I have one release where it was either make a massive & artist of the like 20 different artists who were playing with a band, or just use the band listing and put the 20 other artists in the track annotation
2007-09-15 25856, 2007
brianfreud
Band & Joe Bob & John Smith & Tom Smith & Ron Smith & ....
2007-09-15 25834, 2007
brianfreud
the artist field would have been longer than the 255 character limit
chapter 11, and not 7, but it's a move in the right direction :)
2007-09-15 25809, 2007
brianfreud
looks like the SEC may end up involved though - a decently large amount of last minute trading right before the filing, which normally indicates insider trading... (stock price dropped 50%, the filing cuts off trading the moment it's filed...)
2007-09-15 25846, 2007
deadchip
hah
2007-09-15 25812, 2007
warp
brianfreud: nasty timing with a trial on monday
2007-09-15 25839, 2007
MrQwerty joined the channel
2007-09-15 25832, 2007
kmccoylogger joined the channel
2007-09-15 25847, 2007
kmccoylogger
Would someone be willing to help out a newbie?
2007-09-15 25849, 2007
kmccoylogger
kmccoylogger is now known as kmccoy
2007-09-15 25857, 2007
kmccoy
(Me, that is...)
2007-09-15 25857, 2007
Guysmiley
I probably can't help, but I'll try and we can hope that somebody will see me struggling and step in to assist. :)
2007-09-15 25809, 2007
kmccoy
hehe, fair enough. :)
2007-09-15 25827, 2007
kmccoy
If we run into a wall, I'll just try back sometime when there're more people awake.
2007-09-15 25810, 2007
kmccoy
I'm trying things out for the first time and I'm having Picard do audio analysis of all my music files. I have the album by Blue Man Group called The Complex.
2007-09-15 25850, 2007
FauxFaux
Go on.
2007-09-15 25856, 2007
Guysmiley
see? it worked!
2007-09-15 25803, 2007
Muzzz
penis.
2007-09-15 25812, 2007
kmccoy
It put the files into two different albums. It seems that there are two albums in the database that are nearly identical, except for the final track. Is this sort of thing normal? Is the last track being so different likely an error, or is it a typical sort of thing?
2007-09-15 25822, 2007
FauxFaux
Guysmiley: I'm just waiting for something that can be answered with a link.
2007-09-15 25839, 2007
kmccoy
The final track also has a similar name, but one version is several minutes longer than the other.
2007-09-15 25859, 2007
FauxFaux
kmccoy: Unfortunately lots of artists release the same album with loads of stupid variations, unfortunately Picard can't pick for you, you have to do it yourself.
2007-09-15 25813, 2007
kmccoy
I read the editing FAQ, but it says that albums should only be merged if the track lengths are very similar.
2007-09-15 25833, 2007
kmccoy
Okay, so I just do it on my end, and the database is probably not in error?
2007-09-15 25813, 2007
FauxFaux
Unfortunately the database is probably fine. :)
2007-09-15 25830, 2007
Guysmiley
The database isn't in error. There really are two albums. If you cluster the tracks and use Picard to search it'll suggest the right album for all the tracks.
2007-09-15 25821, 2007
FauxFaux
There are a "few" duplicate releases, but we're working on those. ¬_¬
FauxFaux: I followed your link from the other day (and I think you just pasted it there). Are those albums duplicate because they're of identical length?
The last thing I saw directed at me was "<FauxFaux> kmccoy: Unfortunately lots of artists release the same album with loads of stupid variations, unfortunately Picard can't pick for you, you have to do it yourself." -- if anyone else said anything after that to me, could you repeat please?
2007-09-15 25858, 2007
FauxFaux
15/06:13:30 < Guysmiley> The database isn't in error. There really are two albums. If you cluster the tracks and use Picard to search it'll suggest the right album for all the tracks.
2007-09-15 25810, 2007
kmccoy
Excellent. Thanks. :)
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2007-09-15 25856, 2007
brianfreud
Guysmiley: though there's at least 2 in that list which are not actually duplicates, so you need to actually check that they are dupes, and not transliteration/translation/just plain funky before merging
2007-09-15 25859, 2007
brianfreud
the three I can think of that are on there that are ok are the Nirvana one, the Cornell Class Notes one, and the MB Test artist one
2007-09-15 25839, 2007
Guysmiley
i would always verify duplicates before doing a merge.
2007-09-15 25845, 2007
brianfreud
:)
2007-09-15 25847, 2007
Guysmiley
but, i guess i don't understand what you're asking me to watch out for. there are quite a few nirvana albums in the list.
2007-09-15 25808, 2007
brianfreud
oh?
2007-09-15 25813, 2007
brianfreud refreshes
2007-09-15 25849, 2007
Guysmiley
i see a number of Nirvana albums. you?
2007-09-15 25809, 2007
brianfreud
yes... looking through them now...
2007-09-15 25845, 2007
brianfreud
hmmm, ok, caught one typo :P
2007-09-15 25838, 2007
brianfreud
One box set I'll have to take a look at, as something seems funky, but all the others are ok - just a result of having a uber-complete discography, with all the overlapping boxes and such (and hopefully NGS lets me merge those above the individual release merge level)
2007-09-15 25847, 2007
brianfreud
otherwise all the Nirvana is ok
2007-09-15 25839, 2007
FauxFaux
You haven't seen the 5-second gap report.
2007-09-15 25855, 2007
FauxFaux is currently pretending it doesn't exist.
2007-09-15 25859, 2007
deadchip pretends FauxFaux doesn't exist
2007-09-15 25824, 2007
Guysmiley
brianfreud: Help me understand why all these Nirvana albums are ok. How are they different?
2007-09-15 25825, 2007
brianfreud
5 second gap report?
2007-09-15 25836, 2007
deadchip
ok it's not doable @_@ i can't ignore t3h FauxFaux
