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anyone knows how to retrieve files from archive.org?

need the http://bally-official.com/m/discography-m.html file, but it says it's not archived...

while the listing says it does

d4rkie, here's your problem: https://web.archive.org/web/20110910200149/http...

er, wait, no that's ok

it's allowing ia_archiver i think

dunno why they're not showing up, but it's hard to say exactly why that could happen :/

sigh. will have to scavenge for info

Is there any ritual or procedure to follow when setting cover art?

wtf https://musicbrainz.org/edit/30739200

hibiscuskazenek1: I don't know what you mean.

when askig like that you have to be more specific about *what* makes you think it' "photoshop"

also not to assume the editor in the edit did it purposfully. ie. say "tdid you know this exists as a photoshop version also? I think this migh be a photoshopped version because: [reason]" and then go on to say (politely) that we usually don't want photoshopped covers

but again, I don't see what's "photoshop" about thaat cover.. is it the right link?

(I mean clearly it's been edited, blue and made with glowy eyes. but it's from 198, i doubth they had much "photoshop" back then, so it's probably printing raster efects as they did before)

CatQuest++

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hibiscuskazeneko: aha! but then you should mention this to "MediaCenter" as they might not be aware of it

it's an easy mistake to make (as I just demonstrated :P)

I would but he/she hasn't shown up since that batch of edits went through

hibiscuskazeneko: i have just made a script to find back all MBS-8322 edits !

(they are little actually, not many)

Oh, nice! Link plz

I’m just now looking for the starting date of my search… pankkake noticed this in March but maybe this problem came when the date editing was retored on URL edit pages… just to say that you can just rely on me for fixing them

well it’s useless script apart from this bug search so…

hibiscuskazeneko: it’s running, I set 2014-04-30 as starting date for now…

i have to quit, tabs keep opening in front of IRC tab :)

textual is free today. I'm giving it another shot.

I have a release with the same front cover (and most of the same artwork) as http://www.discogs.com/Derek-And-The-Dominos-La... and I'm unsure how to title it.

It should go in the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs release group, I'd think, but I'm tempted to title it "The Layla Sessions".

Possibly "The Layla Sessions: 20th Anniversary Edition".

Leftmost: That sounds like what I'd do (alternatively I'd use the original title with the disambiguation "20th Anniversary edition")

It's kind of a tough call, I think, because the cover has "The Layla Sessions" more prominent than the original title, but the spine gives the original title.

Yeah, these reissued releases annoy me. Especially when there are series or edition names involved.

Does scratching get credited as turntables?

Yes

There was some discussion about that on the old instrument request wiki page

aw man don't even.. that old instrument request thing.. man that thing

but yes. afaik scratching (as long as it's thek ind with DJ's NOt the kind you'd do with e.g. a fork on a calabash or whatever) is "tunrtables"

*turntables

but it comes down to the issue with representing an instrument, and then representing that instrument being "played" unconventionally. e.g. a piano with it's back off and someone going all harpo on it's string

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how to represent this with instrument credits? does it geta new instrument entity for it' alternate way?

an acoutsic guitar can also be a percusion instrument

this is confusing stuff

my instinch is to first and formost represent the instrumnet in it's base with it's entity

havig a "modified" atribute would probably be a very good idea

"harpo played *modified* Piano on "piano strings" etc.

Pretty much the only attributable way I know to play a turntable is to scratch a record on it

Otherwise it wouldn't be worth noting

oh there's probably lots of ways. plaing it bakcwards. using it as a teremin conductor? :P

IIRC records can't be played backwards (can they? my mom said they couldn't)

That theremin thing is a bit of a stretch

aahh.. hah

they can.

trust me on this

I guess if you managed to reverse the motor direction...

it would probably also do havok wit he actual record/needle/pickup, but yes

CatQuest: Well, there are quite a few pieces for piano that explicitly ask for things like that :)

(I've seen one performed live, was pretty cool)