#musicbrainz

it looks like the last CD is missing (if the order is correct...)

searching for a release with the keyword Bachakademie seems to work

It is not the same release (my box looks different than the image and has a different barcode).

But I guess that the actual content will most likely be the same...

I did something less direct: took one of the release from the label you mentionned, took one track on it and checked if the track existed on other releases

That is a good idea, will try next time as well :)

so I relied on the fact that somebody before filled the metadata correctly

if you have discID you should be able to add them to the release

that would be great

to answer your general question: if you need to add a new release where you know some information is already in musicbrainz, you can use the "add medium" button on the tracklist page and select the "existing medium" tab: then you can search for the existing release title and the recordings will be shared

i.e. all metadata will be filled automatically

I will add the discIDs. I am not quite sure yet what to do with my release though.

from the release group page I think you can "clone" a release

The release you pointed me to looks very much the same content-wise, but is different regarding the image, the label, and the bar code.

so you should probably clone the release first, then add barcode/discIDs on the new one

all tracks will be filled properly by the cloning operation

sounds good.

No clone button though....

"Add release" on the right side on the release group page IIRC

I tried that, but it did not add all mediums and tracks.

you'll have the standard first tab with the release info to fill, and the next tab will by default suggests to copy the 171 tracklists

Ah, nice :)

Let me try...

maybe I'm misremembering

there's also a userscript for faster release cloning, if you know how to install it

I'll have a look at it.

ah, the second tab is called "Release duplicates", and the existing release to clone is not selected by default

It appears to work; now to the cumbersome work of changing the medium titles to the correct ones...

ouch :)

Thanks for your help, loujine!

no problem

Sometimes I hate Musicbrainz - Adding a release based on the existing release, and changing the medium titles of the first 60 disks results in a 3 CD release :/ (https://musicbrainz.org/release/46692d35-d225-4...)

this just happened?

Yes.

No Idea why...

did you clone the release and rename in the same edit? can you check in "all my edits" that nothing else was submitted?

I will.

What I did is adding a release from the release group, then saying that the new release should be based on the old release. This actually resulted in a release with 171 mediums, of which I changed the title of 60. Then I just clicked on "Next...", "Next...", and added an edit comment.

urgh; anyway, the easiest is probably to clone again (and nothing else in the edit)

But, apparently, only three mediums were added.

I will do that :)

(Cloning again I mean)

the release you just created we can merge later in the correct one for cleanup

Perhaps my old laptop had some problems with such a large release...

Who knows. Stuff happens :)

No additional edits by me though.

Here we go again (gaslighting included): https://musicbrainz.org/edit/50043189

Hm, without doing any changes the resulting release had 0 mediums and 0 tracks. I will try the userscript for cloning later...

looks like an importnt bug then, if you have time, can you open an issue on tickets.metabrainz.org with a reference to our talk? (https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/brainzbot/music...)

maybe the edit timeouts because there's too much data to send

henning_: I think the cloning script just fills the first tab with the info of the cloned release (label, date...) to siæplify the creation; it should still fail the same way hen submitting the edit if indeed the problem comes from a timeout

CatCat, it seems now there's two works for this release: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/a0876143-9a55...

reosarevok, hi i've send a design for the task could you take a look if you get the time? thanks :)

Tecfan: I've merged https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/50045987

loujine: I will give it another try and check the browser console for timeouts... (will help me in creating the ticket)

Hm, it does not look like a timeout; there is only one POST request sent to musicbrainz.org, and the request payload does not contain any mediums/tracks.

interesting

I will have a look at the editing pages, to see if I overlooked a checkbox somewhere, or whatever else I could be simply doing wrong...

It seems that the logic when adding a release based on another release is as follows:

on the last tab, did you see the "Add medium" text for each CD?

What I just found out is that a medium will be added for each medium which I actively unfold on the "Tracklist" tab.

For all those mediums I do see an "Add medium" on the last tab.

For all mediums that I did not unfold, I do not see anything on the last tab - and they will also not be added to the release (although they are displayed on the TRacklist tab)

In my first attempt, I opened some mediums to double check that they are actually the same as in my release; that is why the created release contained some mediums (but not all).

So, is this intended behavior? Or is this worth a ticket?

I think it's worth a ticket, I don't see how this could be the expected behavior

you can also check with developers on #metabrainz

ok, thanks, I will.

but opening a ticket is never a bad idea :)

loujine: Ticket is open (https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9592)

MBS-9592: When adding a release based on some other release, not all mediums are created

Thank you for reporting that.

henning_: since you seem to know your way about the console, you could type "$(".expand-disc").click()" on the tracklist tab to trigger the creation of all mediums

loujine: This is a very neat idea! I will try that later (will be offline for a while now...)

see you later

Beta has just been updated. Check https://tickets.metabrainz.org/issues/?filter=1... for changes (mostly URL relationships)

yvanzo: which means my functionality is officially in a real website now! for some reason that feels sooooo satisfying

!m naiveai!!

You're doing good work, naiveai!!!

:)

thanks!

and so is yours, actually!

!m haruute[m]

You're doing good work, haruute[m]!

thanks too \o/ :D

naiveai, I always find it very satisfying when I write some code that people go on to use.