#musicbrainz

What should a Periscope URL be called? "Video channel" or "social networking"?

It's been a while since I've done this… http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-8992

Oh so that's what periscope is

(I've heard the name before but just as "Footballer does something stupid on Periscope")

I'd say social networking

It's more like "Live on Periscope: Footballer does something stupid" (filmed by a guy in the bleachers)

Hi, I seem to be having an issue trying to create a new release for any artist. When I click "Add Release", I get taken to a page that just says "Add Release" on it with no form or anything. Am I doing something wrong?

Example: https://musicbrainz.org/release/add?artist=7808...

It also seems that the navigation bar at the top stops functioning.

I don't see anything of note

What exactly are you trying to do?

Add a new release

Here's how it looks for me: https://i.imgur.com/zrH7NXu.png

Looks like it's not loading all the way

Try it again; it might have been a momentary hiccup

(I get those a lot)

Just cleared my cache and also tried it in incognito, it was doing this last night as well :/

jackwilsdon: do you have JS off?

I don't believe so, let me check my extensions.

I think if you're blocking JS that might do that maybe?

Other than that I dunno

Nope, not blocking JS :/

Check the JS console? (f12 probably)

Oddly enough my Chrome has been acting up lately, I can't open the console (even with right click -> inspect). I'm probably going to end up resetting my Chrome.

Be right back :)

There we go, nuked my Chrome settings and it seems to have sorted it

Thanks for the help am hibiscuskazeneko & reosarevok :)

np :)

Glad it works

Feel free to ask if you have any questions anytime!

So I'm currently adding an album from iTunes named "Good Grief - Single", I assume I remove the " - Single" suffix?

Yup

Unless it's on the cover to

*too

Which is rare for singles, of course, but if it was Good Grief EP on the cover then we'd keep the EP :)

Alright :)

So the label is "Virgin Records Ltd", do I put it under "Virgin" or "Virgin Records"? The description for "Virgin" on MusicBrainz is "worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and its subsidiaries".

Also is it me or are the MB docs broken? All of the links seem to tell me Page Not Found

What does the logo read?

It's not just you. The docs are hosted on the wiki, which is down.

The normal Virgin logo reads just "Virgin"; there are variants (e.g. Virgin Records, used only in Japan these days)

Yeah, we mostly follow the imprint which is mostly the logo :)

Ah, alright. I'm not sure what the logo reads, as it's on iTunes :P

oh :)

It says "℗ 2016 Virgin Records Ltd" on iTunes

Is it digital-only?

It could be Virgin or a Virgin sublabel or many other things. If unsure, just leave label blank

I'd check Discogs to see if they have any pictures of physical copies

(you can later add a "phonographic copyright" relationship to Virgin Records Ltd, which is what (P) there says)

Well it only came out yesterday but I haven't seen or heard anything about a physical release.

reosarevok: So put it under Virgin?

Hmm. It's Bastille? It's probably Virgin but not sure. Some lyrics site says ""Good Grief" is out June 16th, 2016 via EMI Virgin and Capitol Records"

Honestly I'd probably leave it blank, but that's because major labels are weird and confusing :D

reosarevok: Yes it is, I might leave the label blank for now then

reosarevok: Thanks :)

So if an album has - EP in the title on iTunes, does it go in the MB title too or do I remove it?

e.g. the iTunes title is "Moog for Love - EP" but the album art just says "Moog for Love"

jackwilsdon: Yes, remove "EP" from the title

You should add it as the release group type though

(iTunes does not support more than one release type, hence the title add-ons)

reosarevok: it's probably Virgin : https://www.facebook.com/bastilleuk/info/

how can i find the chart position of a song from the musicbrainz db?

You can't

We don't do any chart stuff or sales or anything like that at the moment

reosarevok: do you know a web database that holds that info?

Not really

either with api or scrapable

There might be one though, I just have never had any interest on the issue so I've never looked for one :)

reosarevok: what do you think of the muse blockchain?

Similarly, I haven

Er. haven't really looked into the stuff much

But the general consensus around #metabrainz of blockchain + music people is "they're well intentioned but have no idea what they're doing"

We'll see I guess!

why?

https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/metab... ;)

thx

i mean just because the ppl in the chat have no idea doesnt mean the ppl developing the blockchain have no idea what they're doing