#musicbrainz

now here's an ambiguous track

"・－・・ －－－ ・・・－ ・(signum/ii remix)"

artist credit: "cittan*＆江口孝宏"

so: do I put the artist down as "cittan*", join phrase "＆", "江口孝宏", or enter the entire string as a credit for https://musicbrainz.org/artist/66675a13-12de-41...

Since it's 2 artists, I'd use the artist credit string you listed.

because of the way it's credited?

(note that both cittan* and 江口孝宏 have the "members" relationship with signum/ii)

They're both individuals, are they not?

yeah

(I entered it as two separate artist links with the join phrase, for now)

rcombs: pls link the "・－・・ －－－ ・・・－ ・(signum/ii remix)" track :D

wait i found it

<3 our solr search

ll "grindcore karaoke" lolol

that's an awesome track

dunno about that

I have a dumb question.

I have some library books that I've ripped with Exact Audio Copy to the standards of a certain well-known but now defunct music tracker.

I know my log file produces a Cuetools discid. Is there a way to convert a Cuetools discid to a MusicBrainz discid?

iirc I used to use some website for that exact purpose

oh it may have been http://eac-log-lookup.blogspot.com/ but not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for

IT WORKS! Thank you so much bitmap

niice

For cases where you don't have a log there's some more info in https://community.metabrainz.org/t/submit-disc-... apparently

In case it's useful too :)

I'm a contributor for Redump.org, and I wish that we had such an awesome system.

Redump doesn't even have it's own API

This actually REALLY helps me out a bit since I broke one of my discs a while ago. And there are quite a few I can't be bothered to dig out

Here's a tip for people who like to use EAC: if you don't mind using an IDE to USB adapter, I've found that the HL-DT GCE-8483B is much faster than some of my newer drives.

ajshell1: you should have used cuetools/-ripper :p

for any ripped CD, it generates its own ID and DiscID in MB style :)

ajshell1: i still have my good old PX-760, which is enough for ripping ;)

SothoTalKer: Those Plextors are valuable! Redump only accepts CD dumps from those drives! Which is why I don't use EAC with them.

it depends on the type of disc, anything with audio tracks should be dumped by using a drive which is capable of overreading due to the offset issue.

it IS actually possible to use other drives too, but u need two of them and you must be lucky that they can overread. anyway, not the topic for this channel :))

I have a question. I have an audio book I picked up from a thrift store for a dollar. I want to add it to the database here, but I have some issues.

Here's the book: https://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Michaels-Audio-T...

Problem 1: The author is writing under a pseudonym

Problem 2: I have no idea how to handle the "written by X and performed by Y" thing

Problem 3: This has two books in one set.

The good news is that each disc contains a title for each track.

So,So, can you give me a basic idea on how to add a disc like this? I already have 200 something normal music albums under my belt, so I sort of know what I'm doing there.

Problem 1 is not a problem, is it?

You would just add his pseudonym as a separate artist und link the legal name via a relationship.

You could do it like this: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/21a3a1b8-b...

Release by Лев Николаевич Толстой translated by Constance Garnett read by Frederick Davidson

It's only really a problem in that I've never really had to deal with Pseudonyms before I guess

Also, one more thing:

Currently, we only have a 28 track version in the database

In 2014, he added another track, and then another in 2018. I'm definitely going to add the 30 track version, but should I add the 29 track version since it's sort of impossible to get now?

a pseudonym is the same as any artist name like "DJ blabla"

well, u cant get the 28 track version now, either?

Actually, if you bought the game's soundtrack on Humble Bundle, you still get the 28 track version IIRC

if it were a phyical release, each would be a separate one

Meh. I'll add it.

i hate digital releases (:

Same here. Give me CDs, give me FLAC, or give me death

Vinyl can suck it!