#musicbrainz

that’s how I did it: http://musicbrainz.org/recording/67e105ee-9a14-... . original artist had lyricist and composer credits for the work, that used samples

From descriptions of two of Jonathan Coulton’s songs: “That audio was actually part of a documentary that someone that I know was working on” and “I just found some audio on the internet from an old Kentucky Fried Chicken training video”

As I said, "the rest" :p

But you do think that the act of arranging those sampled words is enough for “lyricist”

?

That's why I said "who's to be credited for the lyrics is a funnier issue"

I have absolutely no idea :(

seems like a stretch…

Yeah

if lyricist is the person who decides which words are in the song in what order...

Yeah too

And that's why it's funny! :)

He didn't write the lines, but he made them into the song's lyrics

I would kind of question whether they’re lyrics per se at all

Well, I don't know this case

I'm more speaking in general

Nod

all saying "but how will I watch series now"

(they don't have any options for paid streaming there FWIW)

bitmap, hi!

One thing

If an artist has zero works

The script keeps the "looking for works" orange text for all

ah yeah I saw that too

It's not a big problem in itself, of course (although it looks funny)

I mostly worry about whether it's repeatedly querying MB or something

no, it's not, thankfully :)

Oh, cool :)

(not that the artists stay with 0 works for long ;) )

it's fixed now

:)

bitmap: Is there any reason that the “relate checked recordings to” script doesn’t do inline search and requires an MBID?

'cause I never got around to implementing that, I guess :P

Oh, OK. :-)

when MBID lookups become built into the autocomplete things soon, I'll just switch it to use those

Reasonable. I thought maybe you just didn’t like the idea of searching since it can give less-than-useful results (basically the same reason you did a 'link to recording by MBID' script for the release editor)

yeah, I don't really find the current inline search useful in a lot of cases so that was part of it

It’s somewhat useless for recordings, but much better for works and artists.

IMO anyway

there's too many generically-titled works in rock/pop music I guess

There are a lot, but they should (heh) have a lot of disambiguation comments

or composer/lyricist/performers, as the regular 'relate to..." search does

I wish that script worked on the recording search pages though

that would be awesome

I was working on that but it got kinda impossible to test because the search page HTML was different on the test server vs. live server

so I had to add a bunch of conditionals

ick

then I got tired and just scrapped everything :P

Is it any better now that we have beta maybe?

not sure

Anyone know why the works page seems to list (composer, lyricist) and sometimes (lyricist, composer)?

hawke_, I think it’s the adding order that makes the difference… at least that seems to be the reason

I'm not too sure if there's a reason at all

There’s obviously a reason, or it wouldn’t happen that way. :-)

I would assume it’s the adding order too

but I’m surprised that a script would not be consistent in the adding order

Well

It probably is

Anyone have an opinion on how to composer/lyricist mashups? Or should they not be new works at all?

in my case where I noticed it there were some credits already there

But if one of the relationships can't be added at first

(because it gets throttled)

So that might cause it

Could be.

hawke_, I think partial performance of each work should be enough

So, no new work?

I don't know

I'd say it's a distinct work

me too.

But it's quite in the limit

at least in many (most? cases)

well I would just compare them with dj mixed songs, and I wouldn’t new works there, though they usually contain some other song there as well… obviously not that big part of it

The concept is different though

Like, the idea behind it

I might add a work, relate it as a derivative of both originals and add no relationships to the actual mashup work

But as I said, I am avoiding them not to have to think too much about it :p

lol

why not add relationship to the mashup work, if you already have created it?

SultS: indeed. The question is, what relationship?

Does it have a composer/lyricist?

Are the composer/lyricist all the people who made the original works?

Or is it the mashup artist?

that’s proably on individual basis (and not always that easy to determine)

So, exactly for that reason :)

I would use original works people definetly, only for the part they created, if possible/known

I wonder if we need some kind of 'remixer' artist-work AR.

That or something similar would feel right to me

If you’re interested in a concrete example, one which I think is clearly a new work: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/When_I'...

hawke_: I have an album of mega-mixes which contain probably 150 original tracks per 10-12 minute track..

want to add to EHM BEE DOT OHRG

?

derwin: Not any time soon. :-)

would using arranger credit be incorrect for Coulton? I’ve never used it myself…

Hmm, could be.

I’ve used it mostly on recordings

What’s the consensus on stereo vs. mono recordings? Same? separate?

“While preparing this CD for release, Jonathan discovered that all previous releases of Code Monkey had been accidentally exported in mono. This album features the first stereo mix of the song.”

is there a consensus? I’d probably prefer separate

separate

(that's my opinion, not a consensus)

I kind of like the idea of separate, but I don’t see it working out very well in general just because it’s often hard to figure out which is which

I guess it’s close to same amount of hard than finding out different masters in general.

I'd say it's actually easier, since as long as you have access to the recording, you will be able to determine whether it's stereo or mono

you need access to at least two recordings to find out whether one is a remaster of the other

kovacsur: Depends, some fake-stereo stuff I think is not as easy to detect

Heh, it's kinda funny

"megaupload" is trending basically everywhere in twitter except in the UK and US

there? #umustbecrazy #ILovePeopleThat #IDontPlayThat

? trending in SF..

I only checked the full country ones

But basically, Germany, yes, Ireland, yes, Italy, yes, Spain, yes, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, yes

Canada, US and UK, no

Oh, UK is now, but because of Anon

(#OpMegaupload)

bitmap: Is there a way to apply the attributes and dates of the to the recording ARs after they’ve been created?

as in update the existing AR? that would be something I would be interested as well.