#musicbrainz

yuck. I'd rather see no ETI guideline for recordings.

no offense, I know some people worked hard on getting consensus.

crap. any way to undo a recording merge?

you can cancel the edit

but if it's already been applied, then there's no shortcut. you'll need to make a new recording (or recordings) from scratch.

it's already thru

i can't even tell wtf I did wrong anymore. looks like I made a new one, 'cause a 'live'recording on a bootleg was using the studio recording, but then they got merged.. probably before my 'live' disambiguation note went through. rgh

but you caught it. cool.

yeah- the live boot was using the same recording as the studio one,so when I added the live stuff to the bootleg, it tagged the wrong recording.

making a new recording for the live boot

still don't know how the hell there's a >6m version of Bye June, though

..which says it's from a demo tape, which should be the <3m studio version

damn bootleg compilations XD

backwards recordings: "is an edit of"?

(ex: "!aaaH-aH, yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er'yehT", b-side of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!")

(literally the same recording, played backwards) XD

the most bizarre UK #1 ever

Napoleon XIV

i would call it a "remix" more than an "edit"

hm.. I consider remixing a much more complicated action

usually involves making many cuts & splices, adding new samples, etc.

just playing it backwards seems like more of an edit.

although MB's definition of "edit" seems to be based on shortening the track length

or censoring some parts

"or a shortened, censored, or otherwise edited version of the same material"

ok, 'otherwise edited' then

edit implies something was taken away...not necessarily shortened

nothing was taken away in this case, but it was re-arranged...not a typical remix but more so than saying something was removed

why did this edit fail? http://musicbrainz.org/edit/23433347

oh, was it because of http://musicbrainz.org/edit/23378793 ?

ps lol that cover art

lol

ohhh fuck

a billion of my edits just failed :/

modbot couldn't you let me know ahead of time so I could cancel them...

:(

Which expo?

toronto's comicon was last weekend

Ah, I've been in Chicago for the last week

ah cool

wanted to see what a stanley cup winning city was like?

heh

I was actually here when that game was played

I'm in a suburb, but close enough

second city? stay away from the dark side

too much time there and oprah will own you

or Springer

oh, guess that's not on anymore

er, not in Chicago, at least

oh god dammit

is there some way to batch rename works...

probably not w/o a userscript

grrrrr

well I guess I'll just let these works die and recreate them properly after some of my edits pass

well, unless someone wants to vote on them :) http://goo.gl/mncAGK

nobody, huh...

'sen no nai se ni'? lol. should be 'yo', yo.

(not your mistake, i know)

I have no idea they're right

i hope you're gonna fix the transliteration errors, too XD

hiwaza -> higi

etc

nikuyande? where'd the ya come from?

bishoumi.. lol. you mentioned that one the other day, right?

th1rtyf0ur: I got rid of the transliteration completely

it doesn't belong on that release since it's marked official :3

giri -> itsuwari

hate wa -> hate ni wa

god, it feels really stupid to write "wa"

uh huh

$("input:radio[id$='Yes']").prop("checked", true); // is quite helpful :D

there's a userscript for mass voting ;)

thanks for the votes

I'm bringing the asterix server back into the main cluster

if anything explodes, please shout!

what does "cluster" mean above?

derwin: the group of servers that responds to requests for 'musicbrainz.org'

webservers then

Well, beta has its own webserver ;)

(also, "main cluster" just sounds cooler :D )

a 'cluster' in general just refers to any collection of computers that are working together to solve a single problem.

Is IA giving us problems at the moment?

snartal: https://archive.org/stats/s3.php

CAA down, eh?

A CD with MP3s is a "CD", not "Digital Media"... right?

(but afaik some people disagree)

it is both!

well, for me it refers to the physical format, which is a cd :P

nikki: you must really hate the audio/video dvd formats then :)

(and the subformat things were just there until we supported stuff like that properly, a bit more like discogs)

heh

I don't mind them that much, actually, I just wish we'd actually get round to implementing better stuff :P

I do however dislike that stupid videotape one and putting things like usb stick under digital media :P

anyway, some people have suggested adding a type for cd data stuff, but nobody's proposed it properly afaik

what happens to the existing cd one? renamed to audio cd and a new cd added?

The two just added as subtypes would be my suggestion.

(I mean, I guess it'd be more correct to add a new audio cd thing, but the amount of data that would need fixing would be terrible)

Anyone have a quick link for the audio book guidelines?

yeah, renaming the current one to audio cd would be the only thing that makes sense

Nvm.

I'm not sure how to read the guidelines.

Should I use "read by" *always*? And should I use the literal "read by" or the localised version of it?

Also "Part N" or the localised version used in the MP3 files themself?

Freso: IIRC it does say something like "use whatever the cover uses for join phrase, and if it uses nothing then 'read by' or its equivalent in the appropriate language"

Speaking from memory though

that's what I'd do anyway :p

(and appropriate language for part too

)

(that it might not say but seems reasonable)

nikki: what’s wrong with videotape?

it doesn't fit

It doesn’t?

no, that's not how the rest of the list is structured