#musicbrainz

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      • reosarevok
        I do :p
      • rswarbrick
        Pray tell :-)
      • reosarevok
      • Press Edit
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      • PROFIT
      • brianfreud
        rswarbrick: yes... though that's kind of the thought
      • rswarbrick
        brianfreud: Oh? But doesn't that mean that after the merge when someone searches for Dubin they get Jimmy McHugh as well?
      • (I'm coming at this after getting random conductors when searching for composers' names...)
      • reosarevok
        MEH - recorded in concert hall N on 9 Jan, 5 Apr, 16 May 2006
      • rswarbrick
        One track?!
      • brianfreud
        sure, but in a case where they're searching for the artist, and they're searching by lyricist's name, wouldn't they want the composer's name anyhow?
      • reosarevok
        An album
      • rswarbrick
        God, they were rubbish
      • Ah :-)
      • reosarevok
        There might be more specific dates
      • But in the booklet
      • (and Naxos are nice enough giving the back cover away :p )
      • 9 Jan to 16 May, or just 2006?
      • for the relationship
      • rswarbrick
        brianfreud: What I mean is that sometimes you search for eg. "Mozart" in the "relate to" box and get the Vienna Phil (or whatever). This is confusing to me...
      • brianfreud
        yeah, those are pretty useless ones
      • rswarbrick
        reosarevok: Since they're that far apart, I think I'd just use the year.
      • brianfreud
        that was kind of my thought re http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-4016 , though there I was specific to works
      • rswarbrick
        I really dislike those relations that say "this track was recorded from January to November in 1990" or whatever
      • brianfreud: Ah, I like that idea!
      • reosarevok
        Sounds relatively sound, yeah
      • gioele
        rswarbrick: why?
      • reosarevok
        Only annoyance is the results popup being even bigger
      • But still
      • rswarbrick
        gioele: Which bit are you asking about
      • ?
      • gioele
        rswarbrick: tracks recorded from Jan to Nov 1990
      • rswarbrick: that is the result of moving many ARs from releases to tracks
      • brianfreud
        reosarevok: yeah, a bit bigger... but I think far more friendly
      • (or at least, more comprehensible)
      • rswarbrick
        Well, frankly the information isn't any better than just saying 1990. And it looks bizarre.
      • gioele
        it makes sense for a release to be recorded from Jan to Nov, much less for tracks, but still...
      • rswarbrick
        Precisely. What one is really saying is "I know this track was recorded sometime between the following two dates"
      • reosarevok
        Clearly the answer in this case is asking Naxos to give the exact dates :p
      • rswarbrick
        But we don't really have a way to express that: most other timed relationships on MB show the period of time over which something happened
      • kovacsur
        reosarevok: I just released a new update, can you check if it works correctly in Chrome? http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121723
      • rswarbrick
        reosarevok: Well, of course :-) (They might inside the actual booklet)
      • reosarevok
        Probably :(
      • But it's weird
      • Usually they give a range
      • But in the previous one I did they gave the exact dates for every performance
      • rswarbrick
        I presume it's just a different editor on the CD materials.
      • Or shorter titles and more space, maybe :-)
      • reosarevok
        Heh
      • There's not too much space in these
      • Almost all are partially paid with Spanish public money
      • And that implies logos
      • brianfreud
        kovacsur: re dates, in batch, maybe you're right to leave them out
      • rswarbrick
        Heh :-)
      • brianfreud: In http://musicbrainz.org/edit/16027388, should we be killing the work as well? Or is it supposed to survive?
      • kovacsur
        brianfreud: yeah, I think so, too. Maybe if it also worked on search results pages it would make more sense, but not from artists' works lists
      • reosarevok
        rswarbrick, orphaned works are autoremoved
      • rswarbrick
        Ah, I thought it still had a composed relation. Ignore me :-)
      • brianfreud
        I had actually been thinking more along fields per work, rather than globally
      • maybe that'd be too noisy
      • reosarevok
        Dunno if *too* but quite
      • And tiresome
      • brianfreud
        I ended up adding the hide ability to the tagger for just that reason D:
      • :D
      • brianfreud hates laptop keyboards
      • reosarevok
        I'd rather have another script to update dates like mad
      • rswarbrick
        While I'm pestering brianfreud... (sorry!) should the recording & track list responsible for http://musicbrainz.org/edit/16027262 also get changed? Or was this genuinely misnamed on the CD or something?
      • reosarevok: Working on it :-) (but it won't be a userscript: I reckon hunks of CL code are more usable by me. Sorry!)
      • brianfreud
        it'd be so nice to have a script to do that... date support came too late for Dylan's performance of work ARs
      • reosarevok
        CL = Common Lisp?
      • rswarbrick
        Yep. That said, I think I might not make non-browser-based code that makes edits public: probably lots of potential for havoc...
      • It was convenient for tagging lots of recordings with works (more than fitted on the recordings page) though.
      • nikki
        how many people do you think know what to do with lisp code anyway? :P
      • rswarbrick
        Ah, well. :-)
      • nikki
        (and we already have public python bots)
      • rswarbrick
        I'll happily stick it up on github if anyone would find it useful. But I wasn't going to work on frontends. I think it's better as a "How can I solve the following problem for the recordings in front of me" sort of thing.
      • reosarevok
        I S2 bots
      • rswarbrick
        And I'm rubbish at writing guis...
      • Is S2 a verb? (I'm genuinely confused!)
      • reosarevok
        It's a heart
      • Somehow
      • The mix of Spanish keyboard
      • rswarbrick
        Ah!
      • reosarevok
        *US keyboard
      • With Spanish layout
      • Means I have no less than symbol :(
      • nikki
        how come?
      • rswarbrick
        Heh. Feel free to copy + paste: <>
      • reosarevok
        In a Spanish keyboard, less than is at the left of Z
      • In this keyboard, there's nothing there
      • nikki
        oh right
      • reosarevok
        I've pressed lots of other random keys and can't find it :p
      • rswarbrick
        What's to the right of M?
      • (with shift)
      • reosarevok
        ; : _
      • nikki shakes her head at us keyboards having fewer keys
      • rswarbrick
        Fair enough.
      • reosarevok
        (as in a normal Spanish keyboard)
      • I can see that the US layout has it there
      • rswarbrick
        That's because Americans find all these buttons confusing...
      • reosarevok
        (it's printed)
      • But...
      • rswarbrick
        Ah, I see.
      • nikki
        rswarbrick: well surely if they're that confusing, just one less is still far too many :P
      • kovacsur
        try the backtick
      • left of the 0
      • rswarbrick
        One solution is to switch layouts again! (Typing this on Dvorak)
      • reosarevok
        �!"�$%&/()=?� is my upper line
      • Spanish uses more stuff than English (that's why we need more keys! :) )
      • Well, my upper line on shift that is
      • rswarbrick
        I was going to say: calculations must be hard :-)
      • Don't you guys use AltGr heavily as well?
      • nikki
        the germans do
      • rswarbrick
        I'm still shuddering after teaching a German how to write C.
      • kovacsur
        and the hungarians :p
      • nikki
        haha
      • rswarbrick
        The {} are on AltGr somewhere on the top right.
      • My qwerty touch typing is rusty as it is. On a German kezboard, it's even more fiddlz.
      • reosarevok
        \|@#�}][{
      • Are our altGrs
      • So, mostly for @
      • And for piping sometimes
      • (and we don't have tilde)
      • nikki
        you need altgr + 7 to 9 for { [ ] and }