#musicbrainz

edits are not as strongly scrutinized

MxCon: I got it.what about freedb, I couldn't find a dump file?

jack__: http://www.freedb.org/en/download__database.10....

MxxCon: sorry, I wrote your name wrongly

huh, interesting. the /file size/ of the public domain musicbrainz data (mbdump.tar.bz2) is larger than the freedb or discogs database dumps.

even though we have fewer artists and releases.

I found dump file but I don't know anything about freedb. :/

as I search in musicbrainz search tool for Freedb, I doesn't look like good.

heh, moved my mbz to-do list from open tabs in opera to a sticky note, so now i have *only* about 30 tabs open. which means that in addition to favicons, tab bar now also shows some text. which feels unbelievably weird :P

XD tabgroups ftw!

oh yes. sooo useful for grouping pages related to some release i intend to improve sometime in the future :P

Are there any old-timers here who can answer some historical MB questions?

I've been looking at the statistics and have some questions.

What caused the dropoff in active editors starting in 2006?

Any idea why active editors appears to have stabilized in late 2008 and remained fairly constant since?

The stats for open edits sort of appears to have reacted to the decrease in active editors, that is, in mid-2007 there is a jump up of open edits and it's been significantly above the ~6000 level that had always existed previously.

2006 i think was the removal of mb from google search the mid-2007 jump in edits was i think advanced relationships

Ahh, so with fewer MB hits in Google post-2006, do we think that fewer people discovered MB at all and hence fewer editors joined up?

i would say so

brian123: increase of open edits mid-2007 is due to introduction of data quality: since then, edit are open for 2 weeks by default (and not 1 week anymore)

hmm, looks like modbot is back after taking the weekend off :-)

drsaunde: yea, I just fixed it

now if you could only get the bot to run another orphaned recordings cleanup :-)

sure, I can do that

I'd like to wait til some of the other related stuff passes review first

We're going to need a report for that though, because it doesn't remove recordings that have any data associated (tags, ratings, relationships, etc)

although presumably recordings from an add release that was cancelled or voted down wouldn't have those things

some do :)

hi all!

hello

I'm trying to add my first "Add release" edit to the MB, since the new scheme. It's a new album on Jamendo, so I'm a bit confused about "Packaging" field... What should I choose for digital download? "None"?

yes, none

nikki: thanks

nikki, do you have this list of number of rels per type around

Also, ever considered turning your home page from INDEX GOES HERE into an actual page with links to the useful stuff? :p

Oh, http://mb.lmfao.org.uk/ is it

hm. I should update that

you should :)

But first go enjoy your holidays

well now it's more up to date than it was :P

Finished... Now, MB became even more awesome! :D [And, BTW, editor for track names/lengths confused me a lot :( ]

xplt: you may find the advanced editor easier to use

click "Advanced" in the tracklist page

ocharles: That's what I did

am I the only one who think it's cute that he kid is bading with the snake? http://img.uphaa.com/uploads/911/uphaa-parentin...

what's the concensus on crossfaded recordings, should they be merged with the original?

and recordings which have been cut short, for the purposes of a mix

don't really feel like it qualifies as a new mix or edit

me either honeslty.. but i am not sure

i dont think there is a consensus 'bout that.

in general i'd say new recording since a lot of mix-djs add stuff. e.g. singing along, looping passages,..

well it's already a seperate recording, just considering merging

bleh, guess I won't bother

the chatlogs are really annoying to read on a phone :/

nikkiphone, you're addicted :p

should all these be merged, or only each box? http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/9c142fb9-e...

well what else am i going to do while waiting for a delayed plane? :p

nikkiphone <3

heh http://vsm.com--live.com/admin/uploads/epicsnap...

i'd say if it was released all as one release that it should only be one in mb too

ok, i have asked this before but got no reply, how do you split-up a release that was incorrectly merged (discs) in ngs?

Badly

I don't think there's an actual way

Short of removing / readding mediums

nikkiphone, 雷強 has the comment "traditional"

Any idea if it should be merged into trad?

it could be someone's name

it doesn't seem to mean traditional

reosarevok_: link?

Maybe it is supposed to be "this is traditional chinese" :p

Hmm

It's a person

But tags are

chinese, chinese traditional, erhu, traditional

I guess he's an interpreter of traditional chinese music

Oh

Ok

Sortname is being changed :)

(and the artist being cleaned up in general http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3b8aa15f-5445-4b6... )