#musicbrainz

any german editors present?

I forget what I was going to ask about it though

I think I saw some some german versions of feat. and what not

wanted to ask if I should just change it to feat.

oh, the very first artist, Die Atzen

apparently Die Atzen is Frauenarzt and Manny Marc, so should I just pick Die Atzen instead?

hm. I'd just link all the artists

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61shatvoc... seems to be how it is on the cover at least

I'd call that a stupid label misprint

Die Atzen (Frauenarzt and Manny Marc)

it's a stupid annotation on the back cover

there is already some credits like that, so I'm not so sure

anyway, I don't know the artists, so I can't say whether it's a misprint or just some annoying artists :P

so I'm erring on the side of copy the cover until someone who knows better comes along

I hate VAs

they're third only to classical and jazz when it comes to MBz

but so much of my work involves VAs so heavily

got a quick question if anyone's around

http://musicbrainz.org/artist/f52ae6d4-bb68-431... -- this group has since changed its name to just "Folk Family Revival", wondering how best to enter this

DocPlatypus, is Lankford still in it?

group name*

http://www.folkfamilyrevival.com -- the old domain name and Twitter name are gone too

I would probably just add the current name as an alias

(the Mark Lankford one I mean)

And then change the artist name

But not the credits, if that album we have is credited to ML&tFFR

ok... it's Mason Lankford, not Mark, btw

heh

Was writing from memory

(bad memory it seems :) )

But you get what I meant :)

(I hope!)

yeah... I can't figure out how to add an alias

From the Alias tab :)

ok

I'm going to make the old name the alias since they're using just Folk Family Revival going forward

And when editing the name, make sure you deselect the artist credit (from the list with the checkboxes)

Yep! :)

but I'll have to wait for the current edit to be approved first, I think

Which edit? :)

I wish there was such a thing as limited auto-editor privileges (such as for certain artists)

Aliases are independent from name

So you can add it already

Also, you'll want to cancel http://musicbrainz.org/edit/20935004

(That's what I meant with deselecting the artist credit)

(to avoid it entering that - that'd change all current credits for the old name to the new name which isn't what we want)

...and done

it's done, I think

:)

DocPlatypus, do you know when they changed names?

(if you know, you can edit the alias to add an end date for it)

I'd have to ask someone... I know a lot of people in the local music scene so I can ask around

:)

So, if you find out you can add that

posted to their Facebook wall... wish Mason himself still had a Facebook account or I'd just message him

does anybody speak Czech or Slovak?

luks does, but he's probably not around yet

derr84, luks is Slovak

We do have a few Czechs but none around right now I think

what does it mean - "Review Submitted"?

That the code is written and it needs the other developers to look at it

(before it can be released)

that beautiful orange yellow color http://musicbrainz.org/release/6a99a4ce-bef5-4c...

but what's this? why aren't "Language: English" and "Status: Official" also highlighted?

that counts as a release edit, so the release is highlighted

because it doesn't keep track of *what* is being edited, just *that* things are being edited

yeah

I see :)

most of the other things are separate entities, hence the highlighting

speaking of that release, though...

medium, recording, release, etc. :P

is there some easy way for me to change all the recording associations on the romanized pseudo-release to match the recording associations on the official release?

because it's transliterated, searching for them in the release editor will be rather time consuming

flamingspinach: do you want to just merge the recordings?

well, yes, I guess that's what I want to do

but not merge the releases themselves

Then yes

There's a script

Let me find it

oh, handy :)

great! thanks!

It works fine, even if jesus2099's screenshots seem offputting :p

haha jesus2099's screenshots are awesome

oh wow this takes a long tim

*time

I guess it sends them one at a time to avoid overloading the mbz server or something...

What is Language in Release information ? Can i use Language as Hindi, where lyrics is in Hindi ?

dixon17: it means the language of the information on the packaging

that's the language of the track names

mainly the tracklist

nikki: well, I've sometimes put Language = Japanese when the tracklist is all in English but everything else like liner notes and lyrics etc. are in Japanese

is that wrong?

the guidelines disagree with you then

yikes

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Release says release/track names

well, I'll remember that for next time

dixon17: if you want to add the lyrics language, you need to link each track to a work and set the lyrics language for the work

niki, i agree.. But whats the use ? It means, i can use other languages other than english for track names ?

earlier I was talking with kepstin and we decided http://musicbrainz.org/release/05576a40-ddba-4d... should be "Japanese/Japanese" on the sole basis of the text "人造人間キカイダー" in the release title

even though the entire tracklist and even artist names were in English or romanized Japanese names

do you disagree with that, nikki?

no

hmm

well, I don't really see the difference between a fragment of the title being in Japanese and everything else being in English, vs. the liner notes being in Japanese and everything else including the title and tracklist being in English

but if those are the guidelines...

ok, i understand... But how can i show others that one album's lyrics is in Hindi language ?

the main aim is to be able to distinguish multiple tracklists (e.g. the mythical day when we get vgmdb-style tracklists)

dixon17: at the moment we don't have a way to display that on the release page :(

hm. would be nice though

vgmdb has a lot of nice features haha

such as the ability to enter credits to people who aren't in the database yet

dixon17: I just entered http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-5859

seems we don't make a difference between "spoken vocals" and "rap vocals"?

heh. rap...

nikki: :)

What are the different ways to add details into musicbrainz ? Can i dump all data from local files mp3 tag ? I tried picard's add cluster as release plugin, but i has lot of limitaions..

Say, for multiple artists, additional info like composser, lyricist...

nikki: ?

flamingspinach?

some would say there's a difference between spoken vocals and "rap"

Some being most :p

but we don't seem to have a vocal performer AR type for rap vocals