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oh, I get it.

I shouldn't hit add artist until I choose one of the choices that pops up.

not very intuitive. :-(

but it works. :)

You mean add artist should be disabled?

Nono, I need feedback - this is alpha alpha alpha quality atm :P

not sure what it should do. lemme think.

but yea, it doesn't feel at all intuitive yet

I'm thikning of auto-matically filling in the "join phrase" boxes with "," and " & "

maybe have the button say: "search for artist".

then display the artists in a box below that is always there.

But the button doesn't search, it automatically searches

then when the user selects an artist add it above.

I think the auto search is throwing me off too.

I don't particularly like auto search -- we don't have the bandwidth infrastructure that google does.

ah, ok

bbiab

ok, lemme fiddle for a while

ok i believe the last fm api 2.0 is broken when doing track based lookups

look at these results http://pastebin.ca/1480188

i i give up till it returns consistant values for artist and artist/track , not these ridiculous numbers

seems fine for artist and can change the code for artist only based lookups in lastfmplus for now i think

cept i never use that

could be some good stuff for comments tag

wow lastfmplus is so much faster if only doing artist lookups and not track based, gives consistant results for every song

ruaok: I think I got something better, let me know when you are back

I clicked delete and it went omgomgomgerror :/

it did?

something like that anyway

I added one artist, added another, then clicked delete on the first artist

http://86.128.22.242:3000/release-group/7c3218d... try now?

aha

interesting, it makes the form submit...

It's really hard to display it in an intuitive way, that's why I asked for help in yesterdays meeting

hmm... words are annoying things

maybe a picture would work

sure, any advice is good

I want to demonstrate what I would find intuitive (not that I'm an interface designer or anything, just my personal opinion :))

more opinions the better, until we work something out :P

did you see proniks mockup?

I saw some

oh well, bed time

http://lmfao.org.uk/artistcredit.png <- this is basically the way I would probably expect the page to flow... I guess the main differences are that in my mind, you click 'add' because you want to start adding a new artist, not because you've finished looking up the previous artist, and the blank entry and add button are always the bottom part, instead of looking up artists from the top part

what timing lol

that makes sense, but the problem is how do you enter name variations?

I'm still thinking about that, it could maybe work a bit like the relate-to box, where you look up the artist in the actual box which pops up, leaving the input part for the credited name

and I'm not sure how I would display which artist a credit is linked to... at the moment it looks like in yours that if you select 'test artist' and then 'abba', and realise you got them the wrong way round, you could switch the credited names without actually switching the linked artists so you get abba credited as 'test artist' and 'test artist' credited as abba

aCiD2: I'll have another look in a bit.

Ill send mail later.

ruaok: well I'm off to bed now, look tomorrow?

ok.

aCiD2: and sleep well :P

I'll leave the computer on, hopefully it won't blow up

:P

I'm going to be on sporadic tomorrow

and then off for the rest of the week.

nikki: How about we do it your way, and when you select an artist, it changes to a link, like in the current editor

debating how to avoid wet spots on the playa.

heh

nn aCiD2

But it also has a button "add alternative name" - clicking that would turn the button into an input?

If you want to change the artist then, you would click the pencil next to the artist link

aCiD2: the other thing I was thinking of was you look up an artist, select it, then it offers a list of ways the artist has been credited already to choose from (with an option to create a new one)

I guess something like what you said would be best, 'cause I imagine most artists use their usual primary name most of the time

someone's who's more familiar with discogs and soundunwound might have a better idea, I've never used either

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i am so bored

i wish catcat was around

what are CD stubs?

like i could guess but what exactly are they in MB

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thanks

i swear i searched the wiki for that

You're welcome.

I can usually get away with just using the query as the article name.

In the singular form though, so "CD Stub", not "CD Stubs".

yea...

i dont know what i did wrong, it was a day or two ago

figured id come in and ask and see if i could get catcat's attentino

omg inhouseuk is here

ruaok... i promise your choco some day

im paying my rent on my credit card though

so... forgive me

nikki, brianfreud, juhae, everyone else, hi ^_^

and im already leaving so >.> bye

eh

<-- wassleeping

mrning ti me

time to vacume before it get too hot

hmm

noticing the blog post about adding RGs to py-mb2

I could probably take a gander at that

alastairp: I'D LOVE THAT!

we also need someone to adapt it for NGS.

I want to work on the WS for NGS soon.

ok, I'm out. back in the morrow before I disappear for a few days.

hi, I've submitted a CD, but I can't get it in my client.

voltagex: did you register with musicbrainz, or just add it as a cdstub? Also which client are you using?

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