#musicbrainz

http://musicbrainz.org/edit/34293830 man, this is always the worst kind of edit to have to make :(

at age 20? that's not how this is supposed to work. :-(

to whoever it was linking to imgur http://imgur.com/gallery/PbEfqq1 for linking

it's 3 AM you motherfucker!!!

:<

:

:P

it was freso

RAAARRGGG

no it's not

that's crazy. it's still light out.

silly caller, you live on the wrong side of the world

(also this is norway, the sun is up in an hour or two it wil be twilight already)

hmm. I wonder if we can get piapro.jp available as a lyrics site

it's a site where vocaloid producers often upload their backing tracks and lyrics explicitly so people can make covers of their songs

kepstin: Make a STYLE ticket?

Do you ever listen to a song from your childhood only to find it sounds nothing like you remember it?

sometimes, but once one made me cry

which one?

the earliest thing I remember watching on TV

looks like an anime

let's see if I can dredge up the original Japanese name

I might have more success finding episodes that way. I tried a few years ago to get some French one but could not find anything

ones*

https://blog.archive.org/2015/05/27/experiment-... I'm surprised it's only 148 GB

I'm getting read timeouts again

hibiscuskazenek1: yeah, I get search errors in beta too - probably index building stuff and should be temporary but I've asked in case

search seems back, is stuff better for you too?

I'm still getting errors, lemme try again

nope, still not working

(I'm running beta in the tab I'm using)

http://coverlib.com/stats/ they manage to have a lot more kb per image, but I'm not surprised here (very high quality usually)

2 TB of cover art, still quite manageable for a single user

I don't think I have that much HD space

these days drives <2TB are boring to me :)

pankkake: do you know what is the legal status of those cover arts? Could they be uploaded to MB/Archive.org?

the coverlib ones? I don't think they have a better (or any) legal status

apparently incorportated in Germany

pankkake: somebody should get in contact. For example, the very latest cover uploaded to coverlib is a 2000x2000px scan + scans of the booklet. The cover for the same release in MB is a 1000x1000px scan with no booklet images

I use coverlib to find artwork, but I don't really see how more could be done

because they do not really identify individual releases, you have to actually look at the cover art details

perhaps could be in guide for finding good images, next to "don't use google images" ;)

pankkake: I was thinking of a report. There was a report that "guessed" relations between a wikipedia page and a release. You had to check manually, but if it was correct it would create the relation for you in two clicks. Something similar could be done here. You get a list of guesses, if you find an exact match you click somewhere and the cover art edit page is prefilled with the covers found on coverlib

ah, yes, that could work

gioele: remember that needs to be done without the covers ever touching MB servers

(if that's doable though, it might be interesting)

I guess the covers could be loaded by the client from the appropriate page at coverlib... If its OK for the metadata to be processed, I guess that should be enough to suggest cover art for a release, shouldn't it?

MB Servers don't have anything to compare the coverart to anyway, so processing them would not be necessary

but thats a person talking who knows nothing about MB infrastructure and should keep quiet on that matter

I would suspect that we wouldn't want to add such a thing to MB directly but it could work as an external tool

My general opinion though is that these relations would be dangerously easy to get wrong

(although if the other site gave specific permission then it might work? dunno)

but thats probably true for a lot more

yes, I guess the right people should get in touch and talk about if something like that would be ok and possible

a greasemonkey script like those that exist for bandcamp or discogs would be a nice way to implementi it

yep

Yeah, a script would definitely be fine - it would still have to download the images first though since right now we don't have any code to get the images from a URL

(it works in Chrome in Windows for some reason because of how it deals with pasting URLs in the "open file" dialog, but it's not an intentional feature)

There's a ticket for that, but given the focus is in community things at the moment I doubt it'll be done soon unless a volunteer does it

(also I dunno if it would need changes on the IA side to work, probably would...)

(warning: contains classical)

is that bad?

Some people prefer to avoid it :-)

The first cover cracks me up. At one point, I think I suggested that you could detect genre by checking "does the cover have a boring pastoral scene?"

I can certainly guess genre by most covers

that would be a hilarious side project

http://www.guessthatalbum.com/ this is guessing artist and title, but I did pretty good on it

Now I want to release classical with metal covers.

CallerNo6: that was pretty cool :)

Leftmost: why not power metal with old landscape paintings instead! :p

Because I don't like power metal. :-P

yet

Power metal is not for the better.

(well, ther est of you do anyway)

Melodeath is obviously where it's at.

Well, it would improve a bit with the classical covers!

Maybe they could also dress in fancy suits

Guess playing it with acoustic instruments would be going a bit too far

John zorn can do it, why can't everybody?

how do i edit all the records in a release at the same time?

wvdp, do you mean all the *recordings* on one release? or all the releases in one *release-group*?