#musicbrainz

need any help?

I'm reverting his Aero/Run mods. Pick a band mix, he's done a few.

I'm revertign this queen noncence

i think he should have at the very least turned automod off

yes!

it should be here: www.theblight.net/misc/fandango.jpg

and I worked *SO* hard to remove al that crap

mmm, looking at about 33 Run&Aero's to revert back.

a rollback feature would be nice, and very easy to implement, i'm sure :)

Howdy chaps.

Any interesting discussions in here today? ;)

just talking about the weather

it's dark here!

and streetlighty...

are you in framingham, ma, rod?

yeah

I can see the moon!

I work on The Mountain.

earlier it looked huge

oh, i'm in amherst

but i'm from medford originally

wow, I was just in framingham

i'll be around there this weekend

what a small world.

hehe.

indeed

it was my first visit to MA

nice

i like cambridge and the cambridge side of somerville a lot

davis, porter, central, harvard

Framinham's a bit dodgy -- I live in Somerville.

where in somerville

near union square. round the corner from city hall.

my mother lives about 10 minutes from there

5 with no traffic

which is never the case

heh.

he's on main st. in medford

the advantage of living in somerville, but working in framingham is that I get to watch the parkinglot going the other way down the pike

about a mile from winter hill

er, she.

yeah, that's nasty

if i am going west on the pike in the morning, it's at 5 am

oh, well, i guess you're going west

it's worse the other way

but it's no fun either

are any of inhouseuk, hairmetalwotsit or mo around?

probably? maybe?

mo should be

i just saw that we've entered the point of "mod wars" and wanted to see if we could call a truce before this gets totally fucking ridiculous.

automod wars, even.

i think all of the original mods should have been put up for a vote instead of automodded through

but too late for that now

can automods choose to put their mods to the vote?

yep, you can turn automod off in user preferences

didn't know that. makes sense.

(especially since my automod election was cancelled, even though I was winning!)

11-9 admittedly ;)

there was a 5-4 one

it passe

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well yeah, thems the rules.

more abstensions than yes/no votes

automod rules say that a majority after proposer+seconders.

yes

it's just become tradition to cancel them when it looks close.

http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid... <-- Run-D.M.C. & Aerosmith ... "This artist has no albums."

Much better.

rodbegbie: I'm around, but I was eating

33 entries fixed.

HMA: Would you consider not being a stroppy child for a moment?

Perhaps keep your toys in the pram for 30 seconds?

Watch your mouth, kid.

The topic has been hashed out for months on the mailing list dedicated to style issues.

The issues, pro & con, have been thought through.

to be fair, the deluge of email made a lot of people stop reading

By <1% of moderators, hidden amongst a pile of "waah, I want a trumpet AR"-type posts that ran off people who actually preferred spending time actually modding.

Perhaps, and I'm just throwing this out here, the change has been made for a reason.

rodbegbie: what was the reason?

That it improves the quality of the data, and will make it easier to change to a better database schema in the future.

There is no change. Such a drastic change can not under any circumstances be decided by such a tiny amount of people on an insignificant mailing list that scares off the most active moderators.

rodbegbie: by breaking the data until this is implemented?

is there a summary of the discussion somewhere?

OK, well, rather than stroppily plugging your fingers in your ears, going "lahlahlah" and changing everything back, you might like to, i don't know, actually enter into the discussion now.

Just a suggestion.

Fuchs: Breaking the data how?

soccos: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/GettingRidOfFeaturi...

rodbegbie: at the moment it is possible to identify tracks that have more than one artist (because they have .feat). How are you going to identify them now?

x (feat. y) -> x & y causing parent album to become VA

rodbegbie: well try to answer my latest mail instead of getting of topic in the thread, all the reasons are explained there

rodbegbie: you are adding more inconsitencies than there were before

there's no primary album artist for VA albums

so stuff gets hard to find

if AR were fully integrated, it might not be so bad

ojnkpjg: No-one's advocated changing albums by one artist into VA

Change one situation but not another. Yes, that makes things *so much* better.

The new SG5 specifically says that you should only do this when there is no "primary artist"

You can't see it, but that sentence included enough eye rolling to cause a headache.

primary artist where, though?

rodbegbie: that is one inconsistency that has been introduced. One style for VA albums another for single artist

what if the track has no primary artist, but the album does

then that's the primary artist.

Tom Jones is the primary artist on "Reload" the album.

rodbegbie: so then all the reverting mods _are_ correct, and it's no mod war

He's a collaborater with The Cardigans on "Burning Down The House"

fuchs. no. this track: http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=3718693

is on a VA album. There is no primary artist.

rodbegbie: what if the same track is included on a single artist album?

personally, i think it should wait until AR is integrated into the UI

just add the appropriate AR links for now, maybe?

and maybe a note

new SOAD (hyptontize) is a very good album.

I believe there's already an RFE out there (and if there isn't, there should be) that allows you to attach a "VA" album to an "main" artist.

that'd make it pretty easy to change to something better when everything's ready

All of this should wait until then. But some people have decided that jumping the gun is a good thing.

inhouseuk: Then it is "feat Artist 2", because Artist 1 is the primary artist for the album.

(UI and tagger, i should have said)

HMA: A lot of people thought this was a good thing.

rodbegbie: so this does add inconsitency, because you have the song listed in 5 version: David Bowie - Under Pressure, David Bowie - Under Pressure (feat. Queen), Queen - Under Pressure, Queen - Under Pressure (feat. David Bowie) and finally Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

?

were they people who had intimate knowledge of the DB, UI, and tagger implications?

i stopped reading after a while

too much email

Fuchs said it better than I could in his mod note: "trongersoll, read the IRC logs from today (since 4pm) you can easily find 10 people rejecting this proposal there, and not much more contributed to the discussion on the list, and not everybody who took part in the list discussion agreed with the proposal. In fact it was far from becoming a consensus there."

rodbegbie: it's how the track is listed on the album releases

HMA: Whose fault is that?

Seriously.

How would you have handled it better?

does it matter whose fault it was

if anybody's

How would you poll every person who wants to express an opinion?

And notify them?

"It was far from becoming a consensus there." Says more than a lot.

i don't like feat., really, because it doesn't tell you much

Yet without a consensus, it's just "implemented".

but dropping it now is no good, either

it makes things hard to find