#musicbrainz

Interesting display of RGs http://musicbrainz.org/artist/c6a56d39-c476-4e8...

How long does it take for amazon ASIN to result in album having art?

I thought it was instant

Uh, well, I've added one and it still says no cover art.

navap: I hope there's a bug open for that RG display issue

(it's happening because both of the release groups in that artist have no type set)

kepstin: I created MBS-4817

man, I really wish gimp made proper use of multiple processors.

some things in it are really slow, and are using <¼ of my CPU power :/

pile on one side of my desk gets smaller, pile on the other gets bigger :)

man, the one problem with mbids is that you can't really write them down and expect people to type them in.

so, is a single for a theme song from a tv show a soundtrack single?

arg, they did that thing again where some of the tracks on the releases on the indie music bundle have mismatched sample rates :(

(that breaks album replaygain calculation)

kepstin: there was a time where we were talking about turning MBIDs into numbers and base64-encoding them as a sort of short-mbid

which might be better

it'd at least be shorter, I suppose

oh great - one of the things in this indie game music bundle appears to be a compilation of 4 different game soundtracks

the awesome bit: the music from each game is in a different subdirectory in the zip file

I'm adding a new album release but I can't the Add Artist Credit link for doing a feat. in the title...

Is that link in the Tracklist tab or Recordings tab?

Nevermind I just found it

so, are the separate folders in a release different sides? different media?

(they have titles, so media might be most appropriate)

and the numbering in each folder restarts at 1.

the person who originally added it to musicbrainz did it in an annoying way: http://musicbrainz.org/release/8b9d3e6a-7a03-46...

Different titled folders suggests to me that they be added as different mediums. What'll you do about Noitu Love and Noitu Love 2 tracks though?

navap: what about them? they're in separate folders.

track numbers 1-25 and 1-25

Anyone care to double check my edits? http://musicbrainz.org/user/billy_ran_away/edit...

Oh, I thought you had four folder but saw five games

I wish there was a better way to split a single medium in a release into multiple mediums

I suppose it doesn't come up often, though.

bah, I tried to do it in http://musicbrainz.org/release/8b9d3e6a-7a03-46... but the recording linking failed

Bah

I manually selected the recordings in each track, it should have worked :(

Ohhhh.

This is peer voted, isn't it?

kionmaru: all of the edits on musicbrainz go through a peer voting process, yes

kionmaru: you should read through http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Introduction_to_Voting to find out exactly how it works

kepstin: Yeah, I'm going to do that now.

I thought there were actual specific editors/reviewers

there are some editors (like me) called "autoeditors" with a few additional priviledges.

for example, I can immediately approve certain types of changes, instead of waiting for 2 weeks.

Ah.

Adding new albums not already on the site

This isn't the first time I've had to encode all my dad's CD's, and if I have to do it one more time I don't want to have to tag everything by hand

adding new albums isn't normally a problem on musicbrainz - they show up immediately, and you can tag in picard with them right away

feel free to ask in here if you have any issues - although it seems to be kind of quiet around at the moment :)

lol :) Uh

How do I give you my edits to look at - not to have you do anything with them, but as a quick check to make sure I haven't done anything egregariously stupid? And, *grabs picard* warp factor five...

just tell me your musicbrainz username, then I can search for your user page and see them there.

kionmaru.

:)

right, the url to see your edits is just http://musicbrainz.org/user/kionmaru/edits

Oh okay

Okay, picard *does* see it now.

looks ok in general, although I don't know anything specific about the release in question.

Still not pulling the amazon cover though.

Hey, I pretty much know what's on the CD

...and that's about it.

kionmaru: there's a bug on the server right now where the amazon covers aren't working, that'll be fixed within the week.

okay.

Sweet, ty, I must have spent half an hour trying to figure out how I was doing it wrong.

What happens if I get 0 votes?

kionmaru: it says on http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Introduction_to_Voting :)

but in general, if the edit goes 2 weeks with 0 votes, it just auto-passes

okay

there are 2,249 releases that are an exception to that

which is to say: 0.2% of our database

so don't worry about it :P

ianmcorvidae: any opinions on my edits on http://musicbrainz.org/release/8b9d3e6a-7a03-46... ?

i'm splitting a digital release into one medium per folder in order to make the folder titles visible, and have the track numbering make sense

hm

I'm unsure, I don't know that I have an opinion on this

kepstin: Actually, introduction to voting doesn't cover 0 votes.

Or if it does, I'm not parsing it right.

the digital release is basically a collection of 5 separate soundtracks stuck into a single zip file

kionmaru: it kind of does, in the flowchart image

kionmaru: look at the flowchart, yeah

kepstin: No, it specifies +1 yes or +1 no

(that's my addition, I haven't touched the rest of the page :P)

then maybe I'm getting a proxy buffer

there's a dashed-line saying "2 weeks" going from "Open, unappliend, no votes" to "Closed, applied"

yeah, there's a line for just "2 weeks"<

sneaky.

it's a complicated flow-chart

No

I'm tired.

the meanings of the line types aren't necessarily clear, I don't think

No, they aren't; but I should have figured that one out. Sorry. >.<

but it was sourced from a much more complicated flowchart describing a proposal, and I didn't change the lines :P

rather, that's the simplest flow-chart possible that covers the complicated and poorly-aging edit system :)

(people keep making plans to change/improve the edit system, but nothing's happened yet :)

ah, yes: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/secure/attachmen...

kepstin: presumably that's a template change, you could do it :P

ianmcorvidae: yeah, now that I know where the templates are :)

(I made up all the terms on that graph, incidentally, it was for a proposed change to describe the status of edits better :P)

my last attempt at a webservice change ended up crashing my dev server, though :)

:P

it turned out that I was missing a '->' in one place

lol

I hate that

anyways, midnight here and I should get some sleep :)

lol laters kepstin

ok, picked on now that's merely mediocre. I'm off ;)

umm

I assume CD TOC submission works on Indexed search, and cannot use direct search at all?

because it's digital media, UGH

?

No idea. *blinks*