#musicbrainz

no idea. i've only just started using picard recently

Me too.

did it used to work?

oh okay.

(only a few days ago)

might ask one of the devs?

hmm.. no idea

none here either... :-P

yeah that's why i cam in here to ask

came*

Ah. maybe http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=...

aha

hopefully this will work.

I've got to go now, but good luck. :-)

howdy

is there a way to search flickr for photos by mbid?

i found this: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=music...

chovy probably meant ' on the Flick Machine Tag wiki page (musicbrainz.org) -- but i don't see an example of searching by mbid. '

on the Flick Machine Tag wiki page (mb.org) -- but i don't see an example of searching by mbid.

Insteag of searching for musicbrainz:artist, search for musicbrainz:artist=<MBID>

ok

i guess there isn't a lot of mbid tagged photos

I think that might be because people don't know it's possible (or why it might be useful)

yeah

any other resources that i can get photos given an mbid?

i've got basic search results for an artist, but there isn't much content. I'd like to add photos at least.

ie: http://cdyak.com/search/Jay-Z

i need to get 'em in one query though.

navap: that's pretty neat

Where are you getting the pictures for the artists at the bottom?

those are from another api, that returns a list of similar artists to the search results.

it's a bit klunky though.

alastairp: Yeah, see, people need to know about it!

hmm, hate to panhandle for votes, but i have a high quality edit with no votes yet that will be expiring in a few hours.... http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=12085972

navap, thanks

what am i voting on?

The linked edit?

chovy: It's ugly, but you could use Wikipedia relationships and parse the page and see if they have an artist photo available.

The BBC also has photos, but I'm sure they're not open licensed http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/f82bcf78-5b6...

phew, that was a painfully long winded email.

Seems I've caught the brianfreud bug :p

anyone mind giving me a hand with syntax for the picard?

I'm looking to move "the" to the end of file names

instead of the artist name

which has those changes as a matter of style

though it also puts names in Surname, Firstname format

I'm going to be a bit of a charity case here

(you've already lost me)

ah, found it on the wiki

I'll try my best with it

thanks

cool

so it's a bit of a community maintained tag?

what do you mean?

all data is community maintained

well, it's intelligent in it's discrimination of names

I mean syntax tag

sorry, poor word choice (may still be poor)

I take it there is no albumsortname?

you mean it's entered automatically rather than computer generated?

pah,

entered manually

well, to cite the wiki, it knows to not change Cypress Hill to Hill, Cypress

right, that's because someone made it 'Cypress Hill'

ah

and Clapton would be input as 'Eric' 'Clapton' or Eric Clapton, or something of the like?

Claptop, Eric I suppose

see the 3rd line down - after the birth date

that's the "sortname"

ahh

ok

fantastic, the preview looks proper

and again, no AlbumSortName?

Nope

damn

oh well

how would that work?

moving "the"s

from the title of the album?

not nearly as important as the artist sort, but would've been nice to use if it existed

I don't know why the ID3 spec has an album sort name frame.

yup

If it's just the "the"s that are being ignored, any player could do that automatically.

or I could do it by hand

just being a bit spoiled

:D

well, have a good night/day based on where you are

and thanks again

lol, navap, I started to write a response to that email, then I realized it was from you, not jacobbrett

haha

I imagine you disagree with a few things in it :)

:P

ok... I really am trying to understand his SwissChris' complaint about the ordering of things in the PARC proposal...

Is there some difference in meaning (that's escaping me) between "3/4 and half" vs "half and 3/4" - assuming that was actually what the proposed text even said?

brianfreud: One thing I don't understand is why a lot of your proposals have borken links in them to non-existant pages.

what borken links?

Broken* :)

no, I got that. :D I mean, what broken pages?

the attribute pages?

Yeah

Ah. As I mentioned in my reply to SwissChris, half the existing Attribute pages are currently missing (them, plus the 8 or so ARs that were missing pages).

Do the attributes need separate pages though?

The AR template auto-generates the link to that page; I just haven't touch the attribute pages yet.

Will their definitions always stay the same no matter the relationship using that attribute?

My guess is that they'll mostly be just "this attribute is used by the following ARs" backlink pages, for the ones that don't already exist

If that's the case then I would much rather not have them there.

We don't need more atomization.

No, but I think the original idea (which still makes sense to me) was that an attribute always be used in a semi-consistent manner

Yeah I get that.

the "transliterated" attr being different than the multiple uses of the "translated" attr for example

But it looks like the attribute will always be described on the relationship page, so adding a separate page is silly.

as I say, it's mainly a backlink page

but the same is pretty much true of family pages

We do not need more backlink pages.

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:BrianSchweitze... <- you can see which already exist, and which don't

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Performer_Relations... provides everything I need to know.

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Vocal_Relationship_... is not required.

however, that said, the description used on the site *is* consistent in the attr definition, so there theoretically could be further detail on such a page.

hm?

Some will be stub-ish back-linkish. Others, not so much (vocal, instrument, orchesta as examples)