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      • hawke_1
        reosarevok: So that it shows *something* for artists who have no RGs, of course. :-)
      • 2012-05-18 13916, 2012

      • dubwai
        Perfroms as: artist1, artist2 and so on
      • 2012-05-18 13932, 2012

      • kepstin-work would actually put the relationships /before/ the release group list on the overview page.
      • 2012-05-18 13947, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        (but only some relationships; maybe whitelist a few for overview display)
      • 2012-05-18 13949, 2012

      • reosarevok
        kepstin-work: agreed
      • 2012-05-18 13902, 2012

      • dubwai
        performe as must be anyway
      • 2012-05-18 13911, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But but but that's like old MB - are we just being nostalgic? 8)
      • 2012-05-18 13938, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Anyway, I'd agree - but the problem with that is for example a band with a lot of member change
      • 2012-05-18 13954, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        after X relationships, cut the list off?
      • 2012-05-18 13958, 2012

      • reosarevok
      • 2012-05-18 13914, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        (you'd have a more... button to show the hidden relationships, which would take you to the relationships tab)
      • 2012-05-18 13924, 2012

      • reosarevok
        heh
      • 2012-05-18 13929, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        maybe use AR dates to only show current members
      • 2012-05-18 13934, 2012

      • reosarevok
        That's starting to sound more like classic MB with each step
      • 2012-05-18 13935, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        or for ended artists, members at time of end
      • 2012-05-18 13958, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But it does sound reasonable
      • 2012-05-18 13959, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        I mean, we might as well use AR dates for /something/ ;)
      • 2012-05-18 13904, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Especially if not displayed like that
      • 2012-05-18 13907, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But on a line
      • 2012-05-18 13920, 2012

      • reosarevok
        "Members: A, B, C, D, E"
      • 2012-05-18 13931, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (now it sounds like discogs)
      • 2012-05-18 13944, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (but I think they do have a decent design for that)
      • 2012-05-18 13946, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        "Current Members: A (1987-), B (1991-), C (founder), D
      • 2012-05-18 13929, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        "
      • 2012-05-18 13940, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        (missing closing quotes are almost as bad as missing closing parens)
      • 2012-05-18 13904, 2012

      • reosarevok feels that kepstin-work feels like mockuping :p
      • 2012-05-18 13926, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        no, I /am/ doing actual work at work.
      • 2012-05-18 13940, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I said "feel" :p
      • 2012-05-18 13942, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        maybe this weekend, except that I wanted to work on musicbrainz library for riker.
      • 2012-05-18 13946, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Not "will rush to do it"
      • 2012-05-18 13901, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Substitute sleep with caffeine and you can do both! 8)
      • 2012-05-18 13924, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (mostly kidding)
      • 2012-05-18 13930, 2012

      • kepstin-work still kind of misses his awesome design on http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mbmockups/release.html
      • 2012-05-18 13949, 2012

      • dubwai
        reosarevok: so i found situation that 2 performs of one person, both no his legal name
      • 2012-05-18 13955, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Why do you miss it? It's there:p
      • 2012-05-18 13914, 2012

      • reosarevok
        dubwai: do you know what the legal name is?
      • 2012-05-18 13924, 2012

      • dubwai
        yes
      • 2012-05-18 13930, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Then add that, and relate both to it
      • 2012-05-18 13939, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (a bit like works and recordings, come to think of it :) )
      • 2012-05-18 13942, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        that was an interesting hack, because it was actually made by adding an additional stylesheet on top of the musicbrainz stylesheet.
      • 2012-05-18 13945, 2012

      • brianfreud
        kepstin-work, problem I'm finding with even the current version, but even more with that mockup, is that on my new 24", the durations are WAY too far separated from the titles
      • 2012-05-18 13904, 2012

      • kepstin-work
      • 2012-05-18 13908, 2012

      • brianfreud
        the light light background color is too light to follow across the screen, the way black cell borders do
      • 2012-05-18 13909, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Legal names are works to performance names' recordings?
      • 2012-05-18 13919, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Hmmm
      • 2012-05-18 13922, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Maybe!
      • 2012-05-18 13932, 2012

      • dubwai
        reosarevok: so enter fake entier just to connect them?
      • 2012-05-18 13933, 2012

      • brianfreud
        kepstin-work, far beter :)
      • 2012-05-18 13949, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Well, it's not fake, it's a legal name artist :)
      • 2012-05-18 13949, 2012

      • brianfreud
        it's reminding me of some other site, though I can't place which one
      • 2012-05-18 13909, 2012

      • dubwai
        but it will be without any releases or recordings
      • 2012-05-18 13914, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        brianfreud: I am using the generic twitter bootstrap stuff on that page. It should remind you of half the sites on the internet.
      • 2012-05-18 13925, 2012

      • brianfreud
        lol, true enough
      • 2012-05-18 13933, 2012

      • brianfreud HATES the new Jamendo
      • 2012-05-18 13948, 2012

      • reosarevok
        kepstin-work, can I suggest loading the end of the lines in http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mbmo… ?
      • 2012-05-18 13900, 2012

      • reosarevok
        It feels kinda silly to press expand to see the bottom of "lyricist"
      • 2012-05-18 13903, 2012

      • brianfreud
        Anyone know any sites with a similar service to http://api.online-convert.com/ ?
      • 2012-05-18 13903, 2012

      • reosarevok
        :)
      • 2012-05-18 13928, 2012

      • reosarevok
        dubwai: in a lot of cases, legal names are the ways stuff like "lyricist" is credited
      • 2012-05-18 13930, 2012

      • brianfreud
        ie, send them an image in any format via a ws API, get back an image in the format you specify?
      • 2012-05-18 13932, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        reosarevok: I purposefully cut it off at half a line to give a visual clue that there is more below that you can expand to see.
      • 2012-05-18 13933, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But sometimes yeah, they're empty
      • 2012-05-18 13939, 2012

      • reosarevok
        kepstin-work: oh, I see
      • 2012-05-18 13945, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But there's not :p
      • 2012-05-18 13949, 2012

      • reosarevok
        That's kinda my point
      • 2012-05-18 13955, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        reosarevok: but yeah, in the case where there's not, I should show the whole thing
      • 2012-05-18 13919, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        (I need to be clever about it, to keep the vertical rhythm stable)
      • 2012-05-18 13931, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Vertical rhythm
      • 2012-05-18 13932, 2012

      • reosarevok
        heh
      • 2012-05-18 13934, 2012

      • reosarevok
        designers
      • 2012-05-18 13943, 2012

      • kepstin-work isn't a designer! he just dabbles ;)
      • 2012-05-18 13909, 2012

      • reosarevok is still a fan of the old-school "just put all the info there in a crap-ass list"
      • 2012-05-18 13918, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But for casual browsing, that looks nice
      • 2012-05-18 13923, 2012

      • kepstin-work actually designed a website for something in exchange for a gmail invite back when it was in early beta.
      • 2012-05-18 13932, 2012

      • brianfreud
        kepstin-work, maybe this sounds too google-plus, but I like the amount of whitespace on the sides; it gives someone like me room to add stuff :P
      • 2012-05-18 13945, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Like a cat!
      • 2012-05-18 13959, 2012

      • dubwai
        reosarevok: look if artist "Herman" and he had alias tupe legal name "Herman Chin-Loy" may be connect another entier "The Teacher" to just "Herman" ?
      • 2012-05-18 13912, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        brianfreud: that's using an old version of bootstrap - newer ones would actually stretch it out /slightly/ wider for you.
      • 2012-05-18 13915, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I guess you could
      • 2012-05-18 13924, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        but hey, you could always use the extra space for userscripts ;)
      • 2012-05-18 13941, 2012

      • reosarevok
        As you can see, our implementation of the whole performance+legal name thing is a bit amateurish :)
      • 2012-05-18 13906, 2012

      • kepstin-work also has http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mbmockups/ac-editor.html whish is kind of fun.
      • 2012-05-18 13917, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        drag+drop artist credit editor :)
      • 2012-05-18 13907, 2012

      • dubwai
        this blue color is not good for me ))
      • 2012-05-18 13908, 2012

      • reosarevok
        It'd be more impressive if one could actually change the credits
      • 2012-05-18 13924, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (and see them change up there)
      • 2012-05-18 13915, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        well, it was a /very/ quick javascript hack. I put no effort into that
      • 2012-05-18 13920, 2012

      • reosarevok
        :)
      • 2012-05-18 13936, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        but yes, a live-updating preview is certainly possible.
      • 2012-05-18 13921, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Anyway, I want a better MB page, but I have an MB page
      • 2012-05-18 13937, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I want an MB player and I have none, so concentrate on that first! ;)
      • 2012-05-18 13943, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        heh
      • 2012-05-18 13952, 2012

      • dubwai
        reosarevok: adding this "fake" legal name entires work not good work, when someone add to them releases instead of main entires
      • 2012-05-18 13919, 2012

      • brianfreud joined the channel
      • 2012-05-18 13931, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Agreed. We clearly need artist groups!
      • 2012-05-18 13945, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (only half-kidding)
      • 2012-05-18 13909, 2012

      • dubwai
        also bad thing that you don't get email notifacaion if don't subscribe
      • 2012-05-18 13911, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        I'm still not sure of where exactly I'm going for the design of riker. Does a standalone music player still make sense nowadays?
      • 2012-05-18 13930, 2012

      • reosarevok
        What's the other option?
      • 2012-05-18 13906, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        reosarevok: I dunno, something like that tomahawk music player, where it has distributed library support and the ability to play web media and playdar stuff?
      • 2012-05-18 13914, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        (but no musicbraizn support, arg!)
      • 2012-05-18 13943, 2012

      • reosarevok
        "playdar" sounds like "gaydar"
      • 2012-05-18 13946, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (go Bender!)
      • 2012-05-18 13951, 2012

      • reosarevok
        What is it?
      • 2012-05-18 13927, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I haven't looked into this Tomahawk thing... but I mean, what's "standalone" nowadays?
      • 2012-05-18 13936, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Is it like Diablo III single-player?
      • 2012-05-18 13948, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        reosarevok: no, like DIablo II single-player.
      • 2012-05-18 13905, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Oh, so it's still the reasonable thing I can use without the net
      • 2012-05-18 13906, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Good
      • 2012-05-18 13909, 2012

      • reosarevok
        That's sensible
      • 2012-05-18 13924, 2012

      • reosarevok
        That being said, I'm happy to have other things on top
      • 2012-05-18 13935, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        well, dynamic musicbrainz metadata updates wouldn't work offline, but it caches metadata locally so you could still use it.
      • 2012-05-18 13940, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Say, "if MB has a soundcloud page, add a soundcloud tab where you can play its contents"
      • 2012-05-18 13922, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        reosarevok: the thing is, I have multiple computers with copies of my music library. I should have them synchronized somehow - what does that mean?
      • 2012-05-18 13943, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        (my desktop has all my music as flac, my laptop has the same music, re-encoded to vorbis)
      • 2012-05-18 13959, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Easy!
      • 2012-05-18 13904, 2012

      • reosarevok
        That you're a music nerd
      • 2012-05-18 13909, 2012

      • reosarevok
        :)
      • 2012-05-18 13918, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        the ideal would mean syncing as much stuff as possible /through/ the musicbrainz api
      • 2012-05-18 13934, 2012

      • reosarevok
        So you would want it to keep track of it and map it?
      • 2012-05-18 13935, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        so stuff like rating on one would save the rating to mbz, and it would then update in the other
      • 2012-05-18 13956, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Well, if it has the same MBID that should be simple...
      • 2012-05-18 13904, 2012

      • reosarevok
        "simple"
      • 2012-05-18 13908, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        keeping track of playcounts could be done initially through an audioscrobbler service, but that doesn't support syncing in reverse due to no mbids.
      • 2012-05-18 13910, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Not that I know how to do it
      • 2012-05-18 13914, 2012

      • noobie
        when exactly does changing artist info become auto-edit?
      • 2012-05-18 13932, 2012

      • hawke_1
        noobie: When you’re only adding information
      • 2012-05-18 13933, 2012

      • reosarevok
        noobie: when you only add stuff and don't change anything that's there, I think
      • 2012-05-18 13935, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        noobie: adding information to a currently blank field.
      • 2012-05-18 13937, 2012

      • reosarevok
        hah
      • 2012-05-18 13946, 2012

      • noobie
        i just renamed an artist
      • 2012-05-18 13955, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Only capitalisation changes?
      • 2012-05-18 13957, 2012

      • noobie
        yep
      • 2012-05-18 13907, 2012

      • hawke_1
        Anyone know how I should put a begin date of “the 1950s”?
      • 2012-05-18 13916, 2012

      • hawke_1
        1950, and annotation?
      • 2012-05-18 13925, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        hawke_: 1952-04-12
      • 2012-05-18 13930, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Capitalisation changes are autoedits
      • 2012-05-18 13935, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (for basically everything)
      • 2012-05-18 13947, 2012

      • dubwai
        reosarevok: so artist groups are planned?
      • 2012-05-18 13952, 2012

      • reosarevok
        dubwai: not really
      • 2012-05-18 13900, 2012

      • hawke_1
        kepstin-work: I like it. :-)
      • 2012-05-18 13901, 2012

      • kepstin-work dislikes capitalization changes being auto-edits, but then again he edits weird japanese stuff that people keep breaking the purposefully 'wrong' capitalization on.
      • 2012-05-18 13904, 2012

      • reosarevok
        There are no big big changes planned for now
      • 2012-05-18 13917, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But I can see something like that existing at some point
      • 2012-05-18 13953, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        once we store scripts for stuff, we could do something clever like only allowing capitalization autoedits for scripts with capitalization :)
      • 2012-05-18 13916, 2012

      • reosarevok
        hawke_1: asking for "circa" dates for the next schema change?
      • 2012-05-18 13917, 2012

      • reosarevok
        8)
      • 2012-05-18 13918, 2012

      • brianfreud joined the channel
      • 2012-05-18 13921, 2012

      • hawke_1
        Maybe I should just…yeah, that. :-)
      • 2012-05-18 13931, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        but yeah - anyone guess what the issue with playdar is?