#musicbrainz

very off topic, because I am an opinionated tech preacher; I do believe that those who champion the need for dark themes (1) turn their brightness up WAY TOO BRIGHT or as I call them: the glowing faces, or (2) have a legitimate visual reason for needing a darker theme.

That said, I also like dark themes, because I am a night owl.

I don't believe I have a legitimate / physical vision-related reason for needing it. I'm also (ideally) not a glowing face. Auto-brightness does its thing, but the base set brightness on my phones tends to be something like 15% or less.

on my devices*, and on my phone.

well, what is "way too bright" anyway?

white themes are usually thought of in the same way as things printed on white paper

but a backlit or emissive screen is about as far from that as you get

way too bright is glowing faces

anything that leads to eye strain or deterioration

and yes, the irony of this is that back in the day, even black was a light source

that's different in the LED era, of course.

well, even "LED" screens are just backlit LCD so it's still largely the case

but we finally do have some proper emissive OLED screens (and hopefully very soon, microLED so we can stop worrying about burn-in)

but with those SDR white is still supposed to be calibrated to the brightness of a white sheet of paper in whatever viewing conditions

it's always a light source, because it uses light to draw. It's just better and better as the years go on.

and that is pretty dark all things considered (not helped by the fact that an LCD handles ambient light way worse than paper)

My bringing up the CRT thing was mostly to reinforce my own point, that a screen drawing white was a lot harder (on the eyes, on power draw, etc.) than a screen drawing black.

and that continues to be the case, more and more dramatically so, as time goes on.

but the bigger problem is that it still isn't paper, you look at a lot of things on a screen that are supposed to be a lot brighter than paper

or idk if you do, I know I do

like say, outdoor photos

lol

I don't know what the last physical media I looked at was that isn't a screen.

I mean, I do have paper littered all over my desk, but an analog photo?

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but an analog photo is literally paper

I do get your point.

I mean sure we can restrict all our media to the capabilities of dead trees, but we could also make use of the improved capabilities - it just requires also designing stuff in a way that accounts for them

then you can have all the white UI themes you want while still not burning your eyes and also not losing hope of making out details of other content

but it'll take a while before we get that figured out

I have a release that should be merged into another release, but they have mismatching tracklist lengths (the to-be-merged release was created off an incomplete Bandcamp tracklist). Can I do this somehow without having to first edit the release to have a same-length tracklist?

are you trying to make a second release in the release group via the merge

or make it like, a second disc in the release you already have

or are you just saying that the items are literally the same

I'd like to merge https://musicbrainz.org/release/28b00632-706d-4... into https://musicbrainz.org/release/2b2b7d2f-b2af-4...

The recordings are already properly linked, and I don't want a new medium or anything

well

one is 19 tracks

one is 14

are you 100% certain there weren't two releases?

although they definitely dont have different dates

ah

Yes, it's a reasonably common thing on Bandcamp

there's your 4 releases there

4 releases?

unless discogs is wrong

i suppose they could also have the same incorrectness

but they reflect the division we see

that is, two releases in france in 2014 with 14 and 19 tracks respectively

The cassette release is irrelevant here, it's just that Bandcamp releases sometimes have tracks that are only visible once you purchase the release

well, download, not necessarily purchase

they actually both look digital

one was mp3

one was flac

and the mp3 one had 5 more songs

Musicbrainz does not do the format-specific tracking Discogs does

im just trying to figure out

is the 19 track one also a bandcamp release?

Yes, sorry. The editor who entered that one linked it in their edit notes, they just didn't add a relationship

Actually they did, nevermind that

So yes, they are the same thing, added off the same source, just with the (not too uncommon) mistake of only including the visible tracklist

i can definitely see the logic for merging

if they are legitimately the same though

The Bandcamp importer userscript will warn you about these releases, but not everyone uses that

track times not matching is a case of "someone is definitely wrong"

Where do you see track time mismatches?

oh its not a mis match

its an order

i see

the bandcamp page lists 14 as machine part 4

but the 19 parter has it as 15

oh, I completely missed that

yeha im not sure what there is to merge

looks to me like the 14 parter is just a pure duplicate with incomplete info

and probably can just go away

I'll check what the download looks like again

or rather, whatever the MB procedure is for duplicates

anyway, im out for today

good luck fixing your thing

[21:33] <reosarevok> atj: I'd use artwork, but maybe we need to add a "task" like we have for misc <----- !!!THIS!!!

[22:26] <Rotab> http://rotabsscreenshots.se/2021-02-23_21_22_25... <-- ohhh but i like that! (and I don't evne use dark-modes)

fwiw, if there is an uncomplete "digital" release it's OK to repurpose it to be a different format with those amounts of tracks (if said digital release never excisted with ie 14 tracks, but a cassette one did)

if not, you can add more tracks to he 14 track one, making sure everything is in the right order, and then merge them (you can ask for help with votes to get them through so you cna do the merge edit faster too)

elomatreb[m]:

hi MajorLurker :D

did I talk to you about #bookbrainz lurking too?

reosarevok: do you want a ticket re: adding the task field to the artwork credit?

atj: maybe, if you also agree? STYLE :)

I do wonder whether old design/illustration rels should be migrated to this

Or whether they can just be left to be slowly fixed from the report (https://beta.musicbrainz.org/report/DeprecatedR...)

reosarevok: yeah I agree. Would the task field be freetext?

I expect so, yeah