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331477 | 555882 | 482189 | Sam's Town | http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000HDR9NG

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the data's all there in the DB fine

Which client library are you using, adhawkins?

And does it work for other releases which have ASINs assigned?

Yes, works for most of them.

It's the latest library I think, but might not necessarily be the absolute latest version

Version 3, from CVS, but not been updated for a while

Generally works. In the past when we've had this issue, removing the ASIN and re-adding it sorts it.

So I'm going to say you've got yourself a bug with the client library you're using

One sec, let me enable debug.

That, or a bug in whatevers parsing the lib's output

Well, the library just has a 'Release->getAsin()' call.

No parsing involved, just checking if what is returned is empty

*sigh* sometimes the style rules end up with truly silly song titles

Furious Angels (bonus disc: Instrumentals) - Instrumental (instrumental)

Hmm...library doesn't seem to have a way of enabling debugging any more

lauri: Okay, so we have a truce on the civil war. ;) I'll try to get my hands on a French telephone directory, or at least some collateral that supports how such French names should be sorted one way or the other.

lauri: http://www.metal-archives.com/images/2/1/0/7/21... I hate to imagine how that'd best be titled to keep it in line with the SG

So much so, I've not botehred entering it yet

Multiple sub titles, a live release too, with multiple discs

ahaha

good grief

Muzzz: That's an awesome title.

let me find you one i did enter, after we debated it in here for like 2 hours how to

it's nearly as awesome

but not nearly as cute

it says there's one new message, but when I check, there are three

nikki: here's a hint, Thunderbird sucks

yeah well, all email clients for macs do

Woah, you're not a raving Mail.app fan?

muzz: subtitle madness, in case it helps: http://musicbrainz.org/release/fc9e6b6e-bd22-4f...

no, it's rubbish

lauri: D:

grouping them together doesn't count as threading, as much as mail.app would like to think it does

when all else fails, go lisp on it's ass

Does Mail.app really not do threading?!

if it does, I haven't worked out how to turn it on

it just groups them together so you end up with a list sorted by date

(On the topic of shit software, cpan under cygwin sucks)

oh dear god, we have 3 versions of disc 1, and 2 versions of disc 2, and none match the version i have, and one apparently has a mistake on the cover tracklisting

which probably means they all do

I ended up switching from mail.app though because it wouldn't check non-inbox folders for new mail

so I had to click on like 20 different bloody folders just to check if there was anything there

omg, that's nuts

adhawkins: where'd you download your client libraries from? Because;

$ find . | xargs grep -i getasin

totally defeats the purpose of mail filters

I thought maybe it was gmail's imap stuff, but thunderbird is quite happy to check non-inbox folders for new mail

so I guess checking folders + threading > inability to count

Err, I'm using CVS I think. One sec

Ignore that question, I forgot to cd .. before doing that grep hah

Revision: 10215

Node Kind: directory

Schedule: normal

Last Changed Author: luks

Last Changed Rev: 9247

it's imap, you could run both

Last Changed Date: 2007-07-08 10:42:47 +0100 (Sun, 08 Jul 2007)

when one tells you there's mail in inbox, you can read it in the one that threads and checks the folders :)

lauri: it tells me there's mail, it just can't count how many there are :)

so I'll have 7 and it'll claim there's 4 or something

oooh

Getting anywhere muzzz?

adhawkins: nae :(

Ok.

Hmmm, got a release where it does work?

One sec.

Just so you know, I'm querying by discid rather than directly to the release

I have a classical music CD on which Anna Gourari plays music from varioust artists on the piano

the wiki says I should enter this as a Various Artist CD. But is there still some way to associate this VA releasewith Anna Gourari?

oh, "Mixed recitals by a performer" says I shouldn't add it as VA

Set the release artist to Anna Gourari

let me find you one so you can see

adhawkins: aha!

So, looking up stuff on the XML services using the MBID returns different data to that of a search done by DiscID

tbm: http://musicbrainz.org/release/c18ce7a6-8f4d-45...

lauri: thanks

With the ones you aren't getting ASINs, the XML quite simply isn't returning the ASIN XML ode for some reason

Yes, that's the conclusion I'd come to.

Why it isn't doing this is beyond me, but the data is all there in the DB fine

(also you sooo should have said you were using DiscIDs earlier)

Yep. In the past, as I said beofre, Lukz has disappeared off to do something to the database to fix it.

ALternatively, removing the ASIN and re-adding it usually sorts it

Apologies for not mentioning disc IDs earler :)

Do you think if I re-queried based on the release ID I'd get the ASIN?

Well, the XML format is different, but it does appear to return the ASIN when you query based on MBID

Yes, it does for most releases

However, you queried one earlier based on the release ID and it worked, when I'm not getting it when I query it based on disc id

That was me manually lookinga the XML and not the library heh

Yes.

But I suspect the library isn't returning it because it's not coming back in the XML

Ah, just checked my code. When I do the query, I first do a 'getReleases' passing the disc ID

This returns a list of release IDs, and for each one I do a 'getReleaseById'

So I'm not getting the release from the discid if you see what I mean

luks, you there?

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any spanish speakers about?