Got a question on a required merge if someone's able to answer?
darwin
don't ask to ask, just ask
Gamertech
Fair, there's a label on the db which is correct, but there's also a duplicate Person of the label made in 2016. As they're incompatible, they can't be merged. What to do?
CatQuest: not as mixed, just as track artist for the mix of the whole album
Gamertech
The 'mixes' are just all the songs in the album stuck together. The albums themselves are the individual tracks
CatQuest
ugh, still :D
hm I guess. i mena it would be too much to put every artist in it? (24+ artist)
:D
reosarevok
CatQuest: yes, it would :p
CatQuest
🤷
Gamertech
The mixes are only provided on Youtube and Soundcloud as downloads. They were previously selling HD versions of the albums before they moved to just full-free with ads
reosarevok
Gamertech: sure, but there's still the question about whether they are parts of the album. If they are, we need *some* artist for them. Various Artists might be the best choice
CatQuest
well if the "labelas artist" is the credited thing *and* they actually exist already, use that
reosarevok
(well, the least awful)
Gamertech
I suppose the way the db's setup that you'd need to keep the Person to credit the mix to, even if it's added to the label's releases?
Just in Picard, the Person shows up first before the label, with almost no content
Oh reosarevok, misread what you said. The mixes aren't part of the albums. They're completely standalone
I think what's happened with Amazon, when the albums were being sold direct from 99L, they came with the album mix but it wasn't listed as being part of the album. Amazon sells what they're given so they'd list it
reosarevok
Sure, but if it was available like that on an actual release for sale then we need to include it :)
That said, Amazon says "Various Artists". Of course, they also say that for all the other tracks :D
Gamertech
So edit the albums to add the mix and remove it from the person's recordings?
reosarevok
Well, add the mix if the source has it (maybe some don't have them on Amazon)
CatQuest
but if it was never intended to be a last track mix on releases after all
how is it different than, eg, vinyl where there is a continious sound without electronic stopis like eg. cd
in terms of conceptionally released
(ignore me if i'm blathering)
Gamertech
Looks like back to 89, Amazon lists the album mix on the album. 88 doesn't
CatQuest
I guess my point is also, why are we following *amazon* of lal things?
where they only released on amazon? isn't amazon a mercant? if a physicla store bundles two cd's together it doesn't suddenly make that into a box-set for mb pruposes
does it?
Gamertech
Amazon came a fair while after the album releases. They originally sold direct
reosarevok
CatQuest: if the release exists like that, we should have it
If it also exists *without* that track, then we should also have that :)
Gamertech
Nowadays, the album's technically no longer exist, other than via Amazon. All the tracks are just provided for download individually. All mention of the albums are gone from their site
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evelyn
I still cannot get the Bandcamp importer script to work - I've tried it in tampermonkey in Safari too, and it doesn't work
it is unclear how to actually debug it
ugh, there are two on the page
only one of them works
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CatQuest
two differnt scripts?
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evelyn
ah, I think I understand now
if there is a Bandcamp page where there's only one album, it shows just that album.
if there's a Bandcamp page with multiple albums, it's slightly different
so one of them is for those single pages, the other is for the multi ones - the reason it didn't work for me was that I had installed the single album version only