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      • roosoft
        musicbrainz states that it's been released october 23rd in GB
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      • roosoft
        i see
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      • noobie
        wiki is probably refering to the us release date
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      • SultS
        yeah
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      • roosoft
        ok... i am trying to figure out programatically which one is the most popular release
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      • hawke_1
        By what measure?
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      • roosoft
        well, it's quite subjective
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      • reosarevok
        Well, you could choose the one from the artist country, but for majors, countries barely matter...
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      • roosoft
        2 criterions are release date and country
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      • roosoft
        i think that an album released in the artist's country has a good chance of being the most popular if it's release day is the oldest of all releases
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      • SultS
        roosoft: quite often Japanese versions are released even earlier and contain bonus tracks… but it doesn’t seem to be the case with this Smashing Pumpkins album
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      • roosoft
        in this case, no albums fits so my algo ouputs nothing
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      • hawke_1
        How are you defining "most popular"?
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      • hawke_1
        most likely to be the one someone wants for a search result? the one which someone is most likely to possess?
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      • roosoft
        i want to display artists tracks without regards about releases... but still link them to release groups
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      • roosoft
        to figure out which tracks comes from which release group, i have to go through releases
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      • roosoft
        in fact, i rely on last.fm scrobbling
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      • hawke_1
        I would say “whichever release group has the most releases where that track appears” if that makes sense.
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      • roosoft
        it may be another way to sort it out...
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      • roosoft
        i've seen albums re-released with hundreds of tracks
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      • roosoft
        congratulations for your database by the way... it's awesome :D
      • 2012-06-06 15821, 2012

      • roosoft
        the main reason why i am doing this is because i do not think physical media have much future
      • 2012-06-06 15809, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        physical media might not, but the concept of an album will, imo.
      • 2012-06-06 15810, 2012

      • roosoft
        i expect in the future that albums may have only one initial release regardless media or country
      • 2012-06-06 15815, 2012

      • roosoft
        yup
      • 2012-06-06 15836, 2012

      • kepstin-work
        nah, I still expect occasional remastered releases or versions with different bonus tracks
      • 2012-06-06 15812, 2012

      • roosoft
        i'm trying to apply that principle to albums released in the past as well.. that's my challenge
      • 2012-06-06 15820, 2012

      • roosoft
        i don't care about remasters
      • 2012-06-06 15828, 2012

      • roosoft
        well, my website don't
      • 2012-06-06 15825, 2012

      • roosoft
        i want to list the number of times a song has been played by one of my users, regardless which edition
      • 2012-06-06 15829, 2012

      • hawke_1
        Musicbrainz does, ostensibly. :-)
      • 2012-06-06 15839, 2012

      • roosoft
        of course
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      • Anoia
        wth?
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      • Anoia
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      • Anoia
        I'm not entirely sure that my file system is going to like that name...
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      • ianmcorvidae
        hah
      • 2012-06-06 15817, 2012

      • Anoia tells it to tag but not move
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      • ianmcorvidae
        I guess you could trim it in a taggerscript or something :P
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      • hawke_1
        Anoia: Picard limits the filename to 255 characters
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      • Anoia
        ahh, lucky
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      • ianmcorvidae
        on *nix it should really limit it to 255 per path-part instead
      • 2012-06-06 15833, 2012

      • ianmcorvidae
        but eh
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      • derwin
        is it a TEXT in the database?
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      • ianmcorvidae
        basically, it's written VARCHAR in createtables, but
      • 2012-06-06 15818, 2012

      • ianmcorvidae
        unbounded, though, so
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      • jacobbrett
        Good news, everyone: I just discovered http://www.myxer.com/ embeds the UPC and ISRCs of digital releases into the meta section of their web pages.
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      • ianmcorvidae
        huh
      • 2012-06-06 15805, 2012

      • ianmcorvidae
        I wonder if we have a wiki page for "data sources" or such
      • 2012-06-06 15854, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        hmm, maybe I should keep one..
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      • derwin
        jacobbret what about in the tags?
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      • jacobbrett
        derwin: No idea, I just stumbled onto their website via Google
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      • Anoia
        is there any practical/sensible way to link/import discogs and musicbrainz?
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      • Anoia
        for example an album on discogs that isn;t on MB
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      • reosarevok
        Yes
      • 2012-06-06 15819, 2012

      • ianmcorvidae
        there's a userscript
      • 2012-06-06 15822, 2012

      • reosarevok
        What's your browser?
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      • ianmcorvidae
        there's also an AR link
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      • Anoia
        i'm using IE10
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      • reosarevok
        huh
      • 2012-06-06 15821, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Dunno if IE works with userscripts at all
      • 2012-06-06 15827, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Does it have a greasemonkey addon?
      • 2012-06-06 15835, 2012

      • reosarevok thinks it has addons now, right?
      • 2012-06-06 15855, 2012

      • Anoia
        has done for a while
      • 2012-06-06 15809, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Well, yeah
      • 2012-06-06 15815, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Haven't used it for a longer while than that
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      • Anoia
        either way i'm a developer nd can hack something to get it to work :)
      • 2012-06-06 15835, 2012

      • reosarevok
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      • reosarevok
        That works in Firefox and Opera at least, and in Chrome with some changes
      • 2012-06-06 15851, 2012

      • reosarevok
        No idea what it would need to work on IE
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      • Anoia
        are the licences compatable?
      • 2012-06-06 15820, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Well, factual data is not copyrighted in the US where discogs is based, so it must be
      • 2012-06-06 15824, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But I think it is anyway
      • 2012-06-06 15838, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (like, "officially")
      • 2012-06-06 15837, 2012

      • reosarevok
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      • reosarevok
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      • reosarevok
        So yeah, data is PD
      • 2012-06-06 15839, 2012

      • hawke_1
        And this right here is why we need “as on cover”: http://musicbrainz.org/release/30a7ec16-454b-4314…
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      • hawke_1
        Looks OK at first glance, doesn’t it?
      • 2012-06-06 15830, 2012

      • reosarevok
        "ok"
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      • hawke_1
        But guess what: Several tracks have completely wrong titles because someone guessed the specific selection incorrectly.
      • 2012-06-06 15854, 2012

      • hawke_1
        Of course, the cover has it right…
      • 2012-06-06 15822, 2012

      • hawke_1
        or at least, less wrong
      • 2012-06-06 15845, 2012

      • hawke_1
        Specifically, disc 1 - tracks 15, 19, and 23 (at least; that’s as far as I’ve gotten)
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      • noobie
        seems to be wrong in discogs too
      • 2012-06-06 15834, 2012

      • noobie
        ah no
      • 2012-06-06 15809, 2012

      • derwin
        yeah, I sometimes correct discogs
      • 2012-06-06 15815, 2012

      • derwin
        so it will be correct when I import to mb
      • 2012-06-06 15842, 2012

      • hawke_1
        I blame brianfreud since he added it. But that’s not really fair since it’s pre-NGS and who knows how good those references were 5 years ago.
      • 2012-06-06 15839, 2012

      • hawke_1
        bit of a “ ;-) ” on that if that wasn’t clear.
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      • ruaok
        ok, need water.
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      • ruaok
        I might return in a few. or not. :)
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      • jacobbrett
        Google query: site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/med… * inurl:xls --might be useful to some of you (spreadsheets of release title+catalogue number+barcode+format
      • 2012-06-06 15815, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        Also, you can find PDF press releases
      • 2012-06-06 15857, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        e.g. via barcode: site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/med… * inurl:016861793128.pdf
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      • rubin110
        Is there anyway to stamp in album art I've found on my own through Picard?
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      • jacobbrett
        rubin110: Currently, I don't think so, though it's being worked on.
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      • reosarevok
        Actually, there is
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      • reosarevok
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      • ianmcorvidae
        upload it to the CAA? :P
      • 2012-06-06 15827, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Yeah, but that still needs that plugin to work
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      • jacobbrett
        Oh, reosarevok, does it let you drag artwork??
      • 2012-06-06 15844, 2012

      • reosarevok
        jacobbrett: no, it lets you use CAA artwork
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      • reosarevok
        If you have it, why wouldn't you upload it? :)
      • 2012-06-06 15801, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        Ah, I wasn't even sure that was working...
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      • reosarevok
        (well, because the CAA is down like HALF THE TIME)
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      • rubin110
        reosarevok: That's a good point, except I don't know if this is actually the cover art or not.
      • 2012-06-06 15812, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (but apart from that :p)
      • 2012-06-06 15817, 2012

      • reosarevok
        rubin110: oh :)
      • 2012-06-06 15819, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        Hmm, maybe that was why lol
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      • reosarevok
        I'm afraid that's all we have at the moment...
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      • rubin110
        It's accurate for about 75% of my library.
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      • rubin110
        I mean, how imporper would it be to add a comment simply saying "Found through a Google Search" or "Found on Amazon"?
      • 2012-06-06 15850, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Well, if you have a barcode you can search for it on Amazon and it will often give a release, usually with a cover
      • 2012-06-06 15809, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (which might need some cropping or something because they put white edge crap around some of them)
      • 2012-06-06 15824, 2012

      • rubin110
        Oh wow, that worked rather well.
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      • reosarevok
        (or well, you could just link the ASIN :) )
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      • rubin110
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      • rubin110
        Picard doesn't seem to grab the art for that one.
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      • CatBuss
        :D
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      • ianmcorvidae
        hm, it should get it via the ASIN
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      • ianmcorvidae
        with the coverart plugin installed
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      • CatBuss
        CatCat: lol
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      • ianmcorvidae
        dunno why though
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      • jacobbrett
        iTunes has 600x600 artwork, less compression, too
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      • reosarevok
        rubin110: oh, digital media
      • 2012-06-06 15854, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Yeah, some legal issue or some issue with Amazon API or both
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      • reosarevok can never remember
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      • reosarevok
        Just get the cover from there or iTunes and upload it then
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      • reosarevok
        (iTunes covers tend to be good, just right-click, open in new tab, change 170x170 in the url for 600x600)
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      • rubin110
        Ah ok.
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      • rubin110
        Rad.