#musicbrainz

https://musicbrainz.org/release/57d89f30-5768-4... has kind of funny album art :)

(interestingly, if you look closely, you see that the vinyl used in that cover image *isn't* the original version. Which makes me wonder what the cover art on the original looked like)

haha, previously released at full price ...

kepstin_: I'm surprised you weren't familiar with that cover... April Wine is about as Canada as you can get :-)

someone on OS X, please help me test something: run in a terminal: python -c 'open(u"/tmp/" + u"\U00010916" * 255, "w")'

nikki: python -c 'print u"\U00010916"'

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

IOError: [Errno 63] File name too long: u'/tmp/\U00010916

and it repeated \U00010916 like 50 times

255 times to be exact :)

no

VxJasonxV: try replacing 255 with 64, and then with 64 please

definitely not 255 times

errm. 63 and then 64

clearly it fails before getting to 255

63 and 64 work

and 65

that's strange

wikipedia claims hfs+ uses utf-16 for the filenames

and u+10916 would apparently be two utf-16 characters

nikki: their docs says something ambiguous like 255 unicode units i think

try 127 and 128? :P

yes, please? :)

127 works

128 does not

see :P

<3 nikki

I'm bad at unicode

thanks

and again OS X folks, what does this say? python -c 'import sys; print sys.getfilesystemencoding()'

utf-8. :)

utf-8

anybody having failures submitting fingerprints from picard

could you be more specific? how is it failing?

timing out

It is possible it could be my connection, tbh

peaveyman_: acoustid is having problems at the moment

So it's not on my end, thanks

I have a question about medleys. I am entering a band that plays a live medley of three covers of songs from other bands. How do I enter that? An AR between work <-> recording, which I would normally use for covers, gives me the option for a medley, but I lose the live and cover attributes. So what else can I do? Should I create a new work and then have work <-> work ARs indicating the work is a medley? Or something else?

the best thing to do would be to propose adding the same attributes to the medley relationship :P

or removing the stupid cover attribute. ;-)

(there was a proposal to merge the two relationships, but it got stuck because it's hard to get the wording to work correctly if you do that)

(and I'm still not convinced merging them is the right thing to do anyway :P)

but I can't see why anyone could be against just making the two have the same attributes

haha... sounds like a good idea. But unfortunately I don't have enough time for the style discussions :)

I'll leave it on my todo list then :) Maybe I will have some more time in the future

thanks

I'm not sure how much discussing it would really need :P

Hehe, true. But I won't be near a computer for two weeks starting monday ;) I'll try and do it after that

ah XD

well, I hope you do :)

me too :)

peaveyman_: then it can;t recognise the songs

peaveyman_: you would need to submit it.

peaveyman_: how long is the track?

New post: blog: Upcoming feature: contested edit extension <http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=2004>;

putting the fun back in n-bombs

(well, depending on your idea of fun)

heh

mitigating their potential damage at least :)

there's more than one person who we're fairly sure has a saved edit search for edits with no-votes

so there's been a lot of things where it doesn't get any and then suddenly gets 3 :/

when I'm being a good, voting citizen I try to start in the middle of the queue. Guess I don't need to do that anymore.

well, wait until it's released :P

(well, for the plain *extension* it's already on beta. but the no-bomb fix isn't in effect yet)

ianmcorvidae: does this mean I can spam people by changing my vote between 'no' and 'abstain', or is that handled?

You probably can, but why would you

I wouldn’t, but someone might.

Or I might accidentally (and limitedly) by changing my mind twice.

Well, the latter doesn't seem a problem

The former we can deal with if it ever happens

And I mean, just leaving a note would spam just as usefully

perhaps

we can always burn that bridge when we come to it too, I guess

it's strange that someone can no-vote countless number of edits and never bear any consequences

i mean, voters are supervising the edits

Well, why should they, unless they're wrong No-votes

but who is supervising the voters?:)