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      • CallerNo6
        ... which, again, I would argue is not a good idea until there's a way to relate the two recordings.
      • kepstin-laptop
        being able to link an audio recording to a video recording that shares the same audio would be a good idea, imo
      • the criteria for the AR would basically be "if you took only the audio track, would it be the same recording under our normal guidelines"
      • which means that videos with sufficiently altered audio would not be linked, except possibly as "edits"
      • CallerNo6
        kepstin-laptop: hmm, no provisions for dialogue or silence or whatever?
      • kepstin-laptop
        our normal guidelines have provision for silence
      • dialogue is definitely a new recording, imo
      • CallerNo6
        then that's not the AR I'm looking for
      • kepstin-laptop
        well, they're both linked to the same work...
      • CallerNo6
        I'm not trying to say "audio is identical". I'm trying to say "music is same mix"
      • kepstin-laptop
        CallerNo6: then if the audio of the video is based on the audio recording, link it with the 'edit' AR
      • that says that it's the same mix, but with some additional modifications made
      • fits perfectly.
      • CallerNo6
        kepstin-laptop: that would be technically true but doesn't answer a common question that a data user would have. "Is there a video for this song I like?"
      • warp
        CallerNo6: 'a video for this song I like' will often have a different mix.
      • kepstin-laptop
        well, the general way would be via the work
      • I can't really think of any way to do "is there a video with or without edits to the audio of this mix I like?" :/
      • that I like, anyways.
      • CallerNo6
        there could be a ten or ten thousand recordings related to a work. so that still wouldn't answer a very basic question.
      • warp
        CallerNo6: of those recordings which are videos, they are 'a video for this song I like' :)
      • kepstin-laptop
        CallerNo6: would you link e.g. both the explicit and censored mix of a song to the same video recording if there was only one video that shared the same base mix?
      • CallerNo6
        warp, okay, I could reword the question in legalese if that helps :-P
      • kepstin-laptop
        terminology is very important for this sort of thing
      • warp
        CallerNo6: nah, I'm just being annoying. I'll go back to work.
      • kepstin-laptop goes through that report and fixes a few of the cases that he added before the recording video attribute was available
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      • CallerNo6
        censored vs explicit? hmm. no, I wouldn't link them.
      • or maybe would link them with a "censored" flag?
      • maybe there are censored/explicit version of the audio-only *and* the video? dunno.
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      • bottom line. if I was wrong in the edit I linked above, I feel dumb. I want to take out my anger on the streaming video flag.
      • hawke
        CallerNo6: I do think that a recording-recording AR would be useful.
      • CallerNo6
        If I propose it, I will propose it in anger!
      • (time to see if the dark side really works)
      • CallerNo6 couldn't help himself. https://twitter.com/CallerNo6/status/477133783028617216
      • hawke
        CallerNo6: Hah, I did my own but used their example: https://twitter.com/hawke42/status/477120591305...
      • CallerNo6
        when alexes attack
      • hawke
        lol, nice
      • bleh, stupid old classical style that told everyone to put the full work title in the track name.
      • CallerNo6
        The old classical release titles are worse (now that the release artist isn't always/only the composer)
      • hawke
        Are they?
      • Why’s that?
      • CallerNo6
        I mean, "The Etudes" isn't such a bad title if you know the performer.
      • But in the old system, it was too ambiguous so people would use the work titles as the release title.
      • hawke
        Under the old system, performer was put in the title though.
      • CallerNo6
        True. But still people were doing it that way. Or did I dream it?
      • hawke
        Probably.
      • CallerNo6
        I'm sure I did. Maybe I was misguided.
      • hawke
        I mean, yes people were probably doing it that way; it seems like absolutely every possible option was explored by someone. :-)
      • Anyway, I’m more complaining about the way the old classical style encouraged creating a custom title from whole cloth for every track on every release.
      • (since there were no works to unify/normalize/standardize the naming)
      • Would have been much better if the style of the time were just to copy what’s on the release.
      • Sure you have so-so tagging but it sure makes it easier to figure out what the hell is on the release.
      • CallerNo6
        I think the idea was to make them machine-readable. Silly.
      • hawke
        Not a terrible idea in theory…
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      • …a complete failure in practice
      • Inconsistent interpretation of track titles as printed → inconsistent naming patterns for track titles → complete mess
      • CallerNo6
        If there was a title in the CSG standard list, it worked I guess. Just copy-n-paste.
      • hawke
        …but not everyone did that, and it wasn’t very findable, and IIRC it wasn’t consistent (or accurate) itself.
      • CallerNo6
        right
      • plus you'd need a standard list for every language, whatever that means.
      • (the conjunctions are in Swedish!)
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      • hawke
      • (first three works)
      • I don’t even know how to deal with that.
      • Possibly nuke it from orbit?
      • Also, who the hell thought it was a good idea to assign the number “33B” to a totally different work from “33b”
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      • CallerNo6
        it's the only way to be sure
      • hawke
        Open to suggestions, btw. ;-)
      • CallerNo6
        I don't even understand what's going on in the first one.
      • hawke
        heh
      • Yeah, that’s why I don’t know how to deal with it. :-)
      • K. 284a from the 6th edition of the Köchel catalogue is “4 preludes for piano” (and is missing from the first edition, indicated by "deest")
      • CallerNo6
        Are the preludes that short?
      • I mean, the track is 4 minutes. That's a lot to cram into 4 minutes.
      • hawke
        K. 300g from the 6th edition is “Capriccio in C for Piano” and is K. 395 in the first edition (not sure why they list "deest" for that)
      • So it *might* be a performance of one of the 4 preludes and the capriccio.
      • (if someone thought it was a good idea to include every tempo marking and … whatever else, I guess?
      • I do find several listings like that though, e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Prelude-major-K-284a-Capr...
      • also spotify
      • “Prelude in C major, K. 284a (Capriccio in C major, K. 395)”
      • Note that the cover art on that link is 150% wrong.
      • CallerNo6 is tempted to buy it for $0.89
      • heh
      • derwin
        pls no world cup spoilers, btw
      • hawke
        n.b. its not that recording.
      • derwin
        I know it's a lot to ask, but given international crowd and time shifting of tv
      • it would be awesome if ppl could not spoiler :)
      • hawke
        derwin: Hey, I hear they kicked (will kick?) a ball around.
      • kepstin-laptop
        and there was some not scoring.
      • CallerNo6
        noted (not same recording)
      • kepstin-laptop doesn't follow it at all, so he has no idea what's really going on :)
      • derwin might want to avoid the internet for a while
      • kepstin-laptop
        my phone asked me if I wanted to get score updates, I said no.
      • derwin
        CallerNo6: I know :/
      • hawke
        Also, a team either won or lost, and another team did likewise.
      • Or, will have won or lost.
      • or something
      • There was sportsball.
      • CallerNo6 has only seen one season of Game of Thrones. So the internet is a dangerous place.
      • kepstin-laptop hasn't yet seen anything but random clips of game of thrones
      • kepstin-laptop
        I suppose I probably should at some point, but I've already read the books and there's other stuff I want to see more...
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      • hawke
        kepstin-laptop: the show is worthwhile, even having read the books.
      • CallerNo6 hasn't read the books, but is trying to achieve entry level cultural literacy.
      • CallerNo6
        Maybe I'll read the books, but they're certainly not at the top of my to-read pile.
      • derwin: I also wish people wouldn't give east coast election results. It makes voting in California feel pointless.
      • (and maybe it is)
      • derwin
        well, voting in national elections in california is pointless
      • and probably state elections in most places as well
      • but yes, it becomes more pointless than that, even.
      • kepstin-laptop
        interestingly, the way the canadian system works, reporting east coast federal election results doesn't make voting in the west pointless
      • well, maybe it does once they get past ontario and quebec
      • kepstin-laptop actually has a provincial election today, which is mostly within one timezone
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      • hawke wishes more classical editors hung out on IRC so they could advice on that K. 284a mess.
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      • CallerNo6
        hawke: flag it in the annotation, and we an maybe orgainize a classical fixme sprint?
      • hawke
        heh
      • CallerNo6: A good thought.
      • Mineo
        classical fixme sprint could take a while even with an infinite amount of monkeys :-)
      • hawke
        Mineo: not with a well-defined area.
      • CallerNo6: Sadly, I don’t feel like MB works well with direct collaboration.
      • And I don’t have any ideas for how that might be improved.
      • CallerNo6
        I think people are more likely to take on a project, large or small, if there's at least some hope of seeing progress. So defining the scope is important.
      • hawke
        agreed.
      • But it’s hard enough just trying to work on something by yourself, when you can’t see the progress except as orange 'pending edit' hilights
      • CallerNo6
        but then, the last cotm I remember was Bruce Springsteen. Totally uninteresting to me, and the work that needed doing was mostly bootlegs which I know nothing about.
      • hawke
        Let alone working with others who might be touching the same thing.
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      • CallerNo6
        obligatory: #musicbrainz-doc still exists!
      • don't let the dream die
      • aside: poop. some days, the g4 powerbook you pulled out of the dumpster simply refuses to boot into lxde.
      • derwin
        lawl
      • CallerNo6
        it was going to be a triumph of the calerno6 spirit. oh well.
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      • CallerNo6 tends to think that better docs will lead to better/more/not-as-demoralizing editing . That's no small task though.
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      • hawke
        CallerNo6: You think so?
      • I tend to agree as far as it will lead to better edits in the first place…
      • Still, 841 pages of recordings is a daunting task at the best of times.
      • CallerNo6
        woah. is that for mozart?
      • hawke
        Yeah
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