#musicbrainz

ok, your're right

where do I set it?

go the the release page, then click edit. On the tracklist editor there's a drop-down box to set the medium type.

got it. thanks

you know what would be cool? showing little thumbnails of album art on pages which list releases :)

kepstin-laptop: wouldn't that make NGS slower?

probably.

not by that much, and it depends on how the album art is hosted.

(compared to the classic server, NGS is blazing fast already :)

wtf 4 days when i log in to my account in MB I watch "Error:

Couldn't render template "undef error - The timezone 'Etc/GMT-4' could not be loaded, or is an invalid name. "

and even can't watch the data

:/

ocharles: do we have a known bug with timezones?

reosarevok: yes, it's going to be fixed tonight

Ok :)

dubwai: I can update your timezone now though

dubwai: is America/Rio_Branco correct?

Russia )

dubwai: choose a timezone from http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/DateTime-TimeZo...

why the hell are there no russian timezones? that's a bit odd...

ocharles, they're under Europe/CityName

oh, right

but if DateTime::TimeZone::Europe::Moscow

it's by continent/city, not country :)

right :)

now i can edit? :-)

hmm. in the release editor on the recordings association tab - if you do a search and get no results, you can't make the popup box that shows the lack of results go away

dubwai: log out and back in, and it should work now

kepstin-laptop: i think we have a bug report for that

ocharles: thanks, now i think all ok

where change from album to compilation

There we go. Now /that/'s a release list: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/e5d8151b-fd82-469...

only has their solo albums, so it's still not quite complete, but still :)

and by 'their solo', I mean that it's missing a single soundtrack album :)

I don't think it does.

Tags "d"?

not my fault.

...

what does 'd' mean?

it means the artist will need disambiguation when we display localised names

I usually do

but sometimes I'm just too lazy

if I forgot, I'll surely remember when looking at what else I tagged

if I don't remember, it obviously wasn't that interesting

I did already fix the two abe asamis though, I figured that 4 squiggles are already confusable if you can't understand kanji

hmm. apparently スフィア is MusicRay'n's "Super Girls Unit"

why i can't chage type of release?

only release groups have types, releases inherit them

also why i can't add note to my cancled edit

no button to submit

you have to use the inappropriately named "vote on all edits" button at the bottom

ok

ok where change type of relese group? :-)

go to the release group page and use the edit tab :)

i think in right coloumn, also would be good

have button to edit :-)

we've tried to only link to things from one place

I argued in the past that the edit tab should be a link in the sidebar instead, but didn't win the argument :P

lol

my example show that it's hard to find it

))

what mean Medium 1

disc 1, basically

except we don't know that it's a disc

what mean that we don't know?

your think that it's only digital release?

disc have only 500 copies

i know it :-D

we don't know because the edit hasn't passed yet

hmm. the artist page's overview tab is really a 'release groups' tab.

thats why I want artist images and artist wikipedia excerpts on that page.

how would we do images?

some relationships would be good, too

machine tagged images in flickr

show artist-artist relationships, at least.

we just need to build some pages that funnel people to flickr to do that.

"want an artist image here?" upload to flickr and tell us about the URL here.

and like kepstin-laptop suggest, the artist image links would be good too.

one of the companies I'm talking to right now has request an aritst image headshot AR.

ruaok, I meant more showing artist-artist relationships like groups, performance names, etc.

they have a boatload of images they want to link from MB

nikki, well, that's flickr's problem to take care of violations there ;)

nikki: in that case, just use the artist-image AR.

I wonder if we can squeeze artist images into the cover art project as well.

ruaok: but that won't display on the page and people will get jealous of the flickr images that do

but yeah, pulling the summary from a wikipedia page onto things with wikipedia links would be really cool.

eek, I dont want to go there, nikki.

bah

I might drive up the the internet archive (and google) next week to see if we can nail down some basic rules for the cover art project.

agreed.

I have no problem with “must be your own scans”

it all depends on what brewster will be ok with.

I am generally of the opinion that if I don’t have a copy of a release, I don’t much care about it.

and he gets bullish on these things

hawke_: you're welcome to explain a zillion times to people that they have to go get a scanner, not just copy something from the web then :P

And if I have a copy, I can scan it. :-)

and making good scans of album art is tricky, sometimes it's just easier to use a copy someone else scanned :/

we *still* have people trying to link to random sites that aren't allowed on our whitelist, so I can't see people paying any attention to rules like "you can only upload your own scans"

The web has so few decent scans anyway, so who cares? :-)

depends where you look

kepstin-laptop: I don’t think it’s hard at all…at least for CDs.

records might be a bit harder given the size.

hawke__, well, depends the resolution you scan at, and the quality of your scanner's demoire filter

to get a 300dpi image that looks good on a computer monitor requires a good scan and clever use of image editor filters.

once you resize down to about 100dpi or lower, it's not as much of an issue.

(The 500×500 images on Amazon are about 100dpi)

the nice thing about having a scan server is that I won't need to have a directory of scans used as reference material any more: http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~cwalton3/mb/ :)

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he's just gone and linked them to 'whatever came up', too.

yeah

I find it amusing how you can say no to adding a tracklist, and then get left with a medium that has no releases ;)

er, release with no mediums*