#musicbrainz

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      • BrianFreud
        "more tracks than a single, but the entire possible space of the CD isn't used up"
      • SenRepus
        i disagree
      • ill splain in a sec
      • an album is usually 10-14 tracks
      • sometimes a few less
      • a single is usually based on one song
      • 1-3 tracks, sometimes a few more
      • sometimes a bonus "b side" track
      • an ep is neither of those
      • hawke_
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EP suggests that it's always been pretty vague/arbitrary
      • SenRepus
        5ish songs
      • BrianFreud
        Right... but we'e all seen more than our fair share of 6 or 7 track "singles", and 5 or 6 track "albums"
      • SenRepus
        just because there is gray space doenst mean we should merge everything
      • why dont we merge EPs and singles in to albums?
      • its all music
      • hawke_
        the term "releases" kind of does that
      • BrianFreud
        "However, since a CD can carry any amount of material up to around 80 minutes, the distinction between a CD EP and a short CD LP is somewhat arbitrary and is based on artistic and marketing factors."
      • SenRepus
        theres also gray space between promotion and bootleg and official...
      • BrianFreud
        I guess
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      • just seems a term that really is somewhat meaningless when applied to CDs
      • SenRepus
        then there is also the fact that the artists are still calling things EPs and singles
      • *and* the fact that CDs arent the only media we catalog *and* the fact that CDs arent the only media music is released on, even though it is now the most common
      • hawke_
        in my recent experience, singles generally have one or two tracks plus remixes thereof
      • SenRepus: I think the question is, does anyone really care whether a given release is a single or an album or an EP
      • BrianFreud
        single yes
      • EP no, at least me
      • SenRepus
        does anyone care? yes, obviously
      • BrianFreud
        I remap %type% EP to Album locally
      • SenRepus
        people wouldnt be arguing it
      • if they didnt
      • BrianFreud
        no, you make good points
      • just to me, a EP CD is a unuseful concept
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      • SenRepus
        thats understandable :p
      • theres things MB does that i find useless too
      • and things i find usefull they dont do
      • for instance, i keep the date in the track title of live songs
      • even ifits on a live bootleg with the date in teh title
      • Citizen
        hehehe... i know of an artist who releases EPs because the albums still takes several months to be released...
      • BrianFreud
        yeah... I just get annoyed with the single vs ep edit debates :P
      • deadchip
        deadchip is now known as HiFructose
      • Citizen
        okay, now who votes for all my edits? *gg*
      • hawke_
        MBs voting system is very prone to debates and edit flip-flops
      • a perma-vote system would be much better
      • BrianFreud
        --->high quality
      • SenRepus
        i only vote no on edits
      • you dont want me to vote :p
      • hawke_
        BrianFreud: that helps a bit, but not too much -- it just raises the bar for changes
      • BrianFreud
        lol
      • no wonder you never vote on my edits SenRepus :P
      • SenRepus
        id rather be stopping incorrect data... good data will go through on its own
      • BrianFreud
        agreed
      • I spend most of my voting time on newbie add edits
      • not all the voting, but the amount of time invested per vote
      • some are just godawful sloppy
      • Citizen
        it's hard if you don't add new releases every day... all those rules...
      • SenRepus
        you get used to it
      • BrianFreud
        yeah
      • Citizen
        i tend to forget things if i don't do them often
      • BrianFreud
        spending some time really reading the wiki (not just a few pages, but digging in to it) helps
      • SenRepus
        its especially easy if you were already a data nazi for your tags before
      • BrianFreud
        agreed
      • Citizen
        well, i don't have tags... i have CDs
      • BrianFreud
        though, that still left me with 10 gb out of 1 TB that's taking forever to fix/enter :P
      • hawke_
        the problems I have generally come up with disagreements with 1 or 2 people .... typically mo. :-/
      • BrianFreud
        lol
      • see, he and I tend to agree, or at least, be able to persuade the other
      • SenRepus
        hawke_ >.< be nice
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      • BrianFreud
        I only have one editor I normally argue pointlessly with :P
      • hawke_
        Senrepus: nah, it's not that he's wrong by any means; it's typically stuff like should that one marilyn manson track be called "spade" or ♠?
      • SenRepus
        i keep finding typos in album notes
      • Citizen
        0 edits voted down & 0 edits failed for other reasons <--- proud of it ;)
      • BrianFreud
        opinion: The release I'm adding has 16 tracks. 5 are live. Album or Live?
      • SenRepus goes to mar Citizen's edit record
      • I'm leaning album
      • SenRepus
        probably album
      • Citizen
        i would take album also... live is for me completely live
      • BrianFreud
        lol, citizen, you only have 66 edits accepted either
      • it'll happen :P
      • Citizen
        as i said, i'm not that often here
      • BrianFreud
        I don't tend to lose any on a n:3 vote... tends to be 0:1 edits that just expire
      • Citizen
        and now 27 edits are waiting for votes... that's almost the half of my accepted edits... *g*
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      • SenRepus
        so much for using picard :(
      • BrianFreud
        http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6966606 - tracks 6 thru 9 ought not to have "(Unreleased)" in the titles
      • SenRepus: ?
      • SenRepus
        i cant tag in utf because of my out of date os
      • BrianFreud
        lol
      • SenRepus
        the program freezes when i set it up to use latin
      • BrianFreud
        what os?
      • SenRepus
        windows ME
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      • BrianFreud remains the champion of chatkill!
      • BrianFreud
        lol
      • SenRepus
        i was tagging
      • BrianFreud
        ouch, yeah, no unicode support
      • though I wonder if, say, winamp could handle it, if you installed arialuni.ttf
      • SenRepus
        >.< i had to tag 101 files
      • had to restart after tagging 100
      • so tagger didnt force me to submit TRMs
      • BrianFreud
        QT not working on ME?
      • Citizen
        BrianFreud i added a note because of the (Unreleased) in titles
      • BrianFreud
        is it actually on the titles though?
      • that discog didn't include it on those tracks
      • SenRepus
        never put unreleased
      • its not part of the song name
      • Citizen
        i have the pdf with the artwork printed here, it has 'Unreleased' on the titles, in the same font and size as (extended club mix) for example
      • BrianFreud
        Well, one of his it's part of the version title
      • but the others, agreed
      • SenRepus
        extended club mix is version info, something we need
      • "unreleased version" would be version info
      • if it is just a note stating that it was not previously released, which it often is, we dont want it
      • BrianFreud
        drsaude, you here?
      • Citizen
        and what about this 'unreleased original version' in the last title?
      • SenRepus
        that one is fine
      • Citizen
        but it says also 'unreleased'
      • following your 'rule' it should be 'original version' only
      • hawke_
        that's a silly distinction IMO.
      • if the creator of the release calls it Foo Unreleased, then that's what it's called. In my book.
      • SenRepus
        they arent calling it Foo Unreleased
      • when they wrote that song
      • do you really thing they named it "Foo Unreleased"?
      • Citizen
        it's a hidden bonus CD with some remixes and some new stuff... they want to show which songs are new and even one song is there two times, in original version and in a remix version
      • BrianFreud
        hawke: if it lists as "Tom Tom Drums (previously unreleased)" you really want that parenthetical info?
      • SenRepus
        Citizen: exactly, the remixes have version info, the new songs have "unreleased" after them to show that, until now, they were unreleased
      • "unreleased original version" is all version info, it differentiates the track from what we would normally thing the original version is, sometime previously released
      • hawke_
        SenRepus: I don't feel it's appropriate to second-guess the person releasing it.
      • SenRepus
        i do
      • BrianFreud
        sounds like a JapaneseArtistIntent type of debate... /me steps out :P
      • hawke_
        BrianFreud: I don't think there'll be any debate, just an "agree to disagree"
      • SenRepus
        basicly :p
      • Citizen: if you call it just "original version" that makes it look like its the same as some other version, so it should include unreleased
      • BrianFreud
        hmmm, Paul Revere and the Raiders - wasn't someone in here a fan?
      • SenRepus
        if you want a second opinion we do have the forums and mailing lists
      • hawke_
        hmm, so is picard-qt working properly with the renaming?
      • SenRepus
        asking me?
      • hawke_
        anyone who knows.
      • also, is the %format% tag still supported?
      • BrianFreud
        hey, what would you guys name this release? http://recordbrother.typepad.com/photos/uncateg...
      • hawke_
        Santo Presents: Mexican Rock and Roll Rumble
      • possibly
      • Citizen
        brrr... have a look at a shop... i have such releases too, difficult to tell
      • BrianFreud
        what about the "and Psych-Out South of the Border"?
      • Citizen: that's a scan of the front of the vinyl :P
      • hawke_
        BrianFreud: could go either way on that. I have no objections to it
      • BrianFreud
        :)
      • Cool site, btw, for obscure old vinyl
      • Citizen
        i have only obscure new vinyl *g*