#musicbrainz

hello everyone

Happy New Year and all that.

明けましておめでとうございます！🍾🥂

akeome!

Toshikoshi Soba is awesome.

I've never tried it, but I like soba noodles, so 😋

It wouldn't be exactly the same, but you could use miracle noodles, or whatever they are called, where you are located.

Shirataki?

Yes.

You just have to wash the hell out of htem.

I can (somewhat) easily get those, but then there's also the issue of sugar in the broth.

takes a bit of practice, but you can sub monk fruit or other sugar alcohols

Might be worth a try

just don't add to much your your arse could be a substitute for a raptor engine

Oh believe me, I know that all too well.

you have a sec to provide a bit of clarity?

I'm getting back on Keto.

Clarity?

Yeah. I may have borked an entry for an artist.

Link pls

just a sec

What's the issue? I don't see anything amiss at first glance.

Erik Flanagan is the legal name of the artist. He performs and XAMOUNT, MPX and Unit F

OK?

What is the appropriate way to add aliases? I saw several ways to do it.

I assume these are all separate projects?

^ These are a good place to start.

I read through that.

He is credited under different aliases for different works/gigs.

My confusion is where to add the aliases.

If the stuff he makes under each name is not conceivably connected to one another, they can be considered separate projects, which necessitates separate artist entities.

Under in the relationships tab there is "Performs As". Then there is an Aliases tab.

I wouldn't use aliases in this case.

I'm not super familiar with electronic music and its conventions; there are better editors to ask about this.

Freso is a good one to ask, but he's not online right now.

So I should remove XAMOUNT as an alias and add it as "performs as"

Yes.

You can use Erik Flanagan as the hub to link them all together.

ok. I will do that. Sometimes the DB hates me.

It can be a tricky beast. I've been here 9 years and I'm still stumped by some aspects of it.

I'm trying to do the right thing and ass as much detail as possible... but some of these guys are Ethereal, especially with electronic distribution

And ephemeral

That is a gospel comment in regards to that genre if I have ever read any!

I feel like eating service revolver; I just tried explaining to the GF what I was working on.

"Why do are you adding to the database. Why does it matter. Why don't you just use youtube. Why do you need to have more than 50 songs with you? yada yada yada...

YouTube doesn't have everything

And even if it does, chances are it's not all available everywhere (e.g. where you live).

Been there, done that, been burned quite a few times.

Yeah. Exactly

Case and point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPnasp6al3I

This shows up for me as "unavailable"

Luckily I managed to import a CD from Japan that had it.

Also there's the omnipresent risk that something you like may be pulled for whatever reason. Recently Heart's 1985 self-titled album was pulled from digital services for no apparent reason.

(see also, Taylor Swift)

Barry Manilow - You're Looking Hot Tonight?

Yep. It's not available for me.

Probably geoblocked here in the US.

That's what I was thinking.

It's Manilow... you aren't missing much. :-)

Really? He has some really kick-ass stuff in his repertoire.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUtDL_mIA4c

The other day I was watching a Q&A where Barry Manilow claimed streaming services (namely Spotify) had every album he ever recorded… the Ace Attorney fangirl in me was brought out in that moment, if you know what I mean.

LOL yeah

Just giving you crap.

It's hard to tell with him.

kazeneko means outdoor animals, yes?

No, it means "wind cat"

It was the name of a character I created when I was ~14

You're probably thinking of "noraneko" (野良猫), which translates to stray or alley cat

ok. For some reason I thought it was japanese for outdoor creature. But... my language skills suck. I may have the romanji incorrect.

You were partially right. "Neko" (猫) literally means "cat."

Thank you for correcting me!

Fixed that edit.

どういたしまして😉

ah... and there is the hiragana to remind me that I am still partially illiterate. lol

You can run it through https://translate.google.com/ if you have to

better than katakana.

neah, I was good. just had to struggle for a moment. It builds character.

I'm trying to learn both at the same time... it's a continual and ongoing mistake.

lol, good way to learn

I guess it shows my age, huh?

This was around the time Pokémon was a national craze

I wanted to learn Japanese so I could be in the know before everything became common knowledge

um... I just unpacked some dusty boxes from my garage. Star Wars legos and Pokemon cards... so that should tell you something

Doesn't tell me much, actually

Unless you told me you had a movie edition Pikachu or something.

I have all the McDonald's toys

... and I wasn't 5 when they came out.

McDonald's? They were distributed by Burger King stateside.

…and in those balls that eventually led to a recall because little kids would put them over their faces and suffocate.

Yeah, I remember that now. They also sold the Pokeballs with golden cards.

I think I till have some of those somewhere.

I thought they'd be worth something some day.

then gave them away to younger family members that summarily destroyed most of them.

Got into Pokemon because a friend did. He was into all that stuff.

I didn't care all that much until I started going to tourneys with him and started winning money, then I magically became very interested.

Ah, 90s fads. They said the same thing about Beanie Babies.

Those were the days everyone was trying to flip things to make a quick buck, from houses on down.

lol

mind if I take a guess at something?

What might that be?

mil brat?

Sorry, I don't follow

You can use an [off] tag if you have to

that way it won't show up in the logs

formatting: [off] @username message?

Yes

minus the formatting, of course

like that?

Yes.