#musicbrainz

I make a silly mistake and the server really rubs it in by entering it twice :p http://musicbrainz.org/release/ea64b39c-9251-4e...

hi, I added some CDs before I remembered that I had a musicbrainz account, and I am wondering how I can find those edits I submitted anonymously now?

if you know which CDs you added you can look at their edit histories

one of the CDs I can't find, so i guess it didn't get accepted

and another is an australian version of an existing release, where the aus release had 2 extra tracks

Added anonymously? Do you refer to CD Stubs?

Because you can't edit anything else without a MB account

KRSCuan: I'm not sure. it just came up in Sound Juicer in ubuntu, and I clicked "submit this info", and then on the musicbrainz site it tells you you can create an account or submit it the "simple" way, so i did the simple way

The "simple way" is adding a CD Stub

I'm afraid you can only search them based on their title or artist.

If one of them wasn't accepted, that may be because we already have a DiscID (or another CD Stub) for the same CD

so should it come up in the search? because it doesn't

Do you search for CD stubs?

Which releases are we dealing with?

"Kicking Indifference" by The Pictures was one

I just put it in again and since I am logged in, i guess, it found a cd stub

cd stubs don't come up in the search? are they like waiting to be accepted?

I'm not sure whether they can be looked up by clients like Picard or using the FreeDB gateway, but they aren't in the main database until they are imported by a registered user.

You could have clicked on "Import CD Stub" on http://musicbrainz.org/show/cdstub/index.html?d...

As part of cleaning up the ARs, I've attempted to reconcile and merge together all the different compiling, DJ mixing, mastering, mixing, remastering, remixing, and sampling terms, rather than having half of them redefined in each AR.

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Mix_Terminology if anyone cares to check that I've not totally screwed anything up in the process :)

KRSCuan: well i think i did just now

you can't search in the cd stubs?

pfctdayelise: More like "waiting to be adopted" than "waiting to be accepted"

hmm

pfctdayelise: I can't see what you clicked, I just saw your edit ;)

so I just added a release event to this http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=... , now it has to be approved by someone else before it shows up?

how do you see the 'edit history' of something?

"View release edits", "View artist edits" etc.

It's usually on the top right.

ah, thanks

brianfreud: yeah i don't either... maybe it didn't save. i'll try again...

hmm, is the label the one who has the copyright or the distributor?

neither, normally - the 'label' is closest to the 'imprint'

hmm

probably it's their logo next to the barcode, right?

no hard and fast rules; http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/How_To_Identify_Labels has pictures to try and help though

is it safe to rely on wikipedia for the label? this album has (P) the band but I assume that doesn't make them their own label

pfctdayelise: wikipedia is more often wrong than correct

for release-specific label information, that is :)

hmm

well i just ended up creating a new label, although i didn't really want to, but i really think it is the label

ok I tried to add an Australian release of a CD to an existing release group. I have no idea what I actually did... http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?...

The only way to add a release to an existing release group is to go there and click on "Add release".

It's a bit clumsy because release groups were only added last year, but the code for other edits wasn't changed that much.

But you can merge the new release group into the existing one.

In case anyone is interested. I've not done attributes yet, but I've checked each AR against wiki, its proposal, and the server. Here's every AR we have (or should have), graphically: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:BrianSchweitze...

http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicken-... oh god it looks good

the contents that is... not that stinky url

mmm fettuccine alfredo

That looks so good

i've never poached chicken like that, i have to try that

it looks so tender

Yeah it doesn't look all dried out and chewy

anyone here familiar with picard scripting?

im having trouble with the $rsearch command

Curtis, what's the problem?

$set(comment,$rsearch(%title%,\\s\\\(feat. [^\)]+\\\))

i based that off of the rreplace line in the documentation example (that removes feat. artist from the title)

i did some testing with $if, and as far as i can tell, rsearch is not returning anything with that line

Hmm. Looks to me like you haven't actually specified any groups to match.

i thought this: \\s\\\(feat. [^\)]+\\\)

was the group its supposed to match

So that'll match a string, but it has no groups, per se. I'm not sure how to explain it well, but you need to group things by surrounding them with parentheses.

(\\s\\\(feat. [^\)]+\\\))

like that?

so the whole command would be:

Well, I'm guessing you only want to pull out the artist name, right?

$set(comment,$rsearch(%title%,(\\s\\\(feat. [^\)]+\\\)))

no, the (feat. ARTIST) works

i have my script looking for those parts before and after in the comment

so (feat. gets replaced with Featuring

and ) gets replaced with a .

Alright. Well, try that then.

ok

thanks for your help

ima give that a try right now

i get an unexpected error

regarding the \

erm

the parentheses

Try escaping them with \

k

I'm not sure, haven't tried to use regex in picard.

k

whats confusing me is its not working the same as rreplace

i figured rreplace was just rsearch with the replacing functionality ended

Quantum[Nugget], it helps to be familiar with how regular expressions work outside of picard. Usually a match, the equivalent of rsearch, will just return true if something matches the string.

You can get specific parts of the string, however, by grouping them.

The parentheses, essentially.

k, ill do some reading on regular expressions

i think escaping parenthesis just adds that to the string its searching for

thanks for your help, im going to read the link on regular expressions

to make sure im understanding what you said,

my command might be working, but rsearch is basically just saying "yeah, i found that" instead of actually handing it off, with substituions, to the $set function?

Without knowing the internals better, I can't say for sure, but I bet it's passing it off to the regular expression engine and then waiting for the engine to send back groups, where the engine is just being like "yep, that matches".

i'm not sure if you'd be able to help me here, because you mentioned you dont know the internals