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      • srotta
        yllona: Where do you want the link?-)
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      • yllona
        srotta: drop it here, i've got about an hour to burn before "real life" beckons
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      • srotta
        I meant do you want the link to the release or some music company?
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      • srotta
        http://www.emi.fi/julkaisut/49/allaboutveetitheve… That's the release I was talking about.
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      • yllona
        please follow up with an e-mail. [my nick] at gmail
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      • yllona
        srotta: before i click... is it in english? :P
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      • srotta
        Of course not.
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      • srotta
        I'll see if I can find something more legible :P
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      • yllona
        srotta: awww sh--, let me look at this
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      • srotta
        So that's a compilation. That page actually says it was published by EMI Finland.
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      • yllona
        okay, got ya
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      • yllona
        let me take a quick look, gimme a few minutes to get off the phone
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      • srotta
        Yeah.
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      • yllona
        ruaok and luks if you're lurking in the background... MB most definitely needs a "subsidiary" AR... if it doesn't already exist ;)
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      • luks
        it does
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      • yllona
        luks thank you!
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      • luks
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      • yllona
        luks: last i checked (sunday night -- late), i couldn't get that far.
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      • yllona
        i'll go back and look
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      • ruaok
        back in about an hour and a half.
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      • ruaok
        ta ta!
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      • yllona
        srotta: were you able to find veeti & the velvets on AMG?
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      • luks
        AMG usually don't have info about music from outside of the US
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      • yllona
        luks & srotta: veeti, was never released in the US?
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      • srotta
        yllona: Probably not.
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      • srotta
        And no, it's not in AMG 8)
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      • yllona
        srotta: i just foound the english page on EMI... i'm slow, but not stoopid
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      • yllona
        srotta: "has operated in Finland since 1972 signing and developing local artists, marketing and promoting both local and EMI Music’s international artists, and distributing their talent and music to customers."
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      • srotta
        Yeah.
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      • luks
        http://www.esounds.com/esounds/en/ has a very complete EMI catalog, but it's mostly UK-only
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      • yllona
        contact info on this page (in english): http://www.emi.fi/www/english
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      • dmwaters
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      • yllona
        EMI is pretty responsive, and has been "internet positive" for quite some time now -- several years
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      • yllona
        srotta: i'd go ahead a send a polite e-mail. make it as concise as possible... enough detail to get the job done :)
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      • srotta
        Yeah, the problem I'm having here is "what to use as the label", when there are several options.
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      • srotta
        And that's a generic question, not just for that particular release.
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      • yllona
        yeah, it's not an easy question. drop the e-mail. EMI is one of the "good guys"
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      • srotta
        Yesterday we were talking about Herodes, which is another Finnish label owned by EMI. They were independent for about four hours during 1990, but the name sticks in several prominent artists' releases.
      • 2007-04-04 09456, 2007

      • srotta
        Ok, so maybe they were a bit more long-lived, but still :P
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      • yllona
        srotta: include the MB URLs so the EMI folk have "point of reference" -- you have the skillz for this type of communication. just remember, you'
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      • yllona
        *you're *not* communicating with a programmer
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      • srotta
        Hehe
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      • srotta
        Zen Caf�'s albums have Evidence's logo, Fazer Records copyright and "Warner Music Finland" or "Warner Music Europe" in big letters :P
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      • yllona
        and given the Apple/EMI announcement last week... i'll bet you some serious money that EMI is "grossly understaffed". please be patient....
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      • yllona
        okay, gotta scoot (for now). srotta please CC: me on any e-mail you send out, i'll help where i'm able -- you'll need to provide english translation if you choose to communicate in finnish ;)
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      • srotta
        Yeah, I'll probably send it in Finnish and then mail you with results.
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      • yllona
        srotta: purr-fect! :)
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      • yllona
        srotta: one more thing... please mention that MB is an open source, community-developed project. MB is a fully qualified, registered "non-profit" in the US.
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      • yllona
        srotta: you'd be surprised how much difference that makes
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      • yllona
        :-D
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      • srotta
        8)
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        anyone seend rouak lately?
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      • yllona
        BigMcLargeHuge: he just left for "a meeting"
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        ohok
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        i hope i can catch him today, i have a US mirror setup for mb
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      • SenRepus
        nappy time, bye
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      • Jugdish_
        Jugdish_ is now known as Jugdish
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        hey ruaok
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      • ruaok
        hey
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        how do i update this mirror :)
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      • ruaok
        which dataset do you have loaded?
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      • ruaok
        if its from yesterday, then go to:
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      • ruaok
        admin/replication
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      • ruaok
        ./LoadReplicationChanges
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      • ruaok
        and fire that off in a cron job hourly 10 minutes after the hour
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        ok let me try that
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        This is not a slave server!
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      • ruaok
        whoops.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        error it give me
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      • ruaok
        edit DBDefs.pm and change the type to RT_SLAVE.
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      • ruaok
        then drop the functions, foreign keys and triggers.
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      • ruaok
        then run it again
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        how do i drop those?
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      • ruaok
        sorry on the phone
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        Use of uninitialized value in integer eq (==) at ./LoadReplicationChanges line 113.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        Wed Apr 4 17:06:32 2007 : Schema sequence mismatch - codebase is 7, database is 0
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        i guess thats because i didnt fo drop the functions, foreign keys and triggers.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        do*
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      • Jugdish
        luks and/or ruaok: any chance we could have the nifty artist lookup box when specifying an artist filter in an advanced edit serach?
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      • ruaok deflects that question to luks alone
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      • Jugdish
        :P
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      • ruaok
        BigMcLargeHuge: I'm worried that the data import didn't go as it should've.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        probably didnt
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      • ruaok
        can you re-import the data now that you have the type set to RT_SLAVE?
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      • ruaok
        that will probably be the easiest.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        thats what i get
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        i edited the pm file to RT_SLAVE
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        and then tried to run it
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      • ruaok
        oh, you need to drop the existing database and re run the InitDb.pl command.
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      • ruaok
        because initdb does different things based on the database type.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        so ./psql READWRITE < sql/CreateViews.sql again?
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        and the functions one?
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      • ruaok
        you need to DROP the database.
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      • ruaok
        then InitDb.pl --createdb --import <file>
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      • ruaok
        or files.
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      • ruaok
        su - postgres
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      • ruaok
        dropdb musicbrainz_db
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      • ruaok
        exit
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      • ruaok
        to drop the database
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        ok
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        so i need to download that tar again?
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      • ruaok
        if you deleted them, yes.
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
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      • ruaok
        yes, download all except the moderation ones. those are not needed.
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      • ruaok
        grab all the others.
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      • ruaok
        download to say /tmp
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      • ruaok
        then
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      • ruaok
        ./InitDb.pl --createdb --import=/tmp/mbdump*
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        this is going to take a little bit to download
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      • ruaok knows it all too well
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      • luks
        Jugdish: yes -> bugs.mb.org :)
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      • ruaok snickers
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      • warp waves to ruaok
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        ok getting the last one i skipped the closedmoderation one
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        14:57
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        left
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      • Jugdish
        anybody mind voting for these before they expire and fail in 2 hours? http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6633756 http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6633754
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      • BigMcLargeHuge
        still downloading
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      • VxJasonxV
        bleh
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      • VxJasonxV
        could someone provide some insight real quick?
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      • VxJasonxV
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      • VxJasonxV