was looking for an open one.
2017-02-22 05347, 2017
Quesito
ruaok: wow. we need to do some work.
2017-02-22 05359, 2017
ruaok
Quesito: contractors of the foundation are not allowed to.
2017-02-22 05359, 2017
SothoTalKer
ruaok: find a wikipedia editor not involved with metabrainz and let they edit it
2017-02-22 05312, 2017
SothoTalKer
them
2017-02-22 05322, 2017
Quesito
right.
2017-02-22 05359, 2017
kepstin
the tricky bit is of course finding sources for info that aren't either taken directly from metabrainz sites, and aren't original research (e.g. contributer directly interviewing metabrainz people)
2017-02-22 05314, 2017
reosarevok
kepstin: the article claims to contain info directly from us anyway :p
2017-02-22 05334, 2017
SothoTalKer
direct information from a website is not a big deal.
2017-02-22 05348, 2017
SothoTalKer
third party sources are always better, trhough
2017-02-22 05350, 2017
SothoTalKer
-r
2017-02-22 05356, 2017
reosarevok
legoktm: who isn't allowed to edit our page? Our paid workers, obvs, but anyone else?
2017-02-22 05303, 2017
reosarevok
(er, in Wikipedia that is)
2017-02-22 05349, 2017
SothoTalKer
is mr. doctorow still a key people?
2017-02-22 05355, 2017
Quesito
yes
2017-02-22 05356, 2017
ruaok
kalman filters hurt my brain. anywhere here ever used them before?
ruaok: metabrainz got no coverage in the media. which is BAD. not much notability ;)
2017-02-22 05354, 2017
SothoTalKer
blogs don't count.
2017-02-22 05328, 2017
ruaok hates wp's notability rule
2017-02-22 05355, 2017
SothoTalKer
the english WP is rather lax on that issue
2017-02-22 05356, 2017
Quesito
who is the admin of our wiki?
2017-02-22 05320, 2017
SothoTalKer
the german WP. full of "notability nazis" =X
2017-02-22 05321, 2017
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kepstin
there isn't really all that much to say about metabrainz tbh, i'm actually kind of surprised it's not just included as a subtopic on the musicbrainz page
2017-02-22 05305, 2017
Quesito
SothoTalKer: the cake got a lot of press...
2017-02-22 05345, 2017
reosarevok
SothoTalKer: enwiki removes a lot of stuff for not being notable too. Although frwiki is my favourite, they consider MB links spam
2017-02-22 05358, 2017
SothoTalKer
Quesito: google news did not show many results :)
2017-02-22 05327, 2017
SothoTalKer
reosarevok: maybe MB should consider FR:WP links spam ;)
