As CompMusic we proposed turning instruments into first level entities in the MusicBrainz database. This means exposing a unique identifier for each instrument.
2012-11-30 33541, 2012
CatCat
uh like we haven't been talkign about that for aaaaages
morning, so I reluctantly tried installing a linux virtual machine from scratch in order to run mbslave (rather than full mbserver)
2012-11-30 33538, 2012
ijabz
After a failed attempt to installed ArchLinux I went for Ubunto Desktop which was very easy to install :)
2012-11-30 33553, 2012
ijabz
but ran like an absolute dog, even if given 2gb of memory
2012-11-30 33537, 2012
ijabz
So I then tried Fedora with LXDE which is so much better, and quite responsive with the default of 768MB of memory
2012-11-30 33506, 2012
ijabz
so I was wondering is it just the Desktop part of Ubunto that is slow or is the whole ubunto flavour of linux rather slow ?
2012-11-30 33529, 2012
luks
I don't find neither version slow, but I've never ran them in a VM
2012-11-30 33559, 2012
nikki
I use ubuntu in a vm with xfce and don't find it slow
2012-11-30 33530, 2012
luks
but you shouldn't really need the gui just to run mbslave
2012-11-30 33536, 2012
ijabz
maybe its just the default desktop it provides then
2012-11-30 33559, 2012
luks
I'm guessing it needs 3d acceleration
2012-11-30 33511, 2012
ijabz
its not just to run mbslave, also for other linux testing
2012-11-30 33528, 2012
aaron_sk
Hi there :) I'm going to attempt to setup a local search server against my MusicBrainz server install (so my API requests aren't throttled by passing through search.musicbrainz.org) The docs here (http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Development/Search_se…) mention that for the search server to work, it requires "a MusicBrainz database with the core data set loaded". Does anyone know what constitutes a core data set?
2012-11-30 33542, 2012
luks
ijabz: I'd for xubuntu then
2012-11-30 33553, 2012
luks
xfce has relatively low requirements
2012-11-30 33500, 2012
aaron_sk
Is it simply mbdump, mbdump-editor and mbdump-derived?
2012-11-30 33519, 2012
nikki guesses ijabz is the best person to answer that
2012-11-30 33544, 2012
ijabz
right, is ubunto better for mbslave thane fedora then ?
2012-11-30 33508, 2012
nikki notes that the last character is a u, not an o
2012-11-30 33543, 2012
ijabz
aaron_sk: yes think so in fact I don't think you need mbdump-editor
2012-11-30 33514, 2012
nikki
ubuntu is probably better for mb stuff since that's what we officially support
2012-11-30 33530, 2012
nikki
but I imagine mbslave works fine with either
2012-11-30 33541, 2012
aaron_sk
Ok, that's great ijabz. I've got those 3 already, so as long as I've met the requirements, I'm good to continue with the HOWTO
2012-11-30 33556, 2012
ijabz
this is mbslave, but I suppose if that what lukas uses would make sense to use that
2012-11-30 33517, 2012
luks
ijabz: I run mbslave on multiple systems
2012-11-30 33532, 2012
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2012-11-30 33535, 2012
luks
so really any unix is fine
2012-11-30 33522, 2012
ijabz
hmm, annoying I don't seem able to get VirtuslBox Guest Additions to work on Fedora, was fine on Ubunto
2012-11-30 33504, 2012
warp
murdos: ok, I'll have a look.
2012-11-30 33512, 2012
warp
goodmorning #musicbrainz-devel!
2012-11-30 33534, 2012
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2012-11-30 33559, 2012
warp
murdos: looks like it crashed or got killed at some point, but didn't continue updating the indexes because the lock file was still there.
2012-11-30 33521, 2012
murdos
ok. could you send me the log if you have it? and then re-index recordings and reenable the updater
2012-11-30 33501, 2012
warp
murdos: what happens if I just start the updater? you think a week is too long for it to catch up?
2012-11-30 33539, 2012
murdos
for recordings? yes, it's way too long
2012-11-30 33501, 2012
warp
ok, I'll stop the updaters and reindex.
2012-11-30 33527, 2012
murdos
but just for recordings, right?
2012-11-30 33555, 2012
warp
I was planning to do it for everything, seems easier.
2012-11-30 33502, 2012
murdos
I'd rather not
2012-11-30 33508, 2012
warp
ok
2012-11-30 33512, 2012
nikki wonders when this ajax uploading thingy will make it to beta
but this fails on line 7 because obviously it does return some JSON :)
2012-11-30 33554, 2012
aaron_sk
Hi all. Does anyone know of a way to get an exact artist match (by name or alias) from MusicBrainz? Using the search endpoint gives me lots of matches, I'm looking for exact matches only.
2012-11-30 33558, 2012
ocharles
but the JSON it returns i can't no ahead of time because it has an MBID in
2012-11-30 33526, 2012
warp
mock MBID generation?
2012-11-30 33535, 2012
warp
(to be predictable)
2012-11-30 33549, 2012
ocharles
that's done by musicbrainz-data, so that's not really an option
2012-11-30 33556, 2012
warp
then you have to write your test to not care about it. possibly check that the mbid is a valid mbid, then remove it from the json (or replace it), and then do further checks.
2012-11-30 33513, 2012
ocharles
yea, i think that's the only real option
2012-11-30 33505, 2012
nikki
aaron_sk: using quotes tends to help, but since it's for searching rather than exact matches, it's not very good at only returning things that match exactly
2012-11-30 33518, 2012
warp
in python I'd probably add some testing features to the library to make the generation predictable for clients of the library.
2012-11-30 33543, 2012
warp
ocharles: but either solution works, and I can't think of anything else.
