#musicbrainz-devel

JonnyJD_: are they percent encoded? (does it break either way?)

kuno: they get encoded correctly

%28 %29

Our documentation says: The recommended format is "application-version", where version does not contain a - character.

so I think the intent was that the application name is an identifier without any spaces and without much punctuation, but we don't spell that out :)

yes, so using parentheses isn't the first thing to try, but also not really forbidden

I also couldn't find a place in the code where anything is really checked, but I am neither a server nor a perl guru

JonnyJD_: finding anything relating to web service validation is akin to wizardry

so I wouldn't worry

and "(" is the only punctuation I could find that fails so far (still testing more

JonnyJD_: do you get an error message from the web service?

It doesn't look like we validate the ?client query parameter at all

(nor the user agent)

ocharles: nope, just 400 bad request

what request are you making?

I only looked at POST /ws/2/release

submitting isrcs (recordings it should be)

no validation there either, that I can see

minus and opening (not closing) parenthesis are the ones not working, semicolon, space, underscore, bracked.. all work

no closing parenthesis also fails

single quotation marks also fail, but that isn't very suprising

I'll open a ticket. Even when documenting that only certain characters are allowed, we should know which and possibly why

created a ticket: MBS-6974

can be tested with musicbrainzngs, I added a small test script

navap: ping

hiy guys

i want to add a producer to a release but it cannot find the name in the DB so i cannot add that relationship

what do i need to do?

add the producer as a new artist.

just saw it is not the producer of the pieces but the whole release

then add a new artist and relate the release to the artist

thx

done

i feel bad giving away all my CDs

there is so much information on the sleeves etc.

inmlays

but im not really willing to enter it all...

ripping and tagging is already some job ;)

is there any way how the info can be deferred from somewhere else?

maybe take pictures of the backs of the CDs

?

and post them among cover art?

mostly for tagging reference.

for cover art we'd need a higher quality scan

but where should i post it then?

glad if I can be of service ;)

flickr?

dont have that :)

not hard to sign up. :)

and its free

I jsut uploaded pictures for one release

from pics that i made with my cell

i thought better than nothing!

the cover art archive does not discriminate on quality - data > no data

so don't feel you *have* to scan that artwork

there's nothing stopping our editors from voting no though

of course they could vote no

but i still believe better capturing that info somwhere and not lising it

i agree

somewhere not losing i meant to write

ok

same page then

good

hm, not too bad

my gut instinct would be to put things on a sheet of white paper though

(although my gut instincts once told me to scan things with a sheet of pink paper behind and after doing it I had no idea why :P)

rolf at sheet of pink paper

haha

you are right

shoudl have used white paper

!

I guess you all know that meme about putting something on a wooden table, taking a picture, scanning the picture, printing it and sending it per snail mail

show it to us

:)

okay, it was a bit different (worse)

Sometimes with pics, you get the light washing out the writing, as the the Medium pic.

ok ok

im not going to redo the pics ;)

:D

lol - just mentioning it, I'm of the camp of some data better than no data.

For cover art, anyway.

yes, me too

and to be clear, taking a picture of something on a wooden table in itself is no WTF, the other steps in the dailyWTF made it one

but "wtf wooden table" is like the short name of that meme

i love the wooden table

all my ebay pics are made on a wooden table

this better?

I would, but I have so much stuff on my tables.. there is no visible wood

used a white paper

and dont judge me by the music

this is nearly 20 years ago

when the discman had not even a skipping protection

:D

Totti: MB wouldn't go anywhere if we would judge editors taste in music

haha

but i am sitting here and thinking

wow...this is what i listened to?

nobody here uses what I assume ;)

anyways, taking pictures with daylight (without flash) fixes some problems with weird colors and visible flash (I know daylight is gone soon for today in the EU)

guess where i am sitting

in an office

so even if the daylight is gone

i got this bright neon stuff

ruaok: pong

I just got done tallying what I needed. :)

Oh nice :)

5B successful hits in 2012 by my count.

does that jive with your numbers?

? :)

Does successful mean you're excluding 4xx and 5xx hits?

yes. I only counted 200s

I see 7.1B total hits and 6.8B ws hits, but that's without any filtering

then that sounds about right.

Dammit, my webalizer parser has stopped working :(

wow. our cost per 1M hits dropped to $4.06.

charging $100 for 1M seems like a good plan. :)

heh

Webalizer reported 5,001,001,727 2xx hits

5,000,992,658

is that I tallied.

the difference is noise.

Where are you getting your numbers from?

webalizer.

Ah okay

I just took the 200 summaries for each month.

Okay. I was hoping you had some better view of the webalizer data other than the html pages on stats.mb

not really no.

ok, I only have to finish the last two sections, but those are pretty quick. I'll hammer those our on monday:

thanks for all your legwork on this, navap.

ok, enough for now. back later.

Nice report.