#musicbrainz

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      • dragonzeron
        ok
      • yeah I had a issue yesterday where the wikidata showed the artist and not the actual song itself
      • djr013
        yeah I've seen things like that
      • it usually means there's an issue on wikidata or wikipedia
      • for example, one album correctly linked to the wikidata page for that album, but the English Wikipedia link associated with that wikidata was actually a link to a redirect
      • so when you look at the album and it retrieves the English Wikipedia page associated with the album, it'll actually display the lede from the artist's article
      • dragonzeron
        yeah
      • wait djr013 dont you edit Haruko Momoi page a lot
      • djr013
        idk I don't recognize the name
      • dragonzeron
        oh its a japanese anime artist
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      • TehTotalPwnage
        Question, what makes the difference between a cover and an arrangement?
      • djr013
        yeah I'm not familiar with the name and it wasn't in my browser history, you might've seen me on a bunch of other japanese artists
      • dragonzeron
        ok
      • MajorLurker
        A cover is when somebody else is singing the song that is a "known" person
      • dragonzeron
        maybe me and you could work together
      • would a remix be considered a diffrent song
      • MajorLurker
        say the Beatles song "Help" it could be sung by any number of people but they are not the original artist so it would be a "cover"
      • dragonzeron
        or goes under a new work or no
      • Lotheric
        a remix is a recording, a song is a work
      • MajorLurker
        And an arrangement was explained to yesterday... I take song A that is written for guitar and arrange it so that it can be played on a trumpet
      • dragonzeron
        ok how about accoustic versions are they considered a new recording or a new work
      • TehTotalPwnage
        So cover refers to vocals then and not necessarily an instrumental arrangement?
      • Leftmost
        I think there can be instrumental covers.
      • I would say that covers are frequently (though not always) new arrangements in addition to being covers, but that not all covers are arrangements and not all arrangements are covers.
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      • Usually I'd say that a cover is when someone records a song which was originally written and performed by a different artist. There aren't "covers" of John Williams scores because they're written to be performed by others, but there are covers of Nirvana songs because they were written to be performed by Nirvana. Others may have different views.
      • MajorLurker
        I think that is a good explanation.
      • Leftmost
        (In fact, I would say The Bad Plus's version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a cover, though it's a purely instrumental arrangement.)
      • TehTotalPwnage
        Alright, I sort of get the idea now
      • It's a bit weird since on MusicBrainz, you can either create a new work and say that work is an arrangement, or just link to the original work as a cover
      • Lotheric
      • TehTotalPwnage
        What would your preferences be? New work + arrangement, or link original work as cover?
      • MajorLurker
        I would say a lot of instrumentals would be arrangements (if they take the original and make it sound like the song, for instance)
      • Leftmost
        I would usually only make a separate arrangement work if that arrangement is significant on its own, such as an arrangement which gets used by others.
      • A lot of CDs of Irish traditional music will say "trad., arr. by Altan", for example, but I wouldn't make an arrangement work because no one is taking that arrangement and reusing it as-is.
      • MajorLurker
        Yeah in that case I would just have the arranger in the relationships
      • TehTotalPwnage
        Awesome, that clears up a lot for what I'm trying to put in then, thanks!
      • Wish this was in the guidelines but oh well
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      • CatCat
        yea, that ought to be put in the guidelines
      • godt nytt år!
      • (og takk for det gamle!)
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      • Ashish
        Hey there..! Happy New Year everyone : )
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      • darwin
        and a happy new year to you
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      • Rotab
        vem skrattar?
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      • MajorLurker
      • what thinks you all?
      • Only difference is a few seconds in the track times
      • hibiscuskazeneko, is ^^ a language you can grasp a little?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Those images are hard to read because of all the glare and stickers
      • MajorLurker, were you replying to someone with that link?
      • MajorLurker
        No I was trying to determine whether they were the same
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      • I think they are Chi Mei seems to be some sort of organisation
      • http://tracktype.org/index.html?fDisc/1552372 is where I picked up the violinist name
      • All part of the, now finished, Dvorak cleanup
      • Which is not finished because I found this :)
      • Original release added 2003 from freeDb, just going to say it is the same
      • hibiscuskazeneko, sorry it was not so clear, there are 2 links there
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      • hibiscuskazeneko
        MajorLurker: It looks like that disc you found on eBay might be this release
      • The English track titles are printed on the back cover
      • MajorLurker
        I´m calling it as such.... add was in 2003 so ...
      • Rotab
        practially yesterday
      • MajorLurker
        yesterday was 2017 :)
      • Rotab
        :)
      • Lotheric lives in the past
      • MajorLurker
        As do most Canadians from Quebec
      • :)
      • naiveai
        > most Canadias ~~from Quebec~~
      • dragonzeron
        I think we might hit 50 million edit tonight
      • naiveai
        FTFY
      • dragonzeron
        do you think we can do it
      • Rotab
        sure, just do 4 million edits
      • MajorLurker
        lol
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      • LynXX
        Hi! I came across something weird: https://musicbrainz.org/release/441036c3-dcbf-3... The last track is 9:27, but none of the associated disc ID has a last track with a duration of 9:27
      • What am I missing?
      • MajorLurker
        That was added so long ago it is hard to say. It is likely tied up with the data track that has disappeared now.
      • dragonzeron
        no
      • we only need 4000 edits
      • to hit the 50 millionth edit
      • Rotab
        ?
      • oh yeah
      • LynXX
        Thanks, how would I fix it though? Since the track times can't be edited as there are disc IDs?
      • MajorLurker
        just set it from the discID
      • click it
      • set track durations
      • LynXX
        Oh I see! I was going the other way around, trying to edit the track list
      • MajorLurker
        Yeah you found you couldn´t :)
      • LynXX
        Great, thanks!
      • MajorLurker
        no worries
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      • KassOtsimine
        ferlorer???
      • MajorLurker
        ?
      • KassOtsimine
        btw, i wouldn't mind any more eyes on https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/49914727
      • it was something darwin wrote
      • MajorLurker
        oh yeah....
      • gibberish :)
      • dragonzeron
        2 more hours till 2018
      • MajorLurker
        blimey you´re way behind there ha
      • KassOtsimine
        almost an enitre day as to compair with you ey, mr lurker
      • MajorLurker
        bloody near
      • KassOtsimine goes to bed in any case
      • KassOtsimine
        natta!
      • MajorLurker
        good night :)
      • LynXX
        4 more hours for me :)
      • MajorLurker
        it will be 7pm here then
      • on the 1st
      • LynXX
        smells like Australia :) I used to live there
      • MajorLurker
        :) .... and you left?
      • LynXX
        ahah yeah, I had a good time, but it was just too far from home
      • MajorLurker
        Well it is a long way from most places :)
      • WHere is home now?
      • LynXX
        I leave in Seattle these days, but home is France technically
      • Where are you in AU? I used to live in Canberra
      • MajorLurker
        Down south, Victoria,
      • just out of Melbourne about 60km
      • bit quicker to home from Seattle
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      • LynXX
        hehe yeah :)
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      • hibiscuskazeneko
        welp, it's officially 2018 here
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      • MajorLurker
        finally
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        I'm on the other side of the International Date Line
      • MajorLurker
        Yes I know, 17 hours behind :)
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        The other 3 US time zones (including Alaska and Hawaii) still have at least an hour left
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      • dragonzeron
        happy new year