does musicbrainz get all its album cover image locations from amazon?
BrianG
at the moment, yes
kwijibo
do you know what the copyright restrictions involved in reusing them are?
BrianG
no idea
kwijibo
hmm
I'm building a small site for a local record shop, and using the musicbrainz api to help the owner catalogue his stock, and I'm wondering whether it would be allowed to use the images on the frontend of his site
I strongly suspect not
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kwijibo
I think that's one of the things amazon probably take a dim view of - using their site to help their competitors
it's a shame there isn't an online repository of release artwork, unlinked to any one commercial concern
presumably the record labels don't object to the use of their artwork
FauxFaux needs album art if I'm going to keep using these pretty players instead of foobar.
Muz_
FauxFaux needs a moose, because they're better than poooonies
FauxFaux
Noes, noes!
Muz_
Yes yes
FauxFaux
FauxFaux remembers that it's not the weekend.
Muz_
:P
Muz_ is going to kill his liver on Saturday
FauxFaux
Save yourself for the four-days next weekend. :p
Muz_
5 day fir me
I've booked a day off work :P
FauxFaux
Cheat!
Muz_
:D
FauxFaux
I was goihng to train-race you home on thursday evening, too.
Muz_
Not going home on Thursday, staying strictly in London
Got parties and gigs to go to
FauxFaux
Heh, I have people to see.
Muz_
Ponies != people
kwijibo
FauxFaux: pretty players?
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JTole
hey all
I have a database question, is there anyone in here who knows anything alot about it?
ok, well I will ask anyways, when I look up mellon collie and the infinite sadness on musicbrainz. I get a proper ASIN,
however I looked up this album in the database and there was no asin listed for either of the double discs
so I pulled up the asin listed on the musicbrainz page on the albummeta table in the database and linked that id back to the album table as is described in the wiki, and it comes back as Mellon Jolly and the infinite madness
which I looked over google and I couldn't find that album, I see mention of it, I see a story about the pumpkins named that and last.fm has a reference to it but with the proper album name, mellon collie and the infinite sadness
but I assume they musicbrainz technology
my question is how come when I look up the proper album name on musicbrainz I get the proper asin and when I look up the wrong album name I don't get an asin but looking at the database the asin is signed to the wrong album name and nothing to the right album name
I don't understand how the website knows where the asin is in fact
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BrianG
asins used to be detected by a bot
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JTole
I am not sure I follow you there
I just also found the table amazon_album_asins also has this pointed to the wrong album name
I don't think there is a bot that automatically detects the asin in the musicbrainz page, is there?
they still have the right asin on the right album on their page, and from what I have seen so far they get mostly everything from the database, this is the only album I have found so far with the wrong info in the database and the right info in the browser
BrianG
actually cover art was detected by a bot
and linked to the releases
and it had nothing to do with asin
JTole
ok
asin is what I am asking about but I just made a text dump of the entire database and am now doing a grep for that asin
hmm, just found the asin listed in a third place that is new to me, I will find out where in a moment here but it's a double cd, so... well, lets see
BrianG
its a bootleg, it wont have an asin
JTole
what won't have an asin?
BrianG
Mellon Jolly
JTole
oh but it does
BrianG
you can buy the bootleg on amazon?
JTole
no
it has the official albums asin, but the official album doesn't have it's own
but I still am not sure how the website worked to get the proper asin on the proper album and no asin on the bootleg when it was backwards in the database
BrianG
the website updated after i changed it
it had the Mellon COlly cover before
JTole
but it had the correct asin before I posted in this room, no?
BrianG
it had no asin on the website, jsut cover art
and it can't have an asin because it's a bootleg not sold on amazon
JTole
so if I updated my database, the two albums discs would have a proper asin?
right, I knew the asin I had on the bootleg was for the official disc, but it just wasn't showing up in the official disc