#musicbrainz

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musicbrainz needs some way for clients to know if data for a particular MBID has changed.

it really does

then clients can safely cache things locally

yeah

do we use ETags at least?

I feel like we do

ostensibly that could at least save some bandwidth, if not server work

hm, I don't see any

there's mention of it in the makefile, but that's about it.

heh, our HTML pages have ETags, but not WS stuff

also evidently we're returning '304 OK' rather than '304 Not Modified'

urgh

terrible

heh, MBS-358 has almost no information on what's blocking it, what needs doing, etc.

(actually, not almost: just plain no information)

huh, wow, turning on chromium's experimental flag for using GPU to help with canvas 2D rendering really helps the MB timeline graph

(well, on an alternate site where it actually works, since it's currently broken on the main site)

Would somebody mind approving this edit? http://musicbrainz.org/edit/16432848

jacobbrett: no problem!

Awesome, thank you!

hrglgrmpf, if you feel like it, you could also vote on a few other edits to clean this release's tracklist up http://musicbrainz.org/release/7dcd70e3-6000-4a...

will do :-)

Hmm, can anybody tell me if merging two releases will also merge their recordings (dupe recordings for a dupe release, sigh)?

I think there's an option on the merge releases screen to do that

Ah, silly me "Merge mediums and recordings". Thanks.

hi everyone, are there vinyl specialists here ? ^^

I have a Lonnie Johnson vinyl where I don't know how to choose the label : Storyville is the most obvious but there are numerous mentions (on the cardboard) of Pure Pleasure Analogue and the cat. no seems to contain both: "PPAN SLP162"

so idk if Pure Pleasure should only be considered as the manufacturer or if it's a label

might be a rerelease by PPAN

looks like that record isn't present in the current Storyville catalogue, the original SLP release is from 1963

I'd use Pure Pleasure Analogue

It seems you're right, lookin in the PP catalog it seems to be a re-release : http://www.purepleasurerecords.com/product_info...

just be sure to dig up the rerelease date somewhere

it's right there on that page :)

hey

Is it possible to edit 2 tracklists at the same time (of the same release group)

kovacsur, 10 october 2008 isnt necessarily the release date, if that's what you mean

might just as well be the date they added it to their net shop

what bugs me is that there aren't any mention of another release date on the scans I have

btw, I was wondering for a few days: when you create a new release for a remaster, do you use the previous recordings or should you create new ones ?

He I want to tag an album that contains a medley: should I follow this proposal, because there is no right way to do this yet? http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Medley_Style

juhae, it's the site of the label itself. The date they added the release to their catalogue is when it became available

Sekhmetouserapis, remasters should be new recordings, especially if the person who did the remastering is known

the new and old recordings can then be linked through a remaster relationship http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Remaster_Relationsh...

ok, thanks

http://musicbrainz.org/recording/884828f5-aef7-... is this correct?

nvm

Do mind actually

Shouldn't it be the other way ?

after linking the old recordings and the remasters, should the person who was in charge of it credited as "mastering engineer" ? Or just mentioned in the annotation maybe ?

I usually simply use the "mastered" AR, I think it's sufficient

jacobbrett suggested also adding an annotation when you asked the same question last time :)

oh damn it, whats up with that '502 Bad Gateway'...

if i do big querys/edits i always get them.

editing tracklist of a bigger release is impossible

e.g. http://musicbrainz.org/user/Schika/edits

ehrgeiz: there's an open ticket for that. At least for the related problem that some big releases cannot be loaded at all

MClemo: thx. i think thats the ticket http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-3524 (the big release ticket might be related too)

how do I merge two releases ? http://musicbrainz.org/release/9aa6eb07-1cb1-41... and http://musicbrainz.org/release/f60f3c6f-1cb4-4a... are two discs of the same box ?

mat_: you only need to click "merge release" on both pages

the server will figure out the positions of both discs by itself in this case

oh, ok, that was hard :-)

thank you

no problem

awesome, I have just correlated a musicbrainz-related tweet by a japanese person to their user account on musicbrainz, because they mentioned a release they just added.

yo

wow, stalker!kepsin

:O

heh

v6lur, what's with http://musicbrainz.org/artist/73c6c26c-16e0-45b... ?

is there an easy way to tell whether a Label in the musicbrainz db is affiliated with the RIAA?

No

Not from MB, at least

Is there a list of RIAA-affiliated labels anywhere?

I'd assume it would more be a list of publishers and/or corporations

So it wouldn't map cleanly

reosarevok there is, sec.

but yes, it doesn't do imprints, and is therefore of limited use.

So, frewsxcv: you could try to map names and it would help a little bit

But that's about all

reosarevok: map names to that RIAA website with the list of labels?

Yeah

i ask because i'm about to obtain ownership of http://riaaradar.com , which used to be a site that would show whether the imputted artist/album is RIAA affiliated

and i'm thinking about the logistics, maybe using musicbrainz or discogs

Neither of them would be specially simple

But if you can map imprints to their actual controlling companies

doesn't riaa.com provide all that info?

Clint: i can input an artist and it will tell me if their releases are RIAA affiliated?

if that functionality already exists in riaa.com, let me know

g remember that site :o

well hopefully i can find some people to help me with the site. the past guy wrote it in MSSQL and ASP.net and did most of the database population by hand

frewsxcv: ah, sorry, i was misremembering http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php

I remember that site too, glad to hear someone is resurrecting it

it seems like maintaining a list based semi-manually on the label

list from riaa.com, and then mapping to imprints and maintaining a database of relations to mb labels

you could do pretty well?