#musicbrainz

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getalbumbyid returns the album artist id but not the album artist name?

it doesn't?

maybe the depth is set too low?

it returns artist elements only with depth 4+, for albums

well, there's no entry in queries.h for it

lemme try higher depth

i'm pretty sure there is

use depth 4, MBQ_GetAlbumById and then MBE_AlbumGetAlbumArtistName

MBE_AlbumGetAlbumArtistName undefined here

which version of libmb?

it was added in 2.1.3, i think

2.1.2-2ubuntu3

heh, lovely!

but you can just use "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title"; instead

all the queries are just strings

yeah

i'm still not seeing the artist name in the returned rdf :/

what depth are you now using?

heh, but your string works

so i'll shut up

flamingcow: there are not inside the mm:Album element

only the ID is there, the data are below

gotcha

so, right now i have code that does one MBQ_GetAlbumById for ASIN and album artist + id

then does one MBQ_QuickTrackInfoFromTrackId per track

for artist id/name, track name, releases

should i be able to get all that info from MBQ_GetAlbumById with a high enough depth?

yes

with 4 you will get all tracks + track artists

and...releases?

releases for each track?

oh, duh

*brain turns on*

thanks :)

* inhouseuk thinks RDF is short for "Really Does Frustrate" :) <-- haha

luks: is there a way of merging tickets on trac?

nope

bleh!

just close one of them and add links to both

I was thinking the wikiprefix, the shortening of annotations and the link type enhancements could be dealt with all on the same enhancement ticket

they are all directly related to the same code

well, i *personally* think the wikiprefix one is wontfix

wiki formatting in annotations is not supposed to be html

and it should primary interact with the main wiki

so using wiki.mb.org as prefix is right

it was unexpected behaviour for me

yeah, but people don't see it as being a wiki. They see the wiki formating as a method of adding links and text layout

I wouldn't expect /relative/link.html to go to the wiki

because I'm looking at the domain musicbrainz.org

but it's not html!

i would expect it in html

it's not a wiki either

it *generates* html :P

neither are the rest of the text inputs like edit notes

so, interwiki linking is the best possible way to do that

i think the prefix should stay as is

it saves even a couple of chars and removes the need for square brackets.

er...

but these are links I did with square brackets...

so, its currently not handled in the code... check the annotation.pm module if you don't believe us

nikki_: "I wouldn't expect /relative/link.html to go to the wiki" <- i can use the same argument :)

i wouldn't expect WikiName link go to http://mb.org/ :)

the annotations are just shown as text boxes, users don't know they have wiki formating generating the links when displaying them

why would you expect /relative/link.html to go to wiki.musicbrainz/relative/link.html?

+.org

why would you expect relative links work?

because I didn't expect it to make absolute links

I just expected it to turn the [/something blah] into <a href="/something">blah</a>

because you think of it as html

which it isn't

it's not a wiki either

the wiki formating in notes/annotations is for formating functionality, it is not a wiki

you can use wither absolute url or wiki name

either

why would you want to use an absolute url when the context changes? wiki pages are always going to be on the wiki. artist and release links are on the 'local' mirror/server

I just find it hard to see how the annotations and the wiki are linked, other than the annotations use a wiki syntax similar to but not the same as the wiki

yes, it uses wiki formating for enhancement, but it is not a wiki

it could have just as easily used embedded html to do the same thing

and other than those "this is a special purpose artist" type links, I don't really recall seeing links to the wiki

so much time is wasted on discussing things that can be fixed in seconds

http://blog.musicbrainz.org/archives/2006/01/se... - "Wiki formatting in annotations"

it doesn't say annotations are now integrated into the wiki

Aankhen`` ?

catmo: Hi.

heey Aankhen

what you wanted?

catmo: I was wondering how come you changed the entry for Anuradha Paudwal to Devanagari script?

is it possible that there is no PUID for a fingerprint?

i mean, even without metadata

eeeerrh because it is?

catmo: Wha?

what exactly do you mean now?

like the album?

The artist name.

oh?

shoudn't it be in her proper script?

I'm not sure, but I think she's a South Indian singer.

its in Devanagari script on the release

hmm!

Which would make her native language Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, or some such thing.

that's right..

I was just going t ohead into the shower.. can I ask you to research this thing?

I've been trying to find out, but there doesn't seem to be much info about her on the 'Net.

Sure thing.

ooh i see

thank you

also, do you know if http://musicbrainz.org/artist/aacc3885-8c26-468... Kavita Paudwal is her sister?

I believe so.

I think there was something about it in one of the pages I found.

can you gather your notes the and put it in a query for me?

links and so forth

Okey dokey.

I need to shower

thank you!

Have fun. :-)

:D

I've found links saying oriya, marathi, hindi and bengali already

I guess we'd be correct if we say "it has squiggles. we're not sure *which* squiggles but they're definitely squiggles."

LOL.

nikki_: Right on!

erm

<track-list offset="8"/>

the offset starts at zero?

because thet track is track 9 (starting count from 1) on the disc

err

that*

for singles to soundtrack albums (like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JJCE ), would you include the film title in the single title somehow?

deadchip: "is it possible that there is no PUID for a fingerprint?" yes, it is possible

and quite often, especially for new tracks

Shepard: I never do

I usually just put a line in the annotation

http://musicbrainz.org/release/4fb62ef7-c310-45... <- see