#musicbrainz

Anyone interested in a brief discussion of audiobook style? The conversation seems effectively dead and I'd at least like to get some guidelines for a couple I'd like to enter.

i'm new to the conversation, but should an audiobook really be part of mb? (i'm sure that's been mentioned before.)

I believe it's been discussed, and for now the answer is "Yes".

i guess it just depends how broad MB needs to be. i don't know if mb does it already, but seems like that would include speeches, news reports, radio shows, etc..

Well, part of the argument for audiobooks I think is that they're released in a manner similar to music, and on similar media. Not that that makes them part of the intended scope, but it does mean that they also can be ripped and need tagging and so, for convenience's sake, they're included.

and you can't really say "just anything with an ISAN number" because that would eliminate bootlegs.

well it would be convenient to add movies too ;)

sorry, devil's advocate

Anyhow, this isn't intended to be a discussion of how appropriate they are. The database already allows for them. I just want to figure out how to enter them.

oh, i didn't know it allowed them

....and i can't really help with naming, so i'll step out of the convo :)

Under secondary types for release groups.

There's a discussion (about audiobooks) here: http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/Audiob...

Right, but it's from a few years ago.

the guideline is: there is no guideline. just enter them how you like them to be

that was when i last checked

yeah, they are allowed

and I think nobody is really taking the lead

Leftmost: you're the "audiobooks editor" now!

i guess most important for audiobook listner is that they are correctly ordered even with crappy playback equipement in cars

yeah.

so they most likely have some numbering added, thats what i came across most of the time

ehrgeiz, I know there's no existing guideline. The point is I'd like to work to find some.

hmm. looks like the weekend archive.org failure has begun :/

Leftmost: sorry, i have no real opinion about this topic.

it's almost like archive.org doesn't want my awesome cover art data :/

What jerks. You should shake your fist at them.

they're still getting 0.02 successful musicbrainz cover uploads per second :)

but compared to 0.17 slowdown errors per second, that's not good odds.

Are we (unofficially) not supposed to apply sort name style to Romanised Japanese names? http://musicbrainz.org/edit/19598047

nikki

jacobbrett: that's what I do, I haven't seen any issues with that.

http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mb... - whee, now with wikipedia summaries.

no workie?

( b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d is the beatles)

kepstin: ^^

derwin: works now

ah, I see.

it has release group wikipedia descriptions now too :)

http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/temp/mb... looks pretty cool.

hrm, no link to the wikipedia page

it's there. just very small

it's the text 'Wikipedia' in the little attribution thing below the text.

oh I see

I figured that'd be a link to the main wiki page.

yeah, well :)

hmm. I wonder if I should try to include a 'nominal' tracklist on the release group page.

while I'm at it, I should support using localized aliases and localized wikipedia pages where available...

and fix the issue where it only loads the first 100 release groups for an artist :)

or maybe just make my release page not suck.

hmm. deals poorly with the case of an entity having multiple wikipedia page links

just picks one at random

guess I try again tomorrow.

if youre free feel free import brq 066 - brq 086 http://www.discogs.com/label/Broque thanks :)

Hi, I want to merge two releases into a new one without deleting the old releases. Basically I want to add a set with Release1+Release2 that isn't in MB and both individual releases are in MB. What is the best way to do that?

Axio`: you will have to add a new release

warp: I know that!

Axio`: on the tracklist tab, click "Add Disc", and you can there search for existing releases and chose a disc to copy into the new release.

I missed that, I am going to try

warp: thanks it worked

great :)