Got a vinyl release that - to the best of my knowledge - was only sold on one online store. Started accepting preorders on 2021-02-16, didn't ship until 2021-04-02 - which one would be the release date for this release?
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srxl
ah, never mind - just found another online store selling it, unsure when they started taking preorders
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srxl
both stores didn't ship until 2021-04-02 though - guess this would be the right release date?
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reosarevok
I think so
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srxl
sweet, one other question - what's the correct packaging type for a cardboard sleeve holding a paper sleeve? like a gatefold, but doesn't fold, just has the one 12" vinyl in it
2021-04-13 10312, 2021
reosarevok
So, a normal, old school vinyl sleeve? :D
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reosarevok
Anyway, Cardboard sleeve sounds right
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srxl
yep, pretty much :P and will do - now just gotta get access to a scanner that can fit a 12" vinyl lol
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chaban
You could do partial scans and then stitch them. I've done that and it works wonderfully, though takes a little bit more time
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CatQuest
ah how do you get that to work? whenver I've tried that it jsut looks wrong
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CatQuest
(I've got a book that's too large to scan too, no idea how to stich together such book-cover)
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evelyn
the main issues that crop up are some scans being squint compared to others, and if the scan is not wholly flat you can get variations in shading and the stitches become obvious
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evelyn
you can correct both in software fairly easily, and just be very careful when making the scans
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evelyn
I've visited my local library to get the scans instead as they have a big scanner
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srxl
yeah that's what i was thinking, i'll just go down to my local library, surely they got a big scanner
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crism
There’s a nice tool called Scan Tailor that can fix a lot of the simple scanning problems.
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rdswift
<CatQuest> ah how do you get that to work? I use a utility called Hugin on my Windows system, following the tutorial at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.s… and it usually works out well for me.
chaban: yes, but eh, that looks too "novelty-y" but
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CatQuest
red flag: "The Black Violin project began as an extension of my graphic design work"
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CatQuest
ah, looking at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105695123 I see it's basically a regular violin after all (it also says that "the sound and playability proved to be indistinguishable from that of an excellent traditional violin")
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CatQuest
it's very pretty might. but
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evelyn
it seems to just be a normal violin. it's not like a phonofiddle or an octave fiddle or something
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CatQuest
.. i dread to ask, phonofiddle?
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CatQuest
is that like the strohfiol?
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evelyn
CatQuest phonofiddle = fiddle with phone ports
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evelyn
ie an electric fiddle
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evelyn
a fiddle that requires amplification like an electric guitar
Hey, when we add releases that share tracks, they should be associated. If we add a release that has the actual original recording, should it be added as a new recording, and other recordings be tied to that? Or if there is a match, should they just be associated as-is?
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evelyn
I believe that electric fiddles are the same principle as a phonofiddle
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CatQuest
recordings can be merged. but if you know they are the same thne you cna reuse thme in the "recordings" tab whne adding releases
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meLon
Thanks, CatQuest . I am doing my best to find and associate existing recordings in the database. My question is... I am adding releases that predate existing releases in the database. These releases I have have the actual first recording of the recording, whereass existing entries all tie to a recording of a later date.
what you said about "phone" made me think of something like a phone with electronics attached (especially phone, like a smartphone, rasperry-pi/synth thing)
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CatQuest
meLon: actually the "date" becomes that of the earliest attached release. so once you attach this recording to the earliest original release (provided it is the same ofcourse) thne that becoems the date
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meLon
Oh hot automation! Nice ty for information
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evelyn
I'm saying its the same principle because original phonofiddles were fiddles with amplification, for when they were recorded acoustically or electrically. With the advent of modern electric guitars etc, it came to be analaguous to electric guitars and became the electric guitar
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CatQuest
ie, if there is a match,they should just be associated as-is" to pharaphrase youtrself
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evelyn
because nobody records as we did on 78s etc anymore.
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CatQuest
evelyn: eh, organically this is very different though
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evelyn
all the phonofiddles I have seen have been electric fiddles
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evelyn
my friend had one
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CatQuest
like stroh violins are aplified due ot an actual phonograph "trackt" no electric wiering at all
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evelyn
it was called a phonofiddle but it was just like an electric guitar
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CatQuest
yea. that's completely differnt
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CatQuest
ie, mechanically amplified versus electrically amplified
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CatQuest
well what do i know, maybe modern stroh fiddles are also electriclaly amplified
would using the latter with an instrument credit be Good Enough™?
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CatQuest
(I ask because, if "phonofiddle" to describe "electric violin" is a sufficiently often used term, I will have ti add alaises and maybe even disambiguiation text)
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CatQuest
ie "for the electrically amplified instrument also called "phonofiddle" see [Electric Violin]" / "for the mechanically amplified instrument with a phonotrackt see [Stroh violin]" etc
