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Got my second edit up, if anybody wishes to give me feedback on it, much appreciated ---- http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=14364913

I'm a bit lost on the next edit I wish to do, anybody want to show a newbie the ropes?

Snartal: correct. Approved

Cool, thanks, are they nice and clear to ya reosarevok?

This one was, although it might have been easier to find "Hold on Loosely" by 38 Special and show it was not a rap song ;)

What's the next edit?

Well, though of that..... but wanted to make sure they didn't rap it.

That one there....... it shows under the 38 special gangsta rap

But when I click on the single artist album best shots.....

It shows 38 special rock band on the release line..... I'm a bit confused.

Oh

I'm not sure where to correct it

That means somebody moved the release

But forgot to move the release group

:)

http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/4791578d-0... is what you should be moving

ok, so do I do a merge here?

or a move?

Bit confused on that part

Move

Well

Unless there's a Best Shots group in the page for the band

There is

Different release dates though

And no PUIDs

Hmm

Let me check

One moment

Yea, this is a bit confusing, as one is marked "Album"...... probably improper. One marked "compliation"

Aha

Yeah

Should be Compilation

I think

Ok, part one is easy

Go to both releases

And press Merge

goto, as in have them both up i different tabs in IE?

Or go to one first and to another later

You'll just have to press merge on both

http://musicbrainz.org/release/aedffd5e-48b3-46... and http://musicbrainz.org/release/93fe55d2-6a7e-44...

For easy reaching

Once you're in a merge page with the two releases on it, you'll see lots of options: press "single artist"

And let me know :)

hmmm, I didn't get all that. I just got a page that says "Merge Into"

And I can pick one or the other.

Should I go with that?

Hmm

Did you press merge on the release, or the artist?

It says "Merge Release Groups"

You are about to merge the following release groups into one release group. Please review the Release Groups guidelines to ensure that you're merging release groups properly.

Oooh, ok

Yeah

But we want to merge the actual releases :)

Because they're a duplicate

(normally, they wouldn't be and we could just merge the groups, but this time, they are)

ok

Done

Ok

Have you pressed "single artist?

I didn't have to, it didn't ask

Ok, yeah

Those are the release groups

Well, it's good for you to learn to merge those anyway

But now we want to merge the two albums (which are actually one)

Gotta learn sometime, might as well be now! Remembering it will be hard part - lol

http://musicbrainz.org/release/aedffd5e-48b3-46... and http://musicbrainz.org/release/93fe55d2-6a7e-44...

ok, but don't we need the first merge approved?

Nah

They're different things

Go into those

And press merge

(the one which is in the release area, close to the cover art)

ok, I have no idea how I selected the two releases, but they are there, and I clicked single artist

Ok

Now

Scroll to the end of the page

And see which release is on top

The compliation one

Nice

Then

You should select

Keep release attributes of the target release. (target release is the top one, and you want to keep it a compilation)

k

It doesn't matter for "Language/Script" because both are "English, Latin"

And usually you *would* say "merge release groups"

But you're merging them already

So choose " Don't merge release groups."

ok, so even though the PUIDs are in the bottom one, they will merge into the top one?

Yes

ok, so click merge?

Yes, but leave an edit note saying they're duplicates just in case :)

ok, done

ok, I'm getting it now....... first one was merge the album (release), second one was merge the release group.

Well, this one was to merge the release, actually

ok.

But yeah

If you merge the releases

You don't have to merge the groups before, because as you've seen

You can just tell MusicBrainz to merge them at the same time

(it will still be two edits, though… both are done together, but one can be accepted and the other rejected)

got it. Well heck, I need 11 edits anyway - lol

So the reason it was coming up with the correct artist was this..... I was looking at a release group, which had the gangsta rap 38 special assigned to it. within that release group, there was a release, which had the classic rock 38 special assigned to it.

So, artists for release groups and releases themselves are separately assigned?

Yes

Well, *normally* they're not

But they can be

Which I mean is: 99,99% of the times they're the same, but yeah, they are separate fields

Yea, seems a bit strange to have an artist for the release and the release group, but I'm sure there is a reason for that.

Yes

For example

You can have a 2xCD

Disc 1 is by band A, disc 2 by band B

But they're sold together

That would have band A as release artist for disc 1, band B for disc 2, and probably Various Artists for the release group

ok.

(Not that common, but I've entered some of those myself)

Well, good thing I'm picking easy ones for my first edits! lol

It can also happen that the artist for the release is different than the artists for the tracks

(I think that happens only in releases with tracks by various artists, but I might be forgetting some situation)

For example, a DJ-Mix CD tends to have the DJ as the release artist, and then the specific artist assigned to each track

You'll get the hang of it

But don't learn *too much*, because the new musicbrainz is coming in one month ;)

(4:25 AM here)

nn

Good night, oh Benevolent Dictator (and everyone else)!

thanks for you help reosarevok!

ok, as I'm a gutton for punishment, anybody around for advice on my next edit?

nikki, you here?

Hey musicbrainz picard on windows XP is using underscores in place of quotation marks in some of my file names

Can I get it to ditch the underscores?