#musicbrainz

Just lookup "musicbrainz" on userscripts.org.

ok thanks

RifRaf: Your plugin is excellent!

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xcdfgkjhgcv cheers :)

Goodnight.

night

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hmmm

I wonder why lastfm doesn't know that Dark Magus is originally from 1974

Because nobody put that info in the wiki, and/or it's never been supplied as part of a label upload.

well, it was only released in 77 in japan and 97 stateside

so that seems fair

is there a separate field for the date something was recorded

as opposed to first released

hi kids

good mornin'

Lies.

never

Is it me or isn't there a clear guide one what to add to MB in the wiki? Especially in terms of video releases (DVDs and VHS)

Oh don't start this.

yeah...sorry

there isn't anything about that on the wiki because of the endless and needless bitching caused by it every time someone mentions it.

damn...

I keep running in to them lately and I can't find anything about a general consensus

even though we do have the ability to specify the medium type DVD

Well, I like to think that the most stupid of arguments has been quelled already. The "BUT IT'S CALLED MUSICBRAINZ. MUSIC ISN'T VIDEO DUHHHH I HAVE SHIT FOR BRAINS"

But the thing is that the release type isn't specific enough to distinguish between DVD-A and DVD-Vs.

hehe

but are there dvds without visual content in the first place? just audio/music

Yes.

...and how are they played? :-S

DVD player.

There's just no video track, it's only audio.

Should really be using a bluray player to play them these days, the quality is better.

well, the video/audio combo contains music too

stupid argument really ;)

hehe

MClemo: what, the one about "but it's called Musicbrainz!!"!!111" one?

yes

It's the most stupid argument I have ever heard. Next to "it looks stupid. to me. but that's my opinion. waaaah".

lol

haha

in general, too many useless discussions which seem to end in little or no results

Ding.

That said, I can appreciate the current stance on videos with it boiling down to MB is simply not able to cater for them... yet. But what does need to bedone is someone to document what needs to be done first.

so if you want to add that to the wiki and start a discussion with that solely in mind, go for it Prodoc. ;)

I'd hate to start such a thing...

though I would love to have a clear statement one what to do with such releases

on

intermediate solution: release type 'video'?

neah

Nah, there needs to be a level above the release medium. such as "audio" and "video", and then each of those having their own release mediums.

nabble overloads...

easier to just wget all of them and zgrepping.

Don't forget the endless arguments and impossible reasoning of IRC conversations too!

:'(

WTF are we still talking about?! The Evil Overlord has already spoken about the matter way back: http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=3...

Hahahaha.

Problem solved, just a wiki page change needed in some places

does anyone know what kind of encoding the musicbrainz search uses? like artist:röyksopp becomes artist%3Aroyksopp

:->%3A looks like HTML Entities

URLencoding.

yeah, that

HTML entities is & style encoding iirc.

that's what charset?

not sure why the ö went away

probably 7-bit

sonium: whatever charset you feed it in.

given it's perl, I imagine UTF-8.

Need some input; Working with In My Mind... It is a 2CD best of release. First i think the use of Bonus CD is wrong in this case. The cover shows no spaces between the year and should i convert 'Best of' to 'Best of Bertine Zetlitz'?

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1159102 <-- cover

radivx: No, keep only "Best Of" as subtitle

radivx: "In My Mind 1997-2007: Best Of (disc 1)" and "In My Mind 1997-2007: Best Of (bonus disc)"

Why bonus disc?

radivx: I don't know, http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/3a3a4d32-d... uses it

radivx: if the cover art does not call it bonus disc" then use "(disc 2)"

RifRaf: Even with your plugin, some of my music is coming out with an unknown genre.

RifRaf: Although few tracks are.

Ok will keep the subtitle and change to disc 2 instead of bonus

RifRaf: It's probably more the fault of Last FM not having the information rather than the plugin not functioning well enough.

Is it just me or is anyone else unable to scan their music with Picard ATM?

RifRaf: Also, it seems to be tagging everything as Rnb for some reason.

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is there a report/search guru available?

(MB report/search guru I mean)

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I'd like to have a list of all releases stored with the format DVD though I'm unable to do this with the normal search

I'd do this if I had a copy of the DB set up.

Unfortunately, I don't. and my server is still cocked over royally.

darn

should promotional album samplers be merged into the same release group as the album?

I guess it falls under "Promotional and bootleg versions of albums, singles etc should be in the same release group as the regular official release."

Are Release Groups fully operational now?

the server release with release groups went online

So, regarding this release, http://musicbrainz.org/release/c07cf48b-c08b-42... , can I use an RG to add the UK version of this that was released as issue 77 ?

hm, I think so

I get the feeling that this scenario isn't really going to be addressed. Looks like I have to clone the release, change the title and group them under some more generic name

check http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseGroup maybe it is covered

if not, there should be some text how to deal with such cases