#musicbrainz

RickyWh1: this channel isn't really about instruments, or music production

but for the record, I have a Emu midi keyboard and love it

cool

ya i am looking to play low bass tones on my keyboard and transfer them to my PC for use in a game i'm making

ah, does it have to come off a keyboard?

but when I install the driver, it shows up only as a Yamaha midi

you could just use software synths for that

ok cool

recording off the keyboard you'll probably have to go into a soundcard

ya do you know of any good software synth?

what's your budget :P

Most of the synths by native instruments are excellent, and come with some great presets

i want free open source

Hrm

Arturia Moog Modular v2.2

i seen that one for a few hundred

http://www.vemberaudio.se/surge.php is probably the most badass cheap synth I can recommend

ok checking it out now

what kind of training does one take to synthesize cool melodies

practice practice practice

music training books or something i'm sure are out there

How do I get a list of albums with an SQL query? I tried a query that kinda works but which includes all releases of an album while I only want the album name... SELECT DISTINCT name FROM album WHERE 1= ANY(attributes[2:4]) AND artist IN(SELECT id FROM artist WHERE name='Metallica');

maybe you want to select release groups then

ah.. it seems I need to update my database to get release groups

they were added in may, so it would be a good idea :)

i got my yamaha showing up now but it's showing that the flash memory has no files and the System has one .bup file (probably a backup)?

release group sounds like it's the group that released the release.. "abstract release" or something like that would make more sense methinks

not that it really matters though

fuppp: better than cultural identifies that the BBC wanted to call them :-)

I still wonder how they came up with that

it makes sense in a way.

culturally speaking people refer to albums and not releases.

not specific releases.

so culturally == casual, I guess?

hm, there is no "release group" for tracks?

no

release groups group releases. releases have tracks.

it would be nice to be able to group all versions of a track including different artists, but exclude tracks with the same name that is not the same track...

You can create 'same track' and 'version of' ARs between tracks.

aha

Although when you get to different artists it might get tricky.

hmm... I wonder how hard it would be for picard to be able to split tracks (particularly the last track) by " / " for rips which split the track...

night all (:

is there any way to get the exact same sound from my keyboard (which outputs midi output to my PC) to sound exactly the same?

i'm using the mixcat software

question for anyone more knowledgeable about this

when creating wikipedia album AR's for a film soundtrack, does the wikipedia page have to be explicitly about the album and nothing else, or could it be the wiki page for the film if it contains information about the soundtrack (ie. dates + track listing)?

dinog1: page for the film with info about soundtrack is ok

dinog1: but people usually don't like pages just about the film

alright luks. thanks.

I have two computers: a desktop and a laptop... When I log in to MB from either it seems I'm automatically logged out from the other one

rather annoying

any way to prevent that?

I realise that *usually* the current behaviour is desired for security reasons

how does one find the label code when adding a new label?

if one exists?

should label names include any "Inc." or "Ltd." (or similar local variant)?

AnMaster: that automatically logging out doesn't happen for me, do you have 'Only from this IP address' checked when logging in?

AnMaster: yes, "Inc." or "Ltd." should be included if it is used consistently by the label.

AnMaster: if the label sometimes includes, and sometimes doesn't, I would probably leave it off.

+it

warp, about "only from this ip": yes, but since I use both behind the same NAT this souldn't matter as far as I can see

depends on which IP it stuffs in the cookie :)

you mean it sets it to the private ip?

that would be weird, but I didn't write the code :)

in any case, I don't have that checked because I like te remain logged in both at work and at home.

try not using the 'only from this ip' setting

if you still get logged out, at least you've ruled that out :P

should the inc./ltd./* be included in sort name too?

AnMaster: even without storing the private IP, it may be some other cookie stealing protection which ties the cookie to a specific browser.

label I'm about to add is "International Masters Publishers BV", "BV" being like "Inc." but for the Netherlands.

besloten vennootschap

or something :)