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I think I need some help

I'm trying to merge a bunch of recordings but so many recordings have matching AcoustIDs (and two have the same ISRC) but their times are all over the placae

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wat do?

The reason I want to merge these is there are a bunch of mashups that I want to be credited together

CallerNo6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYlQwMIYUo

nice

http://musicbrainz.org/edit/25901528 <--- Can I haz some votes, please?

CallerNo6: thanks :)

I need a shower, but I have to finish cleaning up some labels

wat do?

How i can attach a pdf book (from downloaded archive) to a release ? That's a 138-pages pdf booklet from a digital release, with links to websites (so conversion to images isn't that great).

afaik, the pdf document isn't available online (just in the archive)

I don't know if we support PDFs

CAA doesn't

so you're SOL

I could upload the document somewhere and put a link to in Annotation

true

but that would be dangerous

in this case the booklet is very useful since it is a compilation of many small and unknown bands, the pdf has infos about them

true

I have a release with 2 digital booklets included

many do nowaday

I haven't bothered to upload them anywhere or link to them since they're both locked

and I fear for my life

zas: you could also vote for http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-4116 :P

Voted

Would locked PDFs be uploadable?

voted, it is a must

nikki: did you know each ticket number from memory ? ;)

I've wondered that too

it is incredible as ticket number always appear, that's almost magical, thanks nikki ;)

I imagine the IA would accept them, not sure how well they'd work though

and no, I don't, I just know what to search for XD

I do worry extensively about the CAA

especially after reading through Wikipedia's image policies

nikki: I'm having issues uploading cover art

what sort of issues?

it'll say it was a success and then when I click on the image it'll give me a 404 error

as if the image never went through but the edit did

this is my second attempt

it looks like it's just being laggy on the IA's side

try opening the image link directly

then you'll see what I mena

mean*

o_O

hi again

hi

I lost the connection for some reason

as I was about to say: yes, the files haven't made it to the right place yet, so it's a 404

this is not good

the IA is largely a big mystery and I may be completely wrong, but as I understand it, files first get uploaded to an incoming area, then they're moved to the correct place, and sometimes there's a delay between files arriving in the incoming area and being moved to the correct place

and if they don't get filed in time it ruins the edit?

the edit won't be affected by it, it just won't be displayed

so effectively it's a wasted effort

er?

No, effectively it'll take a while to appear

Oh, HibiscusKazeneko: IIRC you have an RFC ready for RFV since a while ago, when you have some time feel free to send that ;)

sure

RFV sent

now to figure out how to get Picard's CD lookup to work

it's giving me an error message saying "Cannot open /dev/disk2"

On OSX? Try rdisk2

same error message

at least it recognizes that the drive is there

if /dev/rdisk2 doesn't work, then it's probably changed numbers

that doesn't work either

I tried /rdisk3 and /rdisk4 and it still didn't work

even /disk0s2 doesn't work

the optical drive is showing up as /dev/disk1 in Terminal, yet I typed that in Picard and it still can't open anything

is this some kind of security feature?

does /dev/rdisk1 work?

then it's /dev/rdisk1

yep, that worked

HibiscusKazeneko: which version of Picard ?

1.2

especially concerning MacOSX

nikki: true, we have no "latest" build for osx :(

who did 1.2 packages for macosx ? luks?

bitmap, I believe

bitmap: ping ;)

it would be ideal to have some os x machine always online and create something like the windows daily builds

but I just can't convince myself to buy and run a mac mini just for this purpose

I can run those on my home laptop >.>

for anybody interested to make a build: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Bitmap/Buildin...

it's an old macbook with ML installed on it

oh. I was regularly building it while I was using OSX to manage metadata. now I'm using my gaming rig for that, which is windows

that being said, I need to write the wiki entries before sending a RFV for my RFC

I'd RFV only for mini-album for now

(since there seems to be a fair bit of opposition for release-level maxi-single)

should I send one more RFC, separately?

maxi singles won't go anywhere, while CDs still get released

and japan doesn't really like the term EP

Sorry, release-group level

The issue is we have nowhere to set it where it really fits

Because release group level is messy because (at least outside Japan) maxi-singles and normal singles of the same song are often produced

well, I can live with maxis being called singles

(and they should share an RG)

Mini-album does seem like a much more RG-levelish thing, so that should be fine to RFV I think :)

europe calls them mini-LPs or something, IIRC

mini-albums, that is

anyway, I'll write the wiki entry, send it to the RFC discussion and then send an RFV for mini-albums first, then maxi-singles later

maxis could be a sub-group, I think

considering the non-asian releases

Well, it could maybe, but we don't have code for that :)

So it's much less trivial

oh

roger that. *proceeds writing the wiki entry*