The original one, not the fake Nestlé or Coca-Cola one
2008-04-07 09820, 2008
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2008-04-07 09846, 2008
FauxFaux
The most important bit of coke is the sugar, heretics,.
2008-04-07 09811, 2008
BrianFreud
gioele: I think, in general, we do ok... luckily editors with issues like this one are rare. (Even if they do assume noone but them will udnerstand when they say, for example, "t'es un vrai trouduc" in a note :P)
2008-04-07 09840, 2008
gioele
BrianFreud: not much: 90% of new Italian releases are without a source URL
2008-04-07 09857, 2008
gioele
60% of my request are not responded to
2008-04-07 09818, 2008
BrianFreud
oh, I think having the blanks on the form would be REALLY helpful - people like to fill blanks. I just don't know that it has to be actually a manditory thing...
2008-04-07 09836, 2008
gioele
and a 10/15% of the requester felt hurt by such a request
2008-04-07 09808, 2008
Freso
"Blanks"?
2008-04-07 09808, 2008
gioele
BrianFreud: mandatory url OR explain why you can't give one
2008-04-07 09818, 2008
gioele
empty fields
2008-04-07 09840, 2008
gioele
It is late night, I feel _____
2008-04-07 09849, 2008
BrianFreud
yeah, I guess
2008-04-07 09810, 2008
BrianFreud
freso: Discogs/ASIN/Wiki url AR blanks as part of the add release form?
2008-04-07 09835, 2008
Freso
BrianFreud: As in, separate fields?
2008-04-07 09815, 2008
BrianFreud
yeah - just like you have a blank for the release title
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nikki
Kerensky97: I wrote a reply
2008-04-07 09854, 2008
Freso nods
2008-04-07 09850, 2008
nikki
I remember when people used to add loads of non-album tracks and just type gibberish like "asdf" for the required note...
2008-04-07 09802, 2008
Freso
Perhaps it would be an idea to have some "greyed out" text in the edit note field saying something like "Please say why you're making this edits, as well as state any sources you may have (URLs, a physical copy, etc.)".
2008-04-07 09832, 2008
Freso
Which would magically vanish once you started typing something in the field.
2008-04-07 09852, 2008
nikki
meh, I'd rather see proper text
2008-04-07 09800, 2008
ruaok
deadchip: you still there?
2008-04-07 09810, 2008
Freso shrugs
2008-04-07 09811, 2008
nikki manages to submit the "greyed out text" in notes often enough already :P
2008-04-07 09825, 2008
ruaok
nikki: what time is it in London?
2008-04-07 09830, 2008
ruaok
11:30?
2008-04-07 09830, 2008
nikki is in germany :)
2008-04-07 09833, 2008
nikki
yes
2008-04-07 09834, 2008
ruaok
feh.
2008-04-07 09840, 2008
ruaok
11:30 in germany?
2008-04-07 09844, 2008
Freso
nikki: The trick here would be that the "greyed out text" wouldn't be submitted.
2008-04-07 09845, 2008
nikki
00:30 in germany
2008-04-07 09852, 2008
deadchip
ruaok, yeah
2008-04-07 09856, 2008
deadchip
Di 8. Apr 00:32:57 CEST 2008
2008-04-07 09811, 2008
ruaok
did the time change just happen then?
2008-04-07 09815, 2008
ruaok
like yesterday?
2008-04-07 09820, 2008
deadchip
ruaok, it was last saturday
2008-04-07 09821, 2008
nikki
no, that was last week
2008-04-07 09822, 2008
deadchip
to sunday
2008-04-07 09825, 2008
ruaok
oh, ok.
2008-04-07 09835, 2008
ruaok
we've now two weeks earlier than you.
2008-04-07 09838, 2008
Freso
nikki: I'm not sure *exactly* how this is done, but I've seen it used several time on other websites.
I've seen a few people trying to get cover art from user submitted covers that way
2008-04-07 09814, 2008
ruaok
heh. maybe that's a loophole for us to exploit.
2008-04-07 09827, 2008
ruaok
use amazon to upload cover art that we don't have and then link to it.
2008-04-07 09829, 2008
BrianFreud
Thought it violated the AZN ws agreement to deep link that way?
2008-04-07 09842, 2008
ruaok
I can't recall.
2008-04-07 09851, 2008
ruaok
did you read that recently?
2008-04-07 09808, 2008
Freso
Oh well.
2008-04-07 09820, 2008
BrianFreud
been a while, nothing recent
2008-04-07 09822, 2008
Freso
I really, seriously need to actually go properly to bed.
2008-04-07 09845, 2008
Freso
G'night all!
2008-04-07 09859, 2008
ruaok
natta Freso
2008-04-07 09836, 2008
Freso
Tykling: Jeg har fundet noget hiphop du skal høre, så prik lige til mig når du kan. =)
2008-04-07 09843, 2008
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nikki
it doesn't currently display the cover art when we add a link like that though, if it's acceptable to link to user submitted cover art, it would be good if it did display it
2008-04-07 09850, 2008
ruaok
would someone like to volunteer to read the ToS to see if this is legit or not?
2008-04-07 09855, 2008
ruaok
then we can set policy...
2008-04-07 09809, 2008
nikki isn't going to volunteer because she's no good at understanding legalese
2008-04-07 09855, 2008
ruaok
ok, I've gots to run off for a few to exchange backup disks at the colo
Would be quite simple to write for (FireFox only) GM... but the people we most want to get to be adding urls would be the ones least likely to have any MB script installed
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gioele
BrianFreud: actually the coverart field is quite hard to get right for a new editor (permissions...) and I'd leave the free form note box in it
2008-04-07 09807, 2008
gioele
g'nite
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BrianFreud
MBChatLogger: off
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MBChatLogger
is not logging
2008-04-07 09833, 2008
MBChatLogger
is logging
2008-04-07 09816, 2008
FauxFaux
Dig.. th.. mu.. the music industry makes me so sad.
2008-04-07 09842, 2008
BrianG
it makes me cry myself to sleep
2008-04-07 09852, 2008
zoke
argh, why is genpuid such a resource hog
2008-04-07 09807, 2008
FauxFaux
It's attempting to summon jesus.
2008-04-07 09840, 2008
BrianFreud
\o/
2008-04-07 09800, 2008
zoke
also, have we developed a systematic way to get new releases in to MB ?
2008-04-07 09812, 2008
zoke
I just added a release from october 2007
2008-04-07 09835, 2008
FauxFaux
Congratulations!
2008-04-07 09838, 2008
BrianFreud
I think there's just simply too many coming from WAY too many labels for us to try
2008-04-07 09814, 2008
FauxFaux
(music industry complaint #1: if the labels actually published a list of what they published..)
FauxFaux: yeah :/ I would add all the new releases from certain labels if I knew they'd been released >_<
2008-04-07 09840, 2008
FauxFaux
Or, hell (#2), they gave everything that they released a unique name.
2008-04-07 09809, 2008
BrianFreud
I tried for Varese Sarabande, but while it's easy to know what they're going to eventually release in the next few months, it's hard to stay on top of which ones od those they actually just release
2008-04-07 09811, 2008
zoke
or at least a unique number, like ISBN
2008-04-07 09817, 2008
BrianFreud
ISRC?
2008-04-07 09840, 2008
nikki has been using amazon's web services to go through catalogue numbers lately
My randomly selected cd (now69, universal) has lots of numbers, but none of them look isrcy.
2008-04-07 09823, 2008
FauxFaux
(this is such an awful cd)
2008-04-07 09855, 2008
BrianFreud
I have one here with an IFPI number in the matrix area - IFPI L005
2008-04-07 09841, 2008
zoke
hmm, I don't see this number anywhere
2008-04-07 09839, 2008
BrianFreud
Seems like it's digitally stored as a watermark on the recording - "Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording which can be permanently encoded into a product as its digital fingerprint. Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments."
