#musicbrainz

CallerNo6, waiting for the split method to be added from test

(or if the artist has only a few recordings, doing it by hand :P )

the proper method is head + desk = headdesk

ah, yes, I discovered the headdesk method.

er, "stumbled upon" rather

bah, I still hate the plastic film they put on these cd cases.

nikki!

that was awesome/me found wall-e

lso a lot of other robots i know

moe, k9, robotboy and servo

oh man, neder is flirting with eva?

bender*

to versions of marvin the paranoid android

and dude, robot usses (bil & ted)

my godt, i think absolutely every robot ever is in this

hmm. i see a dalek

technically speaking

i can find gumballmachine (tom servo)

i can even find something i thik is red robot from disel cuties

man this must have taken ages to draw

crow! that's his name

i cant find data or crow

bummer

CatCat, post the link? sounds interesting

it's nikki's link from just a while ago

I joined afterwards, though I just thought to find it in the log :P

oh ok

If there is a tracklisting on the Label website, is that authorative or should I still use the "Guess Case" button?

ah, nevermind, found it in the style guide. Guess case is the way to go

Is there any way to _not_ make it guess the case?

ha, managed that too in the end

for digital media package must be none?

Correct

jacobbrett: hmm correct as 1 or 2? http://i.imgur.com/qptGR.jpg

2

The "None" field was added to affirm lack of packaging, whereas a blank field could be seen as "unknown".

kepstin: what sort of plastic film? the clingy sort that has to be thrown away, or the looser non-clingy sort?

hahaha http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/image...

Hi Folks. Does someone knows if with Picard I can tag a single mp3 file to multiple discs?

I don't understand

what do you mean by tagging to multiple discs?

I have found the most awesome thing ever.. ok no but http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ_bhwCgtXg

luks: I have an mp3 that was release by the artist in several different albums. for example, Arctic Monkeys's Cornerstone was released in both albums, Cornerston - EP and Humbug.

luks: I'd like to have both albums in my iTunes without actually duplicating the mp3 file. Is this possible?

epc: no, it isn't possible

because of the way audio file tags work

luks: and is it possible to let picard do the work of "duplicating" the file? for example, a track from a disc be dragged over another disc holding the SHIFT key?

or something like that.

epc: nope, picard can't do that

luks: ok. thanks for the help! :)

reosarevok, if I understand correctly, the terms separated are referring to different sections of the recording? If so, I suppose em dashes would be most appropriate, though without spaces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Em_dash

As I understand it, the question of putting spaces around em-dashes is regional.

Interesting, I'd have thought that to be the case with en dashes...em dashes already take up so much space :P

Stylistically, I've always seen em dashes with no spaces, en dashes with spaces.

MB server feelin' some pain right now?

anyone else getting 502 and 500 errors from musicbrainz.org?

Yep.

Pretty rough right now.

Lots of 500s.

hey guys

reosarevok: fwiw, "movements [that] are described by multiple tempo markings... should be separated by en dashes set off by spaces"

can someone share an opinion on this edit ?

reosarevok: (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_o... )

which is how I've always seen it done

Lotheric: I don't think the brackets should be there, the featured artists simply go after the "feat." and the non-featured artists go before it

reosarevok: the link you provided showed /em dashes/ which are longer and (at least in the US) generally used without spaces

Lotheric: but I wouldn't vote no, as it's easier to modify it later to remove the brackets than it is to look up all the artists again :)

could it be clearer perhaps on the wiki ? the example shown is taken from the recording 'form' which does not allow parenthesis at the end

you can add brackets there, but you have to add an extra empty artist credit :/

I'll do that, just wanted to have more than one opinion before I start changing the way I edit stuff

heh... and I never did like the idea of screenshots on that page

an aside about featured artists... has there been any talk about cases where "featured" just calls attention to a prominent member of a band? I see that in compilations.

torc asked about it at some point, but not really

I don't have enough experience with those to have any strong opinions. all the ones I know of are entered as new artists

I've been wondering if/how to indicate the distinction between those and "feat = guest".

Nevermind. Just babbling.

what would you have done pre-ngs?

Asked the same question, and then said, "nevermind... just babbling" probably

haha

Next time I run into a good example, I'll give it some more thought.

what to do when you have featured artists on the inlay but not on the back cover ?

I think my answer would be: if before you would have ignored and it just entered it under the main artist -> use the entire thing as an artist credit of the main artist. if you would have treated it like a featuring artist and put it in the title as (feat. foo) -> treat it like a featuring artist with two artists linked. if you would have added a new artist -> add a new artist

That can't fault that reasoning.

er, "That makes sense"

I have a question about labels

the wiki says we should use the imprint and not holdings... since we hvae the possibility of having multiple labels for a release now in ngs can we add the distributor ?

Lotheric: (speaking only for myself) I wouldn't want to mix the concepts of "label" and "distributor" by using the "label field" for both.

It's a confusing enough subject already :)

I did not mean ad a new field

I agree it's confusing :)

Lotheric, I'd add it there too if the logo is in it