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what's the correct way to handle when a CD has a set of tracks that are listed as part of the same "track" in the liner notes?

should I number the tracks e.g. 7 8A 8B 8C 9?

actually never mind, haha - I guess they are one track after all, even in the CD metadata

flamingspinach: There used to be a doc about medley notation. I usually use some variant on it.

It was something like "Main Title: Song 1 / Song 2" and so on

On another note, I was worried something like this would happen https://musicbrainz.org/edit/39018295

hmm, seems like we're handling it correctly. it was caught, someone voted 'no'.

actually, on looking closer, this is a bit tricker than I thought :)

it looks like the artist was playing with the last fm music manager, and created this for testing. It might not have ever actually been available, but it did get saved in last.fm's database as an album :/

it's unclear whether the tracks were ever actually uploaded and available to the public.

the editor who added it used the last.fm album page as their only source, which isn't usually something i'd say is authoritative

CatQuest: Manaphy should be available starting today via Nintendo Network

CatCat: ^

Looking at: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/ff0d9297-d...

Think the Boy's Choir should be the Vienna Boys Choir https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vienna-boys-c...

And I think track 1 makes no sense! Cannot find a link though!

Who was it that had the date propagation script?

reosarevok: Feel like filing a ticket? https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-disam...

hibiscuskazeneko: loujine

Ah, thanks. I was looking for that.

Freso: that isn't a bug though, is it? It's expected behaviour

I mean it seems wasteful to check if they've entered something and it's unique and blah blah every time

Unfortunately Tampermonkey won't let me install any of those scripts

I guess we could un-redden it if they enter *anything*, dunno

It claims they're all invalid

hibiscuskazeneko: click on Raw

In my experience, it opens like three tabs, one of which works :p

There we go

None of the initial tabs worked

reosarevok: Yeah, I think that's what they want. I'm not really sure how/what to enter. Maybe I should just ask them to file a ticket themselves?

Nah, I guess I can add a ticket for that

And the devs can decide if they want it

Yeah.

Now does anyone know how to use the date script?

hibiscuskazeneko, what are you trying to do?

I'm trying to add dates to recordings on a live album without having to type them manually

hibiscuskazeneko: you need to add it to one relationship

My current method is 1) batch-add the Place relationship with date

2) batch-add the Event relationships

Then select the recording and click copy and it should work

(event rels probably don't allow dates though)

They don't

I thought that might be waylaying the script

I got it to work for 1 selected recording...

…and more multiple recordings! Yay!

:)

It's a super useful one

So maybe I need to wait to add the event relationship last...

If you can reproduce it erroring when there are rels that don't allow dates, you should probably raise a issue/ticket/something with loujine too :)

I'll have to test it again (which means scouring Discogs for another release in the series)

hmmmm https://beta.musicbrainz.org/artist/0133061a-15... and https://beta.musicbrainz.org/artist/b0dd43de-68... seem to be the same person....what are the rules on merging them?

Probably should just be artist credited as ?

Never mind I merged thme, think I did right :)

https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/39049288 if anybody is interested ;)

OK, so adding the event didn't make a difference with regard to copying dates

hibiscuskazeneko: so the script works fine for you?

It appears so.

What went wrong earlier was I had manually attached some dates and it disrupted the process.