#musicbrainz

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?

i mean you can ensure the tracks all reference the same actual recording in the back-end

Misty_Pond: the answer is yes either way

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"?

(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 )

the latter, I think - the compiled tracklists are all the same as the original individual cds.

Ok

Then you want https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2338-mb-mass-...

thank you!

If you can't figure something out when you try it do ask :)

woo just passed 1000 applied edits

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...

Misty_Pond: did you enter a (relatively long) edit note?

It's unhappy otherwise

I forget what the limit is

I wrote "Duplicate recordings - merging compilation recordings with original release's." (which probably isn't great...)

I'll see if cutting out the first couple words changes anything

no, it's still trying to queue the first track and failing...

That's probably long enough

(no, the problem is whether it's too *short*, I wrote it unclearly)

Is there anything in your console? (depending on your browser, but it's f12 for Chrome)

there are some things when I open the firefox console...

I'll try reversing the direction of the releases I'm merging, see if that changes anything

no, still not working -_-

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...?

maybe I need to try a different *monkey app...

Hmm

If you let jesus2099 know of what the console says he might be able to help

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 :)

okay, so here is the compilation album: https://musicbrainz.org/release/8f390aa7-28a7-4...

I'm basically trying to merge the recordings into those of the individual releases linked at the bottom of the page

the singles are already merged, so it's just the soundtracks now

Misty_Pond: sorry, was having breakfast

Lemme see

Hmm, seems to work fine for me

Well, I'll do this boxset then, no worries :)

Misty_Pond: merges entered, do see if I missed some :) One of the discs or two seemed to already have the right (merged) recordings

will do; thanks again!

!m reosarevok

You're doing good work, reosarevok!

is run_target() broken in the lastest master or has the behavior changed? I am getting "No such file or directory", whereas 0.56.2 works fine

ups, sorry, wrong channel :/

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?

MBS-9839: Why do join phrases not get spaces added automatically?

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.

Ok - just wondering how it works for Japan :) What about spaces before and after & or after ,?

that said, it should be possible to override any automatic stuff that the editor does if needed to handle unexpected special cases

definitely lots of cases with no spaces around & and ,

Ok

although that's partly related to common use of ＆ and 、 instead

yes, right now & and , for example get spaces by default, but not if the editor has changed them by hand

People just make mistakes with that so the question was about overriding that. But IMO that's problematic, yeah

i'd be ok with automatic spacing helpers, the problem is that you have to be able to turn it off or override it.

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?

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

(I'd also like to be able to turn off the default automatic join phrase thing that adds "," and "&" too, fwiw)

i guess it actually adds ", " and " & " :)

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

More stuff that looks weird so I assume it's Japan-related? :p https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-9834