#musicbrainz

Is the only way to add releases from the web interface?

Are there alternatives interfaces for musicbrainz, or a lib to code one?

unfortunately the web interface is the only want to add releases

er, the only way

there are libs out there for reading data from mb though

nikki: it wouldn't be hard to write a client to deal with it, right?

with the adding process

hmm... it's not hard to write things to seed the release editor

but submitting an entire release without using the web interface at all is harder since you'd need to find artist ids and stuff, and I doubt we'd condone it right now for various reasons

it is something quite a few people have expressed an interest in though

I would have a look at picard's add cluster as release, that lets you take an unmatched cluster and open the site with the track names already filled in

that'd be very useful!

3% of albums were correctly detected and a lot of false positives were generated. Is the correct procedure to delete these and add every everything else by hand?

Hmm

Any ideas of what the sortname for this should be? http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/relationship...

reosarevok: dude. WTF?

M△S▴C△RA & Ç⋵ℜ⋻♏ð♑ℷa⇂ ╀

???

what the hell is that

how do you even pronounce

They call it drag / witch house

is that what it means?

And I found out that they seem to just use "Mascara" and "Ceremonial Dagger"

Nah, that's the "genre"

They all love to use these weird symbols

i give fuck all about genre

idf that's the line then Mascara and Ceremonial Dagger should be the sort name

Yeah, I found it later

In this case it even makes some sense

not to me

ð sounds nothing like o

it's d or th

Yeah, but it "looks" like an o

(in their twisted mind)

nope.

haha they are lame

I mean, there is

//▲▲▲\\\

Which is pronounced "Void"

:p

but that's not supposed ot be anything

it's for the luls

And

GuMMy†Be▲R!

And lots of random names like that

i have this pet peeve with (usually english speaking) bands/etc that use "unicode" for "oohh i'm so cool" effect (not including heavy metal umlaut)

things liek tool or whatver callign an album "Ænima" thinkign it sounds liek something it totally doesn't

Well, I've always found the heavy metal umlaut equally silly

But yeah, it is silly

If a release is a track-by-track remix of another

it looks like they used a computer and went through charmap looking for "exotic stuff" that "kinda looks like another letter"

Should I add the AR to the releases as well as the tracks?

uh...

And yeah, I bet that's basically what they did

i think.. idk? i think remix album link is for when the album is a remixed into one song..

ask someone else I think

someone who works like fwith that. luks might know

re heavy metal umlaut: i think it's the severity of it, if a band or thing does it just a little it's ok i think, just for fun. but if the whole everything is liek that. lame

you know? not overdo it

Enjoy your food!

i have here the entire amazon music catalog

I'm the annoying _Dave BTW

i'm goign to see how much BBC product is actually in mbz...

are ASIN numbers in mbz? i forget...

oh wait, i have ean's too

sweet, this works: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/release/?type=xml&a...

ok, that's odd

no title for an overall release, jsut (disc 1) and (disc 2) for the different discs

same goes for mbz id

is the throttle one request per second?

i think so

there are oddities around

BBC has a project to put mbz on their servers for over 6 months. still nothing.

its a pain to set up, no surprise there

maybe after the docs are updated

what is a pain?

better

a mysql dump with views mapping to the REST queries would be nice :)

installing the server was a nightmare

took me a few weekends of banging my head against my keyboard

there should be a package of some sort

or somethign

i don't have the time or budget for that

the worst part for me was resolving all the perl dependencies

the readme was deceptively simple

still can't find bon jovi in the database.. weird

i've already updated it with all the replication packets

i'm just going through bbc products on amazon seeing what's in the database

oddly, princess diana's funeral isn't there :)

i reckcon that's a banging tune

this is so frustrating.. why can't i find bon jovi in here?

did i import something wrong?

geez

ok

wobblewobble: didn't you hear? Bon Jovi doesn't like the internet because it's destroying music. I bet he is hiding himself or something

Artist X presents Artist Y

style?

hahah

ten13: Depends

well he's not the only one

that's all it says on the album art

metallica isn't there either.. weird.

ten13: does it indicate if Artist X actually performs anything?

If it is a release by Artist Y, then attribute it to artist Y

sounds like X is producing Y