#musicbrainz

so busy in here tonight

jwatk03: y0

hey

what's shaking?

you watching cardinals/cubs game?

nope, i'm trying to setup the mb directories so I can create my patch for the mb client library...

coo

cool, tomb raider movie is on fox channel... i'll watch some of that... ;)

no way, go cubbies!

i'm surprised how good they have been doing, i would have liked to see them play the yankees in the world series last season... cubs vs. yankees

just the thought of the two teams mentioned in the same sentence is enough to make your heart stop

heh

been a cubbies fan forever

finally

i can at least stand to watch them play

even if they don;t go all the way

they entertain and suprise me

Knio is now known as Knio-dinner

Knio-dinner is now known as Knio

think the cubs can still pull it off? it's close

i dunno

we'll see

wood still in, a good sign

he's got a low pitch count tonight

st. louis bullpen could screw up

good game here

Spurs in 6!

what a bunt

good thing it was foul

go cubs go

the pitcher is going to have a long ride home...

yeah

he's bending over, no doubt

rar

jwatk03_ is now known as jwatk03

Knio is now known as Knio-sleep

what should i enter for release year if it's a rerelease of an old album that also includes bonus tracks?

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Personally, I'd say the year of re-release.

Though that may not be the opinion of MB as a whole :-)

but i like release years 'cause they give me a sense of music history =(

using the re-release date would mess that up

well, this neil guy who voted on my moderation claimed that i was breaking the guidelines by using the original release date

but i couldn't find that particular rule on the wiki or on the webpage

neil is kind of always right, almost by definition, on these things.

We ask him to make up the rules that the rest of us follow, style-wise.

oh

I'd suggest you ask neil if the rule in question is actually on the web site or the wiki somewhere.

if not, we'll get it added.

I expect.

See http://www.musicbrainz.org/bio.html, "Neil Cafferkey".

(that is, as long as you're talking about the moderator called "neil". If it's someone else, all bets are off).

5am.

Ick.

Groan.

Gotta go.

later kids!

icepick-away is now known as icepick

anyone here listen to the pixies?

if there are several release dates for an album in the database, which one does the tagger use?

daaavid: the first

and I only know one Pixies song.

i think i just found a bug

i have an album i'm taggin that has several release dates

it puts the first one in the list into the id3 tag and the last one in the filename

Hello.

hello

I found a cd that I have in the database, but the trm it has for some of the tracks don't match what I get when I compute it myself. How do I add my versions?

you can tell the tagger that your tracks are misidentified and then from the unidentified tab, select the song and click on the trm tag next to the track on the bottom pane of the tagger.

Ah - I don't have tagger because it's only avaliable for windows. Can I do the same thing on the website?

no, but you can use the tunepimp application.

You can download it off the site.

ok, I'll have a look at that then

the ui sux, but it's better than nothing.

cool.

I see what you mean about the ui :-)

Is tagger likely to get ported?

hi

any musicbrainz query experts out and about?

birkett: ported, yes. A cross-platform one is in the works.

DcGoodYea: I'm not an expert, but I have the source, and I /might/ be able to help.

Excellent.

great, let me just try one more thing before I ask dumb questions...give me a couple mins

sure

I'm trying to submit some trm id's (usign the tunepimp console client) and it's giving me "Submit error: Unknown user." whenever I try, but the username and password I gave it are the same as the ones I signed up with...

birkett: check which server it's using.

it might be using the test server by default.

there doesn't seem to be a command to show the server it's using, but I can change it. What's the correct server address?

if you type "?" it shows the current options

e.g. for me it says:

u <server name> Use MB server (test.musicbrainz.org)

(as well as lots of other output)

oh, sorry. I thought test.musicbrainz.org was an example :-)

that's the current setting.

remember, the UI sucks :-)

heh

you know if the windows version will work in wine? It has to be better than this...

I don't know much about operating Wine. I've heard it can be done, but have no idea how.

ah. I'll give it a go.

well, it just seems to give me an error and then die, so never mind :-)

are there in examples around of query code? for example, I used the MusicBrainz.MBQ_FindArtistByName to find the artist, now I want to loop through the result set, getting each records name...

I try using MusicBrainz.MBS_SelectArtist, but that doesn't seem to be working for me

I don't know offhand; I'll see what examples I can find, and get to you.

great

thnx

i figured it out djce

cool.

orogor_ is now known as orogor

Pipian: you around/