Is there a way to, like...merge the recordings of two albums by medium? In this instance, merge the recordings of a compilation album with the recordings from the individual albums it compiles?
2021-02-26 05716, 2021
Erin
i mean you can ensure the tracks all reference the same actual recording in the back-end
2021-02-26 05719, 2021
reosarevok
Misty_Pond: the answer is yes either way
2021-02-26 05751, 2021
reosarevok
But what are you asking: "merge boxset with original discs, so that all recordings are on the compilation too" or "merge some recordings from a comp CD with their originals"?
2021-02-26 05739, 2021
reosarevok
(if the tracklists aren't the same, the best way is probably to just open each pair of recordings and click Merge on both - if they are the same or very close, there's a script that makes it a lot faster for large amounts )
2021-02-26 05700, 2021
Misty_Pond
the latter, I think - the compiled tracklists are all the same as the original individual cds.
If you can't figure something out when you try it do ask :)
2021-02-26 05757, 2021
Erin
woo just passed 1000 applied edits
2021-02-26 05713, 2021
Misty_Pond
script seems to work fine up until I press the "merge all found recordings" button, then it gets stuck trying to queue the first track over and over...
2021-02-26 05722, 2021
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2021-02-26 05700, 2021
reosarevok
Misty_Pond: did you enter a (relatively long) edit note?
2021-02-26 05705, 2021
reosarevok
It's unhappy otherwise
2021-02-26 05711, 2021
reosarevok
I forget what the limit is
2021-02-26 05753, 2021
Misty_Pond
I wrote "Duplicate recordings - merging compilation recordings with original release's." (which probably isn't great...)
2021-02-26 05722, 2021
Misty_Pond
I'll see if cutting out the first couple words changes anything
2021-02-26 05700, 2021
Misty_Pond
no, it's still trying to queue the first track and failing...
2021-02-26 05714, 2021
reosarevok
That's probably long enough
2021-02-26 05727, 2021
reosarevok
(no, the problem is whether it's too *short*, I wrote it unclearly)
2021-02-26 05750, 2021
reosarevok
Is there anything in your console? (depending on your browser, but it's f12 for Chrome)
2021-02-26 05713, 2021
Misty_Pond
there are some things when I open the firefox console...
2021-02-26 05740, 2021
Misty_Pond
I'll try reversing the direction of the releases I'm merging, see if that changes anything
2021-02-26 05744, 2021
Misty_Pond
no, still not working -_-
2021-02-26 05748, 2021
Misty_Pond
I'm not really code-literate enough to understand much of what the console is saying, but I think it's saying there are errors in the script code preventing it from working...?
2021-02-26 05754, 2021
Misty_Pond
maybe I need to try a different *monkey app...
2021-02-26 05750, 2021
reosarevok
Hmm
2021-02-26 05705, 2021
reosarevok
If you let jesus2099 know of what the console says he might be able to help
2021-02-26 05727, 2021
reosarevok
But for now, if you post the links I can try the merge? Maybe we broke the script recently and I haven't yet noticed :)
kepstin, D4RK-PH0ENiX: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9839 - wondering, would it be safe to assume "feat." for example should always have spaces around it in Japanese releases?
2021-02-26 05733, 2021
BrainzBot
MBS-9839: Why do join phrases not get spaces added automatically?
2021-02-26 05720, 2021
kepstin
reosarevok: hmm. I'm pretty sure i could find some counterexamples with no spaces if I look hard enough, but tbh that might be something that we should normalize anyways.
2021-02-26 05749, 2021
reosarevok
Ok - just wondering how it works for Japan :) What about spaces before and after & or after ,?
2021-02-26 05751, 2021
kepstin
that said, it should be possible to override any automatic stuff that the editor does if needed to handle unexpected special cases
2021-02-26 05705, 2021
kepstin
definitely lots of cases with no spaces around & and ,
2021-02-26 05735, 2021
reosarevok
Ok
2021-02-26 05746, 2021
kepstin
although that's partly related to common use of ＆ and 、 instead
2021-02-26 05757, 2021
reosarevok
yes, right now & and , for example get spaces by default, but not if the editor has changed them by hand
2021-02-26 05714, 2021
reosarevok
People just make mistakes with that so the question was about overriding that. But IMO that's problematic, yeah
2021-02-26 05748, 2021
kepstin
i'd be ok with automatic spacing helpers, the problem is that you have to be able to turn it off or override it.
2021-02-26 05718, 2021
kepstin
maybe something like having a checkbox in the artist credit editor labelled "Automatic Spacing", and if checked (default) then in the join phrase onblur it adds whitespace following some preset rules?
2021-02-26 05706, 2021
kepstin
i notice we already have an onblur in the artist as credited field to trim leading/trailing whitespace, that's fine to leave on always, i think
2021-02-26 05746, 2021
kepstin
(I'd also like to be able to turn off the default automatic join phrase thing that adds "," and "&" too, fwiw)
2021-02-26 05734, 2021
kepstin
i guess it actually adds ", " and " & " :)
2021-02-26 05751, 2021
reosarevok
That it does. I guess the idea is that it's better to submit ", " and " & " if the user forgets to change it than "" and have all artist names show like ARTIST1ARTIST2ARTIST3
