#musicbrainz

biggest problem is that all the discs are hilariously scratched though :(

Yeah, that's a problem with some artists.

Wizzcat: even then, havng access tot he cd case is useful

UPC codes! :D

It's perfectly legal and I'm sure they can't frown at you for it

frown they will.

sue, maybe not.

Librarians aer geeks, Brainzers are dataporn nerds

Tehy go hand in hand

dataporn nerds.

that could be a good tagline for a t-shirt.

I think it's a better way of saying someone's anal retentive over data

yep.

We should probably try and infiltrate the libraries worldwide.

pfft. I don't think I'd want to listen to most of the music they have at the library

me answer questions? I clearly have no answers ;-)

Muzzz_: oh for sure, and disc ids :)

which is better, deleting a dupe release with a bucketload of mangled puids, or merging it and deleting the offending puids?

merge and delete. It may still have good PUIDs

ack, is there any way to get back removed disc ids beyond manually readding it?

some jokers in the past thought it a good idea to remove a perfectly good disc id instead of finding out where it actually originated from

well, we don't have a rollback function, so you'd have to readd it

but if you know it's good, how come you can't readd it?

I can hear Radiohead from my room

They're playing live in the park down the road

And I can hear the crowd singing along too

I don't have the disc nikki, I'm just looking at discogs so I'm 99% sure I know which release it should've been added to

We should have some sort of "Heyall" feature in the system so that we could notify people about changes we're about to make.

I often see things that probably should be fixed but I have no exact information to do that. Just making a remove edit or something like that is a pretty ugly way to raise attention.

ruaok: I'm pushing said data off of the aforementioned truck right now

That's the case with disc ids, although with them it's likely to come back if it's correct.

I'll scp it to my private server and drop you a link when it's done :)

:-)

search nerdvana is elusive!

are trivial edits regarded as, well, trivial? will voters get pissed off?

Some trivial edits don't require votes

So, what're you editing?

cover art. at the moment the ASIN points to an image with an import sticker. i wanna change that

Ah

i tried just editing the ASIN from .com to .co.jp but that didn't work. the system just kept the .com.

guess i'll remove the ASIN and re-add

REmove the AR and readd it, I can approve it so it doesn't need voting heh

which album is it?

k, sec

you can't edit urls from the edit relationship page by the way

it seems like you can but it won't work

you have to click the 'info' link and click 'edit url' from there

and pray that it works

you can't approve remove urls though, muz

Ah no, not that, but the adding I can

the image gets updated immediately though, so approving wouldn't really do anything

thanks :)

Muahua, db query done :D

Oh cocks, didn't mean to open that 2gig file in vim

And... http://freso.dk/ has been launched!

ojnkpjg: I just realized that you're the author of oidentd, I've used it for years, thank you for making it :)

ruaok: about?

Ah, you are

Also, is the MB planet only for SoC stuff, or can I have freso.dk added once I have a MusicBrainz tag?

That'd be one to ask FauxFaux

you're just trying to slut some web hits. :-)

ruaok: Well, of course. :)

ruaok: But I will most likely end up writing about MusicBrainz sooner or later, so might as well have my word(s) aggregated and spread out.

but mostly i do. and i need sleep, so i'm off :)

sleep well

I just liked the bob dylan picture. :)

I had to look up the UUID to identify the chap :-)

lol

natta warp

i liked the article too, you should read it instead of just looking at pictures :P

FauxFaux: Ping?

I think we may need a big(ger) notice on the editing pages that says *Your changes may not appear immediately. Most changes require a voting period before they will be visible.*

I keep seeing duplicate and triplicate edits where new editors try the same edit over and over. I try to be nice and warn them that their edits will fail when I can, but it gets old :)

sure they're not just accidental?

like clicking enter twice

Maybe sometimes

anyone who can see why if($mbid =~ m/([a-z0-9]8)-([a-z0-9]4)-([a-z0-9]4)-([a-z0-9]4)-([a-z0-9]12)/) would not evaluate to true when $mbid contains e.g. 010594c5-41b5-4877-bbc7-f995b6406986

(Perl)

lol

I just looked up the regexp. like yesterday.

nikki: The ones I'm looking at tend to have about 3 minutes in between dupes, which to me suggests an editor noticing that their changes didn't "stick" and trying it again.

[a-z0-9]{8}[:-][a-z0-9]{4}[:-][a-z0-9]{4}[:-][a-z0-9]{4}[:-][a-z0-9]{12}

ah

ohh

hmm do I have to use [:-]?

shouldnt - be fine too?

no.

the most important is that the quantities need to be in {}

([a-z0-9]8

vs

mikemorr: I get the feeling that the colour doesn't help much these days, that yellow is practically invisible on all the monitors I've used in the last few years :/

(a-z0-9]{8})

er

([a-z0-9]{8})

ah I see. thank you

nikki: cool. how's that look with the purple and orange? :)

yup, that regex works fine

\ø/

Using Wikipedia as an example, they have all kinds of big bold warnings when you're editing a page. I'm not in the mood to start an RFC about it right now, but I wonder if anyone else thinks such a notice on the edit screen would help?

Or should I stop trying to save the noobs from themselves?

:)

for us non-noobs

Wizzcat: I like that idea

mikemorr: brilliant :D

nikki: ?

the colours?

yes

B)

I also have a pinkish-purple table-row-hover highlight

happy 7 goes straight to the right page now.

I'm working on one leetle tweak more...

oh even shoshkadoozki works!

\ø/

nikki: ping!

try it now.

musume is the worst one. 5th hit.

still, not bad.