hawke_1: now imagine something where you have "Classics: Up to Date" and mb has "Up to Date" because "Classics" is some series name or something like that that we didn't put in the title
2013-05-01 12110, 2013
hawke_1
nikki: then you’ll never find it because who knows where in the 1442 pages of results it wills how up?
2013-05-01 12128, 2013
nikki
ime near the top.
2013-05-01 12129, 2013
hawke_1
aside from that, anyone who’s ever used a search engine can probably deal with it.
2013-05-01 12134, 2013
nikki
I can't think of the last time (other than searching for tracks where we had more than one page of identically named ones) that I had to go to the second page to find what I wanted
2013-05-01 12128, 2013
hawke_1
nikki: that relies on you knowing that we actually have what you want.
2013-05-01 12159, 2013
drsaunde
hooray hooray hooray for May!!!!!!!
2013-05-01 12121, 2013
drsaunde has had one day off work in the last 30
2013-05-01 12126, 2013
nikki
hawke_1: how so? if we don't have what we want, I'm not going to find it on any of the later pages either :P
2013-05-01 12135, 2013
nikki
err
2013-05-01 12137, 2013
nikki
what I want, I mean
2013-05-01 12142, 2013
hawke_1
How do you know?
2013-05-01 12109, 2013
hawke_1
Do you page through every result before concluding that we don’t have it?
2013-05-01 12129, 2013
hawke_1
Or do you *always* find what you want in the first page?
2013-05-01 12130, 2013
nikki
no, because I know that by the time I get into the results with low scores, they're just matches on things like "the" and are such a poor match that if what I wanted was there, it would be higher up :P
2013-05-01 12134, 2013
hawke_1 notes that on page 5016 it just says “fuckit” and stops giving a score.
2013-05-01 12123, 2013
CatQuest
reosarevok>
2013-05-01 12124, 2013
CatQuest
Yeah, it really feels like if you give it advanced queries you want an AND <-- iagree for advanced query
2013-05-01 12132, 2013
CatQuest
but in general i find our search to be ok
2013-05-01 12149, 2013
reosarevok
in general, sure
2013-05-01 12154, 2013
reosarevok
It's just when you are like
2013-05-01 12101, 2013
reosarevok
tracks:15 label:Whatever
2013-05-01 12108, 2013
CatQuest
and i don't really care about "score" nor do i pay attention to it
2013-05-01 12118, 2013
reosarevok
When it's kinda silly to assume you want all stuff that is *either* 15 tracks or on the label Whatever
2013-05-01 12122, 2013
reosarevok
(or both)
2013-05-01 12125, 2013
CatQuest
yes! thats when i'm like "wtf why wont you work?!"
2013-05-01 12127, 2013
reosarevok
Instead of just both
2013-05-01 12145, 2013
reosarevok
But in general I have no big problems with the search - just those
2013-05-01 12127, 2013
hawke_1
reosarevok: I have no big problems with the search generally, i.e. it mostly works; but it definitely still includes things in crappy nonsensical order
drsaunde The Coup - Breathing Apparatus (Steal This Album 1998)
2013-05-01 12123, 2013
drsaunde
aw yeah!
2013-05-01 12136, 2013
derwin
nice1
2013-05-01 12144, 2013
derwin
that album is Real Deep
2013-05-01 12120, 2013
derwin
"Me & Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night" may be one of the deepest songs ever written in the genre of hip-hop
2013-05-01 12104, 2013
drsaunde
agreed
2013-05-01 12124, 2013
derwin
I live quote close to Oakland, heh
2013-05-01 12150, 2013
drsaunde
then of course there's the original cover of "Party Music"
2013-05-01 12130, 2013
derwin
yeah... lol :/
2013-05-01 12139, 2013
derwin
I know a guy who bought a promo copy
2013-05-01 12140, 2013
derwin
with that cover
2013-05-01 12146, 2013
VxJasonxV
will http://musicbrainz.org/edit/21964625 work the way I want it too? I don't care about the data in the base release, I want to merge it's recordings/track IDs into the target release
2013-05-01 12152, 2013
VxJasonxV
use all of the information in the target release
2013-05-01 12159, 2013
kepstin_
hmm. you can't link a group member using the top-level 'vocals' type? you have to pick a subtype :/
VxJasonxV: should those really be merged? they have different discogs links
2013-05-01 12153, 2013
kepstin_ wonders what he should do in the mean time
2013-05-01 12108, 2013
nikki
annotation?
2013-05-01 12158, 2013
VxJasonxV
they're the same release. one has worse data
2013-05-01 12110, 2013
kepstin_
I suppose.
2013-05-01 12112, 2013
VxJasonxV
in my mind, yes, they should be merged, if for no other reason than to preserve acoustids
2013-05-01 12123, 2013
nikki
VxJasonxV: so why do they have different discogs links?
2013-05-01 12129, 2013
kepstin_ knows which one is the lead vocalist, so he sets that; the others he's not sure about.
2013-05-01 12155, 2013
VxJasonxV
because discogs has the same problem mbz does
2013-05-01 12130, 2013
nikki
they seem to be different editions in discogs. one has an extra barcode
2013-05-01 12143, 2013
hawke_1
according to discogs one is the box set limited edition
2013-05-01 12144, 2013
VxJasonxV
regardless, it doesn't have data that has to differ on the level of an entirely different release.
2013-05-01 12152, 2013
VxJasonxV
am I wrong about that?
2013-05-01 12103, 2013
hawke_1
with different release dates
2013-05-01 12142, 2013
nikki
and a usb stick, not that it says what's actually on it
2013-05-01 12144, 2013
hawke_1
I would say they are clearly different releases.
2013-05-01 12108, 2013
VxJasonxV
:(
2013-05-01 12110, 2013
hawke_1
The limited edition contains the other one, plus some bonuses I guess
2013-05-01 12103, 2013
Cook879 joined the channel
2013-05-01 12142, 2013
nikki
VxJasonxV: you could however add a new release based on the one you're currently merging into and merge the one you're currently merging into that new one, that would probably be a lot easier than trying to clean it up and merge all the recordings
