#musicbrainz

nikki, i'm having oatcakes filled with chilli cheese :P it's weird but nice

hehe

anyone know if google play music uses musicbrainz to match albums?

can i get some input on this edit? http://musicbrainz.org/edit/19713665

lantizia: i doubt it

but if you improve your metdata first using a tagger it will make use of that

ijabz, I'm aware... but what I'd love to know is which music it's 'matching' and which it's 'uploading'

just seems to upload it all to me... only really wanna keep online the stuff it already had a copy of

hmmm, times on the CD cover differ fromt he actual track lengths

by as much as 20s in one case

lantizia: presumably their 'matching' is done my some sort of proprietary fingerprinting algorithm against files provided by record labels.

how can i see when someone has commented or voted on one of my edits?

function1: it should send you an email

(except for yes votes)

kepstin-laptop, i've read it can match even files that were ogg vorbis... but if you download them off again they're an mp3 :S

kepstin-laptop: probably turned that off some time ago

meh

function1: please turn it back on

function1: it's rude to not be able to respond to comments or no votes :)

i could see the no votes from the stats, otherwise i saw some from the long list, though there may be others...

it might be possible to use the edit search to find no-voted edits

turned on

not sure about comments.

seems i only get votes for the sensitive things like merge recordings

yeah, you'll find that most stuff really just will pass in 2 weeks without votes :/

seems to just be saying Google will use improved metadata created after running tuneup or is it actually storing/.comparing grace note fingerprints

Is "대박사건" Korean for "No Mercy"?

google translate gives the impression that it means something like "big event" or "important incident" or whatnot.

Anybody know why this recording is orange but has no open edits? http://musicbrainz.org/recording/c31d7df1-3c13-...

... by you.

Wait, so that link actually shows some open edits for you guys?

yes.

http://musicbrainz.org/edit/19752152 to be specific

wtf

it's empty for me

*sigh*.

aha ... mb. POWER VOTE + "check all votes" (old version of power vote) = screwed up

renaming userscripts = bad. :-/

hey do i need special approval to do some massive editing?

no, but keep in mind that unless people vote or approve your edits, it can take 2 weeks before they apply

there is like a 48 disc set of classical music that my mum likes and musicbrainz only knows about half of it - and even then it's input in all sorts of different styles

probably because they're all listed seperately

make sure you don't edit the same thing multiple times within 2 weeks, or you can have conflicts.

that sounds like too much work

i don't mind fixing it - but to wait 2 weeks to see the end result!?

yeah, it sucks

you can ask people to vote on or approve it.

3 yes will apply the change immediately.

the number of minor edits i'll be making - you'll be flooded with links in this chan lol

just link to the edit search

presumably http://goo.gl/eNriA

or just her open edits url

his*

ok well my first question is... to my knowledge there were 48 discs in the "In Classical Mood" series... none of them are numbered (i.e. no Volume 1, 2,3, etc)

but theres over 20 in the database that do have volume numbers... yet all 48 disc cases on the rear have a serial number that counts from 1 up to 48 on each disc

but the volume numbers in the database don't match those serial numbers! GAH!

and then theres stuff in the database that are clearly "In Classical Mood" discs but don't say so.. and don't also have a volume number

I feel like preparing the whole lot in excel or something myself manually - and uploading that scrapping whatever was there

reosarevok: Do you know if there’s a ticket about the release editor applying all difference instead of just changes?

No idea

I mean, I like that the option is there to apply all differences (people forget to apply their changes relatively often :/ ) but I would also like an option to only apply what's changed, yeah...

I don’t know of any other way to apply durations only other than editing every recording

which is of course a giant pain

I seem to recall a ticket about that

Though MBS-2021 may address that

MBS-5130 actually

hm. I don't understand what the difference between those two is

Me neither

5129 is kind of unclear

oh well. I need to buy some food.

hawke_1: There's also a ticket about being able to select which edits to apply on the final page of the release editor.

hawke_1: Yeah, sure.

*recording title change

hawke_1: But then you could choose not to do that edit and open up the recording and edit it "manually".

Well, that only helps when there is only one or two recording edits you don't want to apply

And anyway, in that case you could just go back to the recordings tab and select all except that...

The problem is when you only want to change, well, what you've changed, for a 10 or 20 track release

reosarevok: Sure.

Or 99.

Why stop there? :-p

Or n!

I love the “What measure is a man?” debate going on in -style, about vocaloid vs. synthesizer.

“Well, if you credit the vocaloid artist, I should credit the synthesizer!” “…k, fine by me!”

http://musicbrainz.org/election/241 *drum rolls*

Quick!

All go vote No!

haha

there should be a bot to vote no at the last minute and then change its vote right before the ending for a dramatic finish :P

OK I've got that lot to get through... 48 discs worth - all individually listed on MB... only some are missing and the ones that are not are wholely named badly

what the most efficient way I can get this data in without all the waiting? :D

(warning that .jpg is _BIG_)

...

1200x... *28800* pixels??

WTF?!?

:D

Sheesh.

Young folks now a days. Wasting away the pixels. D:

I used imagemagick to stich em all together - saves me from opening up each file if I can just scroll through

Using "magick" too. Tsk.

lantizia: LOL. I know. XD

So the question was... the most efficient way of putting this stuff into MB?

Can I just make 48 new albums the way they're printed on the covers... and then IF mb has duplicates merge them into mine?

lantizia: You shouldn't merge them into yours if they were also released on their own though.

But otherwise, I'd say yes, just make yours.

I don't know if they were or not - all I know is they are a set of 48

And we can merge away later of necessary.

and mb doesn't have all 48

Oh god classical

Fun

Yep.

lantizia: can you give me some examples of the ones in MB?

reosarevok, http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=in+classica...

Oh, so they're already in as this collection

but then there is some like http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=morning+mis...

top result on that - which is also a 'in classical mood'

some of those 48 are missing

"In Classical Mood is a set of music CDs with accompanying liner-notes in hardcover book format. There are approximately 60 books (each with it's own CD) to the series"

"approx"

Well, discogs has a #52

So it must go over 48 :)

above 48 seems to be opera related ones

i think they were done much much later, not a part of the original set

and anyway - they're not really numbered! the only number is the end 2 digits of the serial code