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      • navap
        Web based instant audio conference. I was very impressed with the quality (YMMV depending on hardware). http://voicechatapi.com/
      • I wonder what it would be like to run a weekly dev chat via voice
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      • CatCat
        [01:56] reosarevokOn CD, I have no idea how to deal with it
      • just got an idea
      • why not add a separate "medium" to the release with the video racks?
      • tecnically it's in a differnt thing on the cd
      • well i dunno. it's called
      • [01:56] reosarevokSome people add a second "digital media" medium
      • lol didn't read
      • so yea. a second medium :D
      • CatCat isn't affected by no superb owl, fosd em on the other hand...
      • Freso
        kloeri|fosdem: Yo!
      • kloeri|fosdem: Go find Rob and the other MB guys that are at FOSDEM and talk to them! :p
      • CatCat
        \o/
      • Freso
        kloeri|fosdem: (And invite Rob to come speak at OpenSource Days... O;))
      • CatCat
        at first i read that as a sad ;O face and not a winking angle face
      • as a reversed sad O; face
      • Freso
        I always do smileys left-to-right. Except for D:... but it's hard to make a mirrored D to come after the colon.
      • kloeri|fosdem
        Freso: any idea where to find them? :)
      • Freso: I don't have anything to do with OSD anymore unfortunately
      • CatCat
        Freso: yea, like most people, I, unlike most people am weird, i just recently realised I'd sorted my cd's right-to-left instead of the other way around
      • reosarevok
        kloeri|fosdem: look for the big guy with the weird colourful hair
      • CatCat
        XD
      • kloeri|fosdem
        there's 5000+ people across a largish area - I'm sure a few people fit that description :)
      • CatCat
        you haven't seen rob srsly
      • kloeri|fosdem
        probably not
      • more seriously, is there any musicbrainz talks or anything at FOSDEM?
      • CatCat
        one of the first hits on google images http://wmf.editthispage.com/pictures/viewer$2906
      • thats the kind you're looking for
      • kloeri|fosdem
        hah
      • CatCat
        jeg vet ikke hvad slags han har nå
      • kloeri|fosdem
        I'll see if I can run into him
      • should be able recognise him at least :)
      • Freso
        kloeri|fosdem: You should be, yeah. ;) Who's else there? ocharles, and... ?
      • warp perhaps?
      • reosarevok
        Yep
      • kloeri|fosdem
        would be nice meeting those people :)
      • simukis_
        All links in editor should really be target="_blank"
      • usability +115%
      • reosarevok
        IIRC some people were against it for some reason I fail to understand
      • simukis_
        I see why one would not use it anywhere else in MB, but in editor that’s more or less critical.
      • simukis_ just lost all his data by clicking a link.
      • reosarevok
        Doesn't just going back work?
      • Anyway, yeah, I asked for the release editor to do the same the relationship editor does at least (confirm you want to navigate away)
      • simukis_
        nope. Tracklist goes empty.
      • although all data entered before tracklist is perserved.
      • reosarevok
        Let's see how the new editor deals with that, since it'll be a one-load-only JS thingy
      • (that should be ready in a couple weeks I think)
      • Freso
        reosarevok: Oh? I made a patch a while ago fixing a small bunch of links to use the _blank target.
      • I didn't get any opposition of it.
      • reosarevok shrugs
      • I can't remember which of the edit pages it was for though.
      • And no going back doesn't work in most cases where the form elements are dependent on JavaScript.
      • *And no,
      • simukis_
        Freso: Yeah, In my case entering artist data and (in credits) going to artist page will forget any tracklist data I've entered so far.
      • simukis_ has hard time getting used to this new touchpad.
      • Freso
        simukis_: File a ticket and/or go fix it and make a pull request.
      • I partly linked that ticket so you could go and look at how I went about fixing the link(s).
      • simukis_
        Freso: that'd be a wasted effort if the new editor comes out several weeks later.
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      • TrigonaMinima
        Hello
      • anyone?
      • simukis_
        TrigonaMinima: If you have a question, just ask.
      • TrigonaMinima
        I want to edit the database via a python script, but "How to contribute" section does not show anything like that.
      • is there any way?
      • reosarevok
        Well, all editing needs to go through the site right now
      • So, not really, unless you write/modify a python bot (there is one somewhere in github)
      • TrigonaMinima
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      • reosarevok
        No, that's not a bot
      • That's for querying the web service
      • What would you want to mass-edit anyway?
      • Freso
      • TrigonaMinima
        I am from India and as I saw there weren't many matches found on picard for hindi songs. So I wanted to fetch songs data from the sites from where I can download the songs and update the database.
      • Fetching part is almost over.
      • simukis_
        Ok, a question. Let's take this release http://musicbrainz.org/release/97a99ab0-816f-4d.... On back cover `label #` is clearly written as `YSE 017` (just above the barcode). DiscoGS uses strange `YSE *-(D)CD`-like # for volumes I've seen util now, while yet elsewhere it is yet again different permutation of YSE, 017 and random letters. Would it be sensible to simply use (and change already entered releases) to use `YSE xxx` or `YSE-xx
      • reosarevok
        TrigonaMinima: if you're going to add releases, I'd suggest not doing it fully automated. Either write an importer (you can seed the release editor, see http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/Release_...) and make a last check by hand before entering, or at least add only a few dozen per day and review that they look good
      • Having more data is certainly good, mind, but we'd just love to ensure it looks fine :)
      • simukis_: that specific one at least seems to clearly be without -CD
      • Maybe the medium has -CD written on it?
      • If not, no idea where it came from
      • simukis_
        Both of mediums have.
      • But then, again, it's the release label #, not medium.
      • reosarevok
        Well sure, but anywhere on the release that's still a catno
      • simukis_
        s/mediums/media
      • reosarevok
        I don't really have a particularly useful opinion here - I'd be fine with standardising to only one of them, but no idea which one really
      • Someone who does edit this kind of music would be more helpful :)
      • TrigonaMinima
        Is there any particular reason for not having an API ?
      • reosarevok
        For editing?
      • One is that someone would have to write it
      • The other is that (at least until recently) the community didn't particularly trust mass-editing anyway
      • I'm not sure whether that has changed
      • But mostly, really, is that, that we're tiny and nobody has written it
      • (it's in the plans, eventually)
      • TrigonaMinima
        Yes for editing. And if there's a doubt for correctness of the editings (for autoediting on a mass level) then it can always be limited to a few number.
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      • CatCat
        \o/ for more non-western centric editors
      • TrigonaMinima
        Can this be done as a GSoC Project ? I mean is making an API big enough for a proj ?
      • reosarevok
        I imagine it would be big enough, yes - I don't know if it would fit for this year because I don't remember what other changes we were supposed to make before it
      • But you can certainly suggest it
      • TrigonaMinima
        Is there any feature list or bug list ?
      • Freso
        TrigonaMinima: For mass editing/data importing/digesting, the current goal is to use Geordi. I'm not sure if that's applicable for wherever you're importing your data from though.
      • TrigonaMinima: However, mass-adding of data is generally untrusted, since it has a bad history of adding... less than pristine data.
      • You will usually need a set of human eyes on all added releases to ensure the style guidelines are being adhered to. ( https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style )
      • E.g., capitalisation for titles in Latin script, formatting of titles, proper use of attributes, etc.
      • Thus, an importer, as reosarevok suggested, is far preferred, though a bot that adds a few releases that can then be looked over before making a new batch I guess could also work.
      • This is unlikely to change with an API, though an API would enable better/custom importers (e.g., instead of just feeding the release editor) as well as client-side editing, such as queing up edits while offline and then sending them off when reestablishing a connection.
      • But more or less blindly mass-adding data will probably never be favoured by the community.
      • TrigonaMinima
        Yeah, I am asking for that. I mean instead of needing human hands to add more data, they can be used in checking them. And i think this will make it easier and quicker only (provided the API or bot adds a few releases only ).
      • And having an API will bring more people in editing , I guess.
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      • simukis_
        The same thing could be achieved by letting people simply provide an URI to other metadata website and MB pulling down + parsing all the data before editing process.
      • reosarevok
        Sadly no
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      • TrigonaMinima
        I am sorry, but I am not following...
      • simukis_
        reosarevok: in what way iTunes are capable of enforcing their ToS in this aspect?
      • reosarevok
        Well, they're certainly able to block us from their affiliate program
      • They'll probably not go and sue us for it or anything (but if they did we'd have no money to fight back and would be forced to shut down, which means it probably won't happen anyway :p)
      • simukis_
        oh yeah, I forgot MB is in US…
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      • reosarevok
        Indeed :(