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      • Leftmost
        navap, allow either, store as cm internally, display by user preference.:)
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      • nikki
        I wasn't thinking about being that specific :P
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      • Leftmost
        Feet is a bit large of a measurement for that.:P
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      • nikki
        I just mean that I've got cd sized ones, dvd sized ones, those weird thin tall japanese 8cm cd ones and a few which are bigger than dvds and a right pain in the arse to put anywhere
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      • nikki
        haha
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      • hawke_
        it seems to be impossible to set a track to unknown length after you’ve set it to a known length.
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      • Leftmost
        DVD-sized digipaks?
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      • nikki
        assuming I know what a digipak is :P
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      • hawke_
        (In the basic text editor)
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      • Leftmost
        I guess I have DVDs that come in digipak-y containers.
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      • nikki
        back in a bit
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      • Leftmost
        Hmm. So when do we create MovieBrainz?:P
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      • Leftmost
        And BookBrainz.
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      • hawke_
        Make moviebrainz first. :-p
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      • Leftmost
        I care more about books myself.
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      • hawke_
        Yeah, but movies (and DVDs) are much closer to music (and CDs) than books.
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      • hawke_
        Is there a way to delete a disc (medium) in the NGS beta?
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      • hawke_
        The freaking text editor keeps on setting the length of tracks other than the one with which I’m working, in addition to the one with which I’m working.
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      • Leftmost
        In what way are they closer?
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      • Leftmost
        Form factor?
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      • hawke_
        Books in digital form are much less standardized....
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      • hawke_
        In printed form, they tend to have a lot more printings and editions.
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      • Leftmost
        I don't see how that makes movies any more suitable for databasification, though.
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      • Leftmost
        And also word coinerosity.
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      • hawke_
        I think the MB schema could be adapted to movies much more easily than to books.
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      • hawke_
        That’s all.
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      • Leftmost
        I'm sure that for either movies or books you'd want to create a custom-suited schema, rather than trying to adapt one.
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      • hawke_
        Well...if that’s the case then it’s already done: See imdb, goodreads, etc.
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      • Leftmost
        Neither have open data. Open Library does, I think, but I haven't tried their new setup and their old one was kind of terrible.
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      • hawke_
        Open in what sense? Open to editing, or providing APIs to retrieve their data?
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      • Leftmost
        Licensing and retrieval. IMDB isn't really editable and goodreads just bottles up their data.
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      • hawke_
        No, I know imdb isn’t editable; I agree with that one.
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      • hawke_
        imdb isn’t open in any sense.
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      • Muz
        I'm sure they used to do data dumps
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      • Muz
        And imdb is editable if you sign up and pay iirc.
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      • hawke_
        Is there anywhere official that I should be reporting problems that I find with the NGS test?
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      • nikki
        jira I guess, for release editor stuff you might want to ping warp first
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      • hawke_
        Alright.
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      • hawke_
        I’ll talk to warp then, when I get a chance.
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      • hawke_
        Anyone know what “Enable vinyl track numbers” does?
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      • navap
        Maybe it will parse the letter out of track numbers like: a1, a2, a3, b1, b2, b3
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      • hawke_
        navap: Maybe. I can’t see that it’s doing anything now.
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      • hawke_
        The track numbers seem to be totally ignored in the basic editor.
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      • navap
        The editor on test is not finished. It's still got plenty of missing features.
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      • navap
        The track parser options look like they were taken from the options available on the current server.
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      • hawke_
        You can put pretty much anything (e.g: “testnum testname” will appear as “1. testname” in the preview.
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      • hawke_
        Woo, a crash...
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      • hawke_
        Caught exception in MusicBrainz::Server::Controller::Release->edit "Attribute (name) does not pass the type constraint because: Validation failed for 'Str' failed with value ARRAY(0xe8a57a4) at /home/mbserver/musicbrainz/mb_server/script/../lib/MusicBrainz/Server/Form/Field/ArtistCredit.pm line 61
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      • mat_
        is there a way to import a discogs release into mb ?
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      • Leftmost
        No.
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      • Leftmost
        Except manually.
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      • mat_
        the release I'm interested in has two tracks, I can live with manually :)
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      • nikki
        there's a track parser hidden away in the blue box near the top of the add release page
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      • nikki
        where you can paste a track list and it'll attempt to figure it out
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      • hawke_
        OK, I guess I see that “Enable vinyl track numbers” allows you to use arbitrary text when entering text numbers in the plain-text editor, but I really don’t see the point, if it doesn’t actually retain whatever you’ve put in for track numbers...
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      • nikki
        so that it detects them and doesn't leave them in the track name
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      • nikki
        well, at least, that's what the option is for at the moment
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      • hawke_
        Why even have the track numbers there, if it doesn’t do anything with them at all?
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      • hawke_
        It basically treats linebreaks as track entries...
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      • nikki
        I assume the idea is that it will eventually do everything the track parser does
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      • nikki
        but I don't know for sure. I didn't design any of it
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