the best way to deal with recent edits you messed up is almost always to cancel them :)
2014-07-23 20456, 2014
n1md4
For compilations do I add that to various artists, and then credit the artists in the track listing?
2014-07-23 20450, 2014
peaveyman joined the channel
2014-07-23 20459, 2014
chungy
If it's that kind of compilation, yeah. Featured artists can get listed independently, or if just one track or two has a different credit, you can still attribute the album as a whole to the main artists. It really depends :P
2014-07-23 20408, 2014
n1md4
hmm it's an album called chillout groove, with about 12 tracks, but only 3 or 4 different artists.
2014-07-23 20419, 2014
derwin
that's VA
2014-07-23 20423, 2014
derwin
10000%
2014-07-23 20437, 2014
n1md4
great :)
2014-07-23 20448, 2014
jesus2099
bitmap: the ones i used a lot are fast cancel and edit recording comments :) but for that last one i did 2 tweaks that i would have liked to PR you — i lost them but they were simple enough i could redo if you put on github
Wonder if the editor should have prevented the original edit?
2014-07-23 20402, 2014
Freso
n1md4: A lot of people here love when people add "obscure stuff". The more obscure, the better. :)
2014-07-23 20411, 2014
chungy
Mineo: I looked at the history for Happy Holidays 2013 by Dream Theater, I was somewhat amused to see you did a lot to it after I added it :P
2014-07-23 20420, 2014
chungy
then months later, you added MMMMMM and I did stuff to that :D
2014-07-23 20410, 2014
Mineo
well, at least we're even now :)
2014-07-23 20417, 2014
n1md4
Freso: I'll do my best.
2014-07-23 20408, 2014
Nyanko-sensei joined the channel
2014-07-23 20422, 2014
Freso
n1md4: :)
2014-07-23 20428, 2014
Freso
n1md4: Welcome to #mb anyway! :)
2014-07-23 20446, 2014
Freso
Please do stick around and ask whatever pops up.
2014-07-23 20420, 2014
n1md4
greate thanks.
2014-07-23 20425, 2014
n1md4
Found a same bundle more
2014-07-23 20459, 2014
n1md4
small*
2014-07-23 20440, 2014
Freso
:)
2014-07-23 20406, 2014
n1md4
I love doing all these edits, spent many an evening on various metadata sites, scanner, editing, searching ... all in the name of getting decent XBMC scraper results ;)
2014-07-23 20422, 2014
Freso
Heh.
2014-07-23 20443, 2014
Freso
I wish XBMC would start storing artists by their MBID instead of by name.
2014-07-23 20415, 2014
Freso
One artist can go by several names, and one name can "belong" to several artists. Not to mention when something is by "Artist A & Artist B" etc.
2014-07-23 20424, 2014
derwin
19:24 < Freso> I wish XBMC would start storing artists by their MBID instead of by name.
2014-07-23 20434, 2014
derwin
+9001, if I had someone to pay to do that change I would
2014-07-23 20459, 2014
Freso
Yeah. That's like my main issue with XBMC at the moment.
2014-07-23 20414, 2014
derwin has actually patched xbmc in the past, heh
2014-07-23 20454, 2014
n1md4
yes, there I have a number of issues when scraping, and think an unambigious UID would be perfect! 100% success everytime; providing the metadata exists.
2014-07-23 20422, 2014
Freso
derwin: :)
2014-07-23 20446, 2014
Freso
I started writing an XBMC plugin once to sync up ratings between XBMC and ones MB profile, but I never got very far with it.
2014-07-23 20416, 2014
Freso
Was it warp who's been asking for something like this? I don't know. I still want to do it, but I only rarely find myself in a coding mood anymore.
2014-07-23 20435, 2014
Freso
n1md4: "providing the metadata exists" - yeah, we can't guarantee that every artist will be there (esp. these days will all the self-releases online etc.), so such a system would have to fall back on something else.
2014-07-23 20458, 2014
Freso
But MB does have a pretty good coverage of a large chunk of music, including non-"mainstream" stuff.
2014-07-23 20434, 2014
n1md4
There's the universal album / artist scaper that uses MBs API. I'm not 100% sure, it might even support MBID, it's more likely users don't have their collections tagged correctly, and to avoid the "your scraper is crap" sort comments, I guess it uses names too.
2014-07-23 20441, 2014
Freso
(And getting more applications to use it more, would give more incentive to more people to add more data, leading to even better coverage, etc.)
2014-07-23 20455, 2014
n1md4
I'll have to check. The dev who wrote that plugin is called Olympia (iirc)
2014-07-23 20414, 2014
n1md4
So pleased these are all going in! Didn't like the idea of manually adding them all ... even if I am now, but this feels worthy!
2014-07-23 20426, 2014
Freso
n1md4: Yep. My main issue with that is the apparently most XBMC dev types seem to think that the data (entry) model behind TheTVdb (and thus, TheAudioDB) is state-of-the-art, meaning they'd probably prefer to just switch to TheAudioDB completely if they could.
2014-07-23 20448, 2014
Freso
Which irks me to no end. :p
2014-07-23 20445, 2014
n1md4
hah
2014-07-23 20451, 2014
n1md4
I'm hybrid
2014-07-23 20401, 2014
n1md4
mb seems far more technically correct
2014-07-23 20422, 2014
n1md4
tvdb seems to have dictators running it
2014-07-23 20429, 2014
n1md4
moviedb seems reasonable
2014-07-23 20455, 2014
derwin
movies are way easier to model than tv shows
2014-07-23 20458, 2014
Freso
Yeah. I like MovieDB. I probably like MovieDB more than TV or AudioDB combined. :p
2014-07-23 20407, 2014
derwin
and yes, you get terrible impression of thetvdb
2014-07-23 20414, 2014
n1md4
audiodb uses mb? audiodb being a bit more about the reviews and moods, styles etc ... could be wrong.
2014-07-23 20419, 2014
Freso
But MovieDB also seems like it has a more flexible data structure.
2014-07-23 20423, 2014
derwin
from the way they appear to arrive at broken consensus
2014-07-23 20434, 2014
Freso
You can add a lot of data about movies that you can't about e.g. TV shows on TVdb.
2014-07-23 20449, 2014
n1md4
moviedb does tv now too, so there should be a gradual shift
2014-07-23 20429, 2014
Freso
n1md4: Yeah. And AudioDB also does cover art, which is relatively new for MusicBrainz. However, MB currently has more releases with cover art than AudioDB has releases in all.
2014-07-23 20446, 2014
Freso
n1md4: And CritiqueBrainz will be the "review" site pendant for MB.
