#musicbrainz

/

      • shisma
        how to connect the translator?
      • 2012-11-01 30645, 2012

      • kovacsur
      • 2012-11-01 30607, 2012

      • CallerNo6 joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30652, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        Freso, put it (the cooling thingy) in the back pocket of a cycling jersey?
      • 2012-11-01 30651, 2012

      • MJ joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30651, 2012

      • KingJ joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30655, 2012

      • drsaunde joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30622, 2012

      • kepstin-laptop joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30638, 2012

      • Lomaxx joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30634, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        hm server-problems? I'm about to loose another relationship-edit-session :oP
      • 2012-11-01 30610, 2012

      • TheLastProject joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30632, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        I only get white pages for any MBz-url
      • 2012-11-01 30643, 2012

      • Freso
        Cycling jersey?
      • 2012-11-01 30644, 2012

      • _Dave_ joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30650, 2012

      • _Dave_ has left the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30607, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        Freso, in case you mean me: Sorry, I don't get what you mean.
      • 2012-11-01 30628, 2012

      • Freso
        Lomaxx: I didn't. :)
      • 2012-11-01 30635, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        good =)
      • 2012-11-01 30620, 2012

      • v6lur joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30619, 2012

      • KingJ joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30646, 2012

      • vinci joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30627, 2012

      • drsaunde joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30612, 2012

      • JoeLlama joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30613, 2012

      • JoeLlama joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30602, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        I'm still only getting an empty page when accessing musicbrainz.org. Are you experiencing the same problem?
      • 2012-11-01 30642, 2012

      • derwin
        nope
      • 2012-11-01 30627, 2012

      • reosarevok joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30616, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        Then I don't get what it is. Other internet-sites work well.
      • 2012-11-01 30621, 2012

      • Freso
        Lomaxx: Clear cache?
      • 2012-11-01 30657, 2012

      • kepstin-laptop joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30639, 2012

      • Freso remembers when he was doing LiveJournal support way back, how "clear cache and see if issue is still there" was the far most common answer...
      • 2012-11-01 30603, 2012

      • dekarl joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30617, 2012

      • Freso also muses a bit than even in his years doing Drupal development, "clear cache" is still often the first thing one should do when seeing weird stuff
      • 2012-11-01 30622, 2012

      • Freso
        *that
      • 2012-11-01 30613, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        ... and yet it's still a hidden and obscure command (at least in ff).
      • 2012-11-01 30658, 2012

      • hawke_
        shift+reload is obscure?
      • 2012-11-01 30643, 2012

      • Lomaxx
        Freso, thanks, clearing the cache solved it. It was filled up to the maximum. shift+reload didn't help.
      • 2012-11-01 30632, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        hawke_: is thinking like an engineer. Yes. That's obscure.
      • 2012-11-01 30656, 2012

      • hawke_
        CallerNo6: Yes, but less obscure that options→advanced→whateverthefuck→clear cache
      • 2012-11-01 30659, 2012

      • hawke_
        *than
      • 2012-11-01 30612, 2012

      • hawke_
        (less discoverable though)
      • 2012-11-01 30615, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        true, true
      • 2012-11-01 30651, 2012

      • nikki
        Freso: one by one is the only way anything will get added, imo
      • 2012-11-01 30612, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        nikki, really? I'd always rather see the big picture. Incremental change never gives enough context.
      • 2012-11-01 30631, 2012

      • nikki
        the problem is getting everyone to agree
      • 2012-11-01 30645, 2012

      • derwin
        no it's not
      • 2012-11-01 30602, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        shut up. jerk.
      • 2012-11-01 30608, 2012

      • derwin
        (hehehe)
      • 2012-11-01 30653, 2012

      • watsonalgas joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30630, 2012

      • Freso
        Actually, Firefox also has "Functions -> Clear recent history... (Ctrl+Shift+Delete)" now (or something like that - I'm using the Danish language pack).
      • 2012-11-01 30650, 2012

      • Freso
        That that is the way to clear the cache might be somewhat obscure too, though. :)
      • 2012-11-01 30615, 2012

      • Freso
        hawke_ CallerNo6: ^
      • 2012-11-01 30620, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        nikki, then let's fix the style process :-)
      • 2012-11-01 30644, 2012

      • reosarevok reads chatlogs
      • 2012-11-01 30600, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Freso: rap, specifically, was rejected at some point
      • 2012-11-01 30630, 2012

      • Freso
        reosarevok: But I wanted to use "(human) beatboxing"...
      • 2012-11-01 30649, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Because of the unclear limit between rapping and singing (what does T.I. do?)
      • 2012-11-01 30649, 2012

      • nikki
        CallerNo6: if all you want to do is add new types to the vocal list, then it doesn't make sense to do them as a batch anyway, since they don't depend on each other
      • 2012-11-01 30601, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Freso: Yeah, I know - that one should be safe I guess :)
      • 2012-11-01 30615, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Just said the other thing because I saw it also turned into rap
      • 2012-11-01 30624, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But maybe that was just Lotheric
      • 2012-11-01 30644, 2012

      • nikki has a load of credits waiting for someone to convince other people that we should add 'rap' :/
      • 2012-11-01 30659, 2012

      • nikki
        well, maybe not "load", but at least several
      • 2012-11-01 30608, 2012

      • Freso
        I'd want "rap" too.
      • 2012-11-01 30617, 2012

      • Freso
        Sometimes it *isn't* hard to tell apart.
      • 2012-11-01 30620, 2012

      • Freso
        Most of the time, really.
      • 2012-11-01 30635, 2012

      • Freso
        And when in doubt, choose rap's and singing's common ancestor.
      • 2012-11-01 30656, 2012

      • Freso
        (Or choose both rap *and* singing - performance ARs support that!)
      • 2012-11-01 30605, 2012

      • vinci joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30657, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        That's what I mean by "context". When I hear that somebody is trying to add "rap" I immediately wonder what 50 other things will be added using the same argument, once a precedent is set.
      • 2012-11-01 30634, 2012

      • reosarevok
      • 2012-11-01 30605, 2012

      • voiceinsideyou1 joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30620, 2012

      • hawke_
        Whee, no one agrees on what a recording should be. :-D
      • 2012-11-01 30639, 2012

      • reosarevok
        People disagreeing on style?
      • 2012-11-01 30644, 2012

      • reosarevok
        why, that's unheard of!
      • 2012-11-01 30647, 2012

      • reosarevok
        :)
      • 2012-11-01 30657, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Hmmm
      • 2012-11-01 30609, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Apparently the relationship editor doesn't work well on IE 8 on XP :p
      • 2012-11-01 30611, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Do we care?
      • 2012-11-01 30616, 2012

      • reosarevok
      • 2012-11-01 30636, 2012

      • reosarevok is unsure what browsers we're supposed to be supporting
      • 2012-11-01 30649, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (also, why are the forums still down? :/ )
      • 2012-11-01 30633, 2012

      • voiceinsideyou joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30645, 2012

      • bitmap
        according to http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Development/Supported… we support IE 8+, so yes
      • 2012-11-01 30658, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        Honestly, the recording thread is gettin' me down. I mean, this isn't a minor style detail. Entities should be easily grokked.
      • 2012-11-01 30605, 2012

      • bitmap
        but I don't have any access to IE 8 to test...
      • 2012-11-01 30610, 2012

      • robmorrissey joined the channel
      • 2012-11-01 30654, 2012

      • hawke_
        warp says “any difference is significant”, kepstin says “any difference is significant, and this is what we already do, but gain doesn’t matter and all remasters are lying”, reosarevok says “it’s impossible to identify different recordings, we should just merge similar things”, Sheamus Patt says “I don’t care if there are differences, it’s more convenient and easier to merge different recordings”
      • 2012-11-01 30659, 2012

      • hawke_
        Do I have that all right?
      • 2012-11-01 30634, 2012

      • reosarevok
        hawke_: not exactly
      • 2012-11-01 30646, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I mean, I don't think it's impossible to identify different recordings
      • 2012-11-01 30654, 2012

      • Freso is with warp in that not-exactly-right summary
      • 2012-11-01 30629, 2012

      • kovacsur
        as I see it, this RFC is mostly just spelling things out, things that many felt more comfortable ignoring until now
      • 2012-11-01 30631, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I just think it's too harsh to expect the average user to be able to differentiate analog and digital recordings and whether something is on vinyl but from the digital master or not or what
      • 2012-11-01 30644, 2012

      • Freso
        Merging is "easy", un-merging is "hard".
      • 2012-11-01 30632, 2012

      • hawke_
        reosarevok: Sorry, that’s what I got out of “it seems so unfeasible for everyone except the most dedicated editors to grasp that mostly everyone will probably ignore it”
      • 2012-11-01 30658, 2012

      • reosarevok
        hawke_: the full extent of what he wants, yes
      • 2012-11-01 30623, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I don't expect people to merge, say, all recordings by the same performers of the same work :p
      • 2012-11-01 30640, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But I expect people would see the vinyl and CD version of them as the same thing
      • 2012-11-01 30602, 2012

      • hawke_
        I don’t understand how that could be.
      • 2012-11-01 30622, 2012

      • reosarevok
        And if it was "vinyl is always a different recording" that might even work, but what I read there is stuff like "vinyl is sometimes a new recording, sometimes it's not because it's the digital master pressed to vinyl"
      • 2012-11-01 30626, 2012

      • hawke_
        It seems completely impractical to see vinyl as the same as shellac.
      • 2012-11-01 30628, 2012

      • reosarevok
        How am I even supposed to know
      • 2012-11-01 30652, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        Bob Dylan's edits page has been 502ing for hours http://musicbrainz.org/artist/72c536dc-7137-4477-…
      • 2012-11-01 30654, 2012

      • hawke_
        er
      • 2012-11-01 30657, 2012

      • hawke_
        vinyl the same as digital
      • 2012-11-01 30628, 2012

      • hawke_
        (or in the cases I’m thinking of, shellac the same as digital, but…)
      • 2012-11-01 30606, 2012

      • reosarevok
        Hmm, actually, wouldn't that digital version most likely be a direct digitisation of the shellac since original recording stuff is likely to have been lost?
      • 2012-11-01 30623, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        It sounds like everybody is more interested in tracking what makes these things different, and less interested in tracking what makes them similar.
      • 2012-11-01 30633, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        (recordings, I mean)
      • 2012-11-01 30615, 2012

      • reosarevok
        I wouldn't have a problem with making recordings more meaningful for the average user and then having sub-recording stuff for digital / analog / remasters
      • 2012-11-01 30625, 2012

      • reosarevok
        (kinda like works / arrangements)
      • 2012-11-01 30631, 2012

      • reosarevok
        But if we can only have one level...
      • 2012-11-01 30647, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        My vague idea is that if two recordings have significant differences, let them be unique in the DB. Significant being mixes, masters that mess with the dynamic compression, overdubs, radio edits, etc.
      • 2012-11-01 30658, 2012

      • Freso
        Yeah, I want "super" recordings/recording groups too. :|
      • 2012-11-01 30610, 2012

      • hawke_
        reosarevok: I’m more referring to multiple different digitizations.
      • 2012-11-01 30645, 2012

      • reosarevok
        jacobbrett: yeah, that's my view too, but what "significant" means seems to be different for everyone :p
      • 2012-11-01 30650, 2012

      • Freso
      • 2012-11-01 30607, 2012

      • Freso
        I don't want to merge those two recordings.
      • 2012-11-01 30613, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        reosarevok: Great, then let's work on implementing "super recordings" and work out the rest on the Style list!
      • 2012-11-01 30619, 2012

      • hawke_
        Freso: Which two?
      • 2012-11-01 30625, 2012

      • Freso
      • 2012-11-01 30644, 2012

      • kovacsur
        no one in their right mind would want to merge those, they're different edits, not only different masters
      • 2012-11-01 30646, 2012

      • warp
        CallerNo6: yes, because merged recordings which I consider to be seperate recordings on my local collection cause me a LOT more trouble than seperate recordings which I consider the same.
      • 2012-11-01 30647, 2012

      • hawke_
        Freso: It doesn’t seem that anyone wants to merge those two.
      • 2012-11-01 30649, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        Freso: Definately separate, IMO.
      • 2012-11-01 30650, 2012

      • Freso
        To me, they're "significantly" different enough to not warrant a merge.
      • 2012-11-01 30626, 2012

      • Freso
        But they're both from the same "master" from the studio. The fade-out is just different. (Ie., the fade out is made 8 seconds "faster"/shorter on one.)
      • 2012-11-01 30612, 2012

      • hawke_
        Freso: So the issue is the “a new recording should only be used when the difference in length is greater than 10 seconds.”?
      • 2012-11-01 30608, 2012

      • hawke_
        (Which, together with the ISRC being the same, would suggest that they should be merged, under the proposed guidelines — right?)
      • 2012-11-01 30619, 2012

      • kovacsur
        does anyone agree with that? I was about to reply to that on the mailing list but I saw warp already did
      • 2012-11-01 30619, 2012

      • jacobbrett
        Freso: For me as a consumer, I might prefer to listen to the one with extra fade-out and not have them confused in the MBDB, which is used as a data source by many applications and organisations that I may associate with.
      • 2012-11-01 30636, 2012

      • Freso
        hawke_: The issue is that they're not the same audio yet they have the same source, just mastered/mixed differently for the two compilations - thus there's no good solution without super/master recordings/recording groups. :)
      • 2012-11-01 30636, 2012

      • kovacsur
        the 10 second rule, that is
      • 2012-11-01 30601, 2012

      • hawke_
        kovacsur: I believe that was taken from the ISRC guidelines.
      • 2012-11-01 30602, 2012

      • Freso
        jacobbrett: Exactly.
      • 2012-11-01 30613, 2012

      • kovacsur
        hawke, I know, but it clearly doesn't apply to us
      • 2012-11-01 30623, 2012

      • kovacsur
        ISRCs are much more limited, more likely to run out than MBIDs
      • 2012-11-01 30625, 2012

      • hawke_
        as in “that looks like a good idea, maybe we should follow the same thing”
      • 2012-11-01 30648, 2012

      • hawke_
        I would be in favor of removing that 10-second rule
      • 2012-11-01 30606, 2012

      • hawke_
        So no exception for fade length at all?
      • 2012-11-01 30614, 2012

      • hawke_
        Does that mean that any change to the fading = new recording?
      • 2012-11-01 30622, 2012

      • hawke_
        Some people don’t want that, I understand
      • 2012-11-01 30623, 2012

      • kovacsur
        I would say yes
      • 2012-11-01 30658, 2012

      • kovacsur
        it's the same problem as the countless different masters, really -- we need another abstraction layer
      • 2012-11-01 30623, 2012

      • CallerNo6
        warp: I understand why collectors and audiophiles would want that. That level of granularity is great, but if it can't be hidden by moving up one level of abstraction, then it's just noise after a while.
      • 2012-11-01 30654, 2012

      • CatCat
        how you clar cache in chrome?
      • 2012-11-01 30610, 2012

      • CatCat
        hawke: cat cat says " it's easier to just merge all the recordings, and then sort out the ones we *know* to be different"
      • 2012-11-01 30658, 2012

      • CatCat
        creating a new recording isn't difficult
      • 2012-11-01 30601, 2012

      • CatCat
        (imho)