#musicbrainz

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August 1st 2013

      • jesus2099_vn
        I'M FIRST !
      • WOOHOOOO
      • nikki
        how old are you?
      • 10?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        lol
      • jesus2099
        Nikki: I recently discovered this "first"thing, it's so cool, laughable ! Haha
      • nikki
        for idiots, sure
      • jesus2099
        Sure
      • Funnier than ML anyway
      • (Ok, which is no challenge)
      • nikki
        you really are a one-track record...
      • jesus2099
        No, I'm apparently a 10 year old idiot on REPEAT A-B
      • drsaunde
        no caa wears on the sanity
      • jesus2099
        Am I supposed to understand what you said, doctor?
      • Because I didn't. :)
      • th1rtyf0ur
        ^ cover art archive is having issues
      • just got one myself -_-
      • "please lower your rate". O RLY? it was my first submission of the day :P
      • nikki
        that bit will at least be improved in the next release :P
      • th1rtyf0ur
        guess i'll go to lunch then.
      • CallerNo6 chuckles: https://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-84a-ladislav
      • nikki
        drsaunde: they're looking into it
      • drsaunde
        CAA's back
      • nikki: Flags have been gone for me since last update tho :-(
      • nikki
        last update of the script?
      • or the server or what?
      • drsaunde
        of the server
      • nikki
        hmm
      • which browser?
      • drsaunde
        ff
      • nikki
        which version of firefox?
      • drsaunde
        22.0
      • nikki
        hm. works for me :/
      • maybe it's a clash with another user script
      • drsaunde
        ok so i uninstalled and reinstalled and works fine
      • sorry to have wasted your time
      • nikki
        that's ok :)
      • drsaunde
        it's funny that a dozen years ago, i was an IT professional, now i'm growing luddite every day
      • let that be a lesson kiddies too much pot and you can't be nerd anymore
      • simukis_
        why there's [no label] at all? Leaving label empty signifies release has no label just as well.
      • well it's either [no label] or unknown label
      • is there's somewhere reasoning beyond making [no label]?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        blank entry could mean that someone just hasn't bothered to enter it yet. '[no label]' is explicit
      • nikki
        having nothing there *does* mean nobody's bothered to enter it
      • same applies to the catno and barcode
      • th1rtyf0ur
        yes. which is different from "I have verified that there is, in fact, no label"
      • nikki
        yeah, exactly
      • I was just saying it's not just "could mean" XD
      • th1rtyf0ur
        ok, who's the pedant now? :D
      • nikki
        :P
      • warp
        we probably should have checkboxes for that, like for barcodes.
      • th1rtyf0ur
        yeah, it's annoying to have to type out '[no label]' and wait for the ajax entry :D
      • question: a cassette has (unlisted) spoken interludes between some of the songs. 2 Release entries are present, 1 which lists them as [spoken #x], 1 which doesn't list them. should 1 be a 'pseudo-release' of the other?
      • warp
        th1rtyf0ur: a cassette tracklist should follow the tracklist on the cover (if it exists), so that one should definitely be official.
      • th1rtyf0ur
        ok. so the one that lists the [spoken] tracks is pseduo- then? or should be merged?
      • warp
        th1rtyf0ur: depends :)
      • th1rtyf0ur
        since it's a cassette, there aren't actual tracks to distinguish separation
      • warp
        th1rtyf0ur: is there a CD release to compare this tracklist too?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        ok, maybe this makes it easier- there are bootleg CDs that include the cassette on it, which separate the tracsk
      • warp
        th1rtyf0ur: do bootlegged/pirated copies usually have the tracks seperated?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        no official ones, though
      • ianmcorvidae
        I mean, it's definitely not a pseudorelease, since those are for translations and transliterations
      • at least as far as the actual release status goes
      • warp
        th1rtyf0ur: in that case turn it into a bootleg release in the database.
      • th1rtyf0ur
        ha, ok. i'd just changed it *from* bootleg XD
      • th1rtyf0ur goes to cancel that part of the edit
      • warp
        :D
      • th1rtyf0ur
        i assume it's preferable to merge recordings than to change the recording at the release level, thus orphaning one & letting it get auto-deleted?
      • nikki
        yes
      • merging keeps the mbids, so anyone with the old mbid will be able to find the new one
      • th1rtyf0ur
        k, that's what i thought
      • i'm gonna need to write a new userscript then, so I can see what releases each recording appears on
      • unless there's already one that does that :)
      • nikki
        where?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        didn't see anything that looked like it did, though
      • on work/recording pages
      • nikki
        the recording page already shows you though...
      • th1rtyf0ur
        those list all the other recordings of a work, but unless they all have detailed disambiguation notes, you don't know what releases they appear on w/o clicking on each one
      • nikki
        oh, you mean the list of an artist's recordings, not the recordings page itself
      • th1rtyf0ur
        either artist/MBID/recordings or recording/MBID
      • nikki
        recording/mbid does list the releases
      • th1rtyf0ur
        recording/MBID lists the releases for *that* recording, but not for all the other recordings of the same work
      • nikki
        oh
      • th1rtyf0ur
        it justs lists them as '[live ][cover ]recordings: work (disambig.)'
      • nikki
        then no, I know of nothing :P
      • th1rtyf0ur
        for most things I'll be able to tell by what releases it's on whether it's the same recording or not
      • but it'll probably take a loot of loading, since it'll have to query each recording entry for releases
      • th1rtyf0ur wonders which works have the most recordings in MB... XD
      • nikki
      • ruaok
        want the new VM?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        that's kinda cheating XD
      • nikki
      • th1rtyf0ur
        ok, an actual song.
      • that's a lot. wonder how many are actually duplicates, heh
      • nikki
      • oh ffs
      • *there*. now with names XD
      • th1rtyf0ur
        guess there's a lot of Nirvana & U2 bootlegs in there XD
      • nikki
        sounds about right :P
      • simukis_
        wait… why's prose in MB?
      • th1rtyf0ur
        lots of The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole- I have a hard time believing those are all unique recordings
      • mb-chat-logger
        New post: blog: New virtual machine available via BitTorrent <http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=2086>;
      • portik
        any recording merge script recommendation for opera?
      • mb-chat-logger
        New post: blog: libdiscid 0.5.2 released <http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=2090>;
      • CatQuest
        hey watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRpxecLkUHQ  it deserves a lot more views
      • Lotheric
        my brain just exploded