#musicbrainz

caa still busted?

ruaok: rather late response but it looks like it's back, people have been uploading stuff

yeah,seems it was fixed about 6 hours ago

yay, 8328 open/applied add cover art edits

nice.

moving right along.

stuff's been adding slightly slower than, say, the first day

but it's still going at a very nice clip :D

yeah, and the number of new cover art relationships has dropped right down. only one in the last few days

I imagine people are still adding asins though

well, asins are still useful :P

I mean that people are probably still adding them to get cover art

do we track how many cover art relationships there are?

uh

don't think so, no

we don't have things for individual relationships

bah

that graph needs more x-axis labels

yeah, it's optimized for longer time periods

because it does it by month :P

by which I mean, because the labeling is by month

tsk tsk. all my maths teachers would have knocked marks off for that ;)

heh, having full days just meant that the labels were unreadable :P

I guess you could re-run the MB.Timeline.setupGraphing command to change it :P

I don't care that much :P

yeah

although you should at least file a bug for it

no guarantees that I or anyone else will look at it, but worth having it documented :P

on 1/9/12, there was the most edits ever in a 1 week span 131,364

you're from the future :o

you don't use american date ordering :P

yeah, I know :P

I had to think about what it meant, so I couldn't resist making fun of you guys :P

I usually avoid the confusion by listing the short form of the month

I usually expand things out too, yeah

I should just start using the japanese markers

or unix timestamps

which will be meaningless to almost everyone here :P

and yeah, year-first is usually unambiguous

sure, but it'd be clear if people looked it up :P

could confuse everyone and use japanese eras >:D

heh

I don't even know how those work, so 'everyone' is probably right :P

I have actually seen a couple of releases listed on websites with the era years

I know in theory how they work, but I have no idea when each era starts and therefore have no idea what year it is now

I really hate the Gregorian system

ah. apparently it's heisei 24

I suppose "H22.2.22" was just too much fun to resist

Hmmm

I know know more about the Japanese era system than I think I ever needed to know

s/know/now

but, it's also really easy

yeah, I mean, it's just an assigned-prefix system

the hard part is knowing what prefixes relate to what dates :P

although conveniently the current era started the same year I was born evidently

January 1, 1989 was the first day of the year 昭和６４年 (Showa 64). But the Emperor died on January 7, 1989...so Showa 64 was only one week long. January 8, 1989 began the current "Heisei Era".

yeah, 1989 is both S64 and H1 depending when in the year

I vote for the latter.

yeah

it shouldn't be too hard to use the index.json thing to generate the data file

i was just doing that, actually :D

hehe

ian's thought process: "surely the CAA has an API"

ianmcorvidae: i'm no perl hacker, so would you like a python script that makes a datafile from an MBID that already has cover art?

what the

all numbers username? interesting.

?

oh boy, i run this script and musicbrainz.org gives me a 500 internal server error

what did i do

Bad boy!

Other people are saying similar stuff

So it might be failing :/

ianweller: you tried to use the site. how dare you :P

the worst possible thing that could happen

fun part of all this: to copy cover art, i download it from CAA, then reupload it to CAA

this doesn't seem silly at all

lol

alright, one down

38 t ogo

togo [at maki.band]

/random

ianweller: Might be worth submitting a feature request to allow you to associate the coverart from one release with another?

Well, ideally you're not supposed to do that, but to use the actual images from each release

:p

yeah, it seems like it would get misused to me

I can understand people doing it and I've done it a couple times, especially for digital + digital with bonus tracks, but I wouldn't want to promote it

hi! about cover art: http://musicbrainz.org/release/19897eed-4630-45... the only source for the cover art of this single is : http://www.bored4music.com/2012/04/new-single-b...

but there I don't have any info on the type of the release. can i assume it fits?

marianaaf: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/best-coast/id...

Size is crap and to open the single I need iTunes which I don't have

But it seems the same

yes it does. so it's ok to add it? save it to my computer and upload it under the cover art tab?

like this: http://musicbrainz.org/edit/17620343 ??

Like that :)

great ;)

another doubt. added this when there was nothing on amazon. http://musicbrainz.org/release/05454821-481c-48... (http://itunes.apple.com/album/whyd-you-have-to-...)

now amazon has it but the release date is different. http://www.amazon.com/Whyd-You-Have-Good-Single... (one week difference)

can I associate the ASIN or it's best to leave it like that and add a cover like I did on best coast?

Different people have different opinions on that being one release or two

In any case, if you can add a cover that'll always help MB more than just an ASIN ;)

even if my source for the cover is amazon?

ok ;)