#musicbrainz

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      • harad
        hello everyone
      • Happy New Year and all that.
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      • hibiscuskazeneko
        明けましておめでとうございます!🍾🥂
      • D4RK-PH0_
        akeome!
      • hibiscuskazeneko is 15 time zones behind D4RK-PH0_
      • harad
        Toshikoshi Soba is awesome.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        I've never tried it, but I like soba noodles, so 😋
      • harad
        It wouldn't be exactly the same, but you could use miracle noodles, or whatever they are called, where you are located.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Shirataki?
      • harad
        Yes.
      • You just have to wash the hell out of htem.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        I can (somewhat) easily get those, but then there's also the issue of sugar in the broth.
      • hibiscuskazeneko ran across this when she looked into making oden a while bacck
      • harad
        takes a bit of practice, but you can sub monk fruit or other sugar alcohols
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Might be worth a try
      • harad
        just don't add to much your your arse could be a substitute for a raptor engine
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Oh believe me, I know that all too well.
      • harad
        you have a sec to provide a bit of clarity?
      • I'm getting back on Keto.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Clarity?
      • harad
        Yeah. I may have borked an entry for an artist.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Link pls
      • harad
        just a sec
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        What's the issue? I don't see anything amiss at first glance.
      • harad
        Erik Flanagan is the legal name of the artist. He performs and XAMOUNT, MPX and Unit F
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        OK?
      • harad
        What is the appropriate way to add aliases? I saw several ways to do it.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        I assume these are all separate projects?
      • ^ These are a good place to start.
      • harad
        I read through that.
      • He is credited under different aliases for different works/gigs.
      • My confusion is where to add the aliases.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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.
      • harad
        Under in the relationships tab there is "Performs As". Then there is an Aliases tab.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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.
      • harad
        So I should remove XAMOUNT as an alias and add it as "performs as"
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Yes.
      • You can use Erik Flanagan as the hub to link them all together.
      • harad
        ok. I will do that. Sometimes the DB hates me.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        It can be a tricky beast. I've been here 9 years and I'm still stumped by some aspects of it.
      • harad
        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
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        And ephemeral
      • harad
        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...
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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.
      • harad
        Yeah. Exactly
      • hibiscuskazeneko
      • 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)
      • harad
        Barry Manilow - You're Looking Hot Tonight?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Yep. It's not available for me.
      • Probably geoblocked here in the US.
      • harad
        That's what I was thinking.
      • It's Manilow... you aren't missing much. :-)
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Really? He has some really kick-ass stuff in his repertoire.
      • 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.
      • harad
        LOL yeah
      • Just giving you crap.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        It's hard to tell with him.
      • harad
        kazeneko means outdoor animals, yes?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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
      • harad
        ok. For some reason I thought it was japanese for outdoor creature. But... my language skills suck. I may have the romanji incorrect.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        You were partially right. "Neko" (猫) literally means "cat."
      • harad
        Thank you for correcting me!
      • Fixed that edit.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        どういたしまして😉
      • harad
        ah... and there is the hiragana to remind me that I am still partially illiterate. lol
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        You can run it through https://translate.google.com/ if you have to
      • harad
        better than katakana.
      • hibiscuskazeneko learned katakana before she learned hiragana
      • 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.
      • hibiscuskazeneko learned them by copying the text off Pokémon cards
      • lol, good way to learn
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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
      • harad
        um... I just unpacked some dusty boxes from my garage. Star Wars legos and Pokemon cards... so that should tell you something
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Doesn't tell me much, actually
      • Unless you told me you had a movie edition Pikachu or something.
      • harad
        I have all the McDonald's toys
      • ... and I wasn't 5 when they came out.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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.
      • harad
        Yeah, I remember that now. They also sold the Pokeballs with golden cards.
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      • I think I till have some of those somewhere.
      • hibiscuskazeneko never had any of those
      • 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.
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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.
      • hibiscuskazeneko recalls an old Cathy strip that made fun of this, in the context of baby names
      • harad
        lol
      • mind if I take a guess at something?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        What might that be?
      • harad
        mil brat?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        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
      • harad
        formatting: [off] @username message?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Yes
      • minus the formatting, of course
      • harad
        like that?
      • hibiscuskazeneko
        Yes.
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