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      • reosarevok
        Hmm
      • Picard-geeks, if I wanted to tag tracks based on their relationships, could I do that with tagger script stuff?
      • (some guy is complaining about us not having performers on artist for classical)
      • Mineo
        reosarevok: as a german my answer is "jein", a mixture of "ja" and "nein" - you *can* use tags like %performer:violin% (or any other instrument) in the file naming script, but you have to know the instrument or whatever beforehand
      • nikki
        hehehe
      • german is so much more fun for answering questions
      • reosarevok
        God, that's horrible
      • There's no way to select all performer tags? :/
      • Mineo
        (in theory, one could write a plugin to merge all performer:whatever tags into one multi-valued %allperformers% tag though)
      • reosarevok
        I guess the guy is right then in that there's no good way to tag classical with Picard, meh :(
      • I was hoping to prove him wrong!
      • nikki still thinks our classical style is pointlessly as difficult as possible for everyone
      • Heh
      • Yeah, having composers *and* performers on tracks would probably make more sense
      • But well
      • (composers still make no sense on recordings though)
      • Of course the ideal thing would be not to have any arbitrary artists and just use relationships for all, but
      • reosarevok shrugs
      • Freso
        reosarevok: So... what other tagger does he know of that does this well and easily since he's complaining that Picard can't?
      • reosarevok
        None, that's what he's complaining about :p
      • (that not even Picard can do it well, so the only choice is doing it by hand)
      • Freso
        Wait, is he complaining that there's no tagger in general or that Picard can't specifically?
      • reosarevok
        Well, he was complaining not even MB does it well enough
      • Freso
        Because the first is definitely a valid issue, but the 2nd is moot if there are no other taggers that can do it, IMHO.
      • reosarevok
        So, both?
      • It was basically "meh, all taggers suck for classical, even Picard which is good for the rest"
      • Which seemingly is true :(
      • And I mean, that no other taggers can do it shouldn't be a reason we can't do better, we're supposed to be better than them anyway ;)
      • snartal
        Is there something missing from the AR extra tags picard gives you?
      • reosarevok
        Yes, any player that can use them :p
      • snartal
        Isn't that a player issue, and not a picard issue?
      • Freso
        snartal: You didn't say the missing thing had to be a Picard issue.
      • reosarevok
        Technically yes, it's a player issue
      • In practice, us having no clear way of letting users put the performers somewhere their player can see is kinda both :/
      • nikki
        the point of tagging your files is to add information to the files that you can use :P
      • we could start stripping all tags except for mbids and claiming it's a player issue if they can't fetch the data from mb, but that wouldn't go down well
      • since that's not much use :P
      • Mineo
        reosarevok: heh, turns out I was wrong: there's https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MusicBrainz_Picard... which, if invoked like $performer() will give you a comma-separated list of all performers
      • reosarevok
        Oooh, nice!
      • Mineo goes back to figuring out why his super meat boy achievements are not getting unlocked :/
      • snartal
        So, with that info, does Picard go back to being the most super awesomeus tagger in the universe?
      • reosarevok
        Well it still was, other taggers aren't better :p
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      • larsduesing
        Hi all...
      • Short question: is there any way to tell the database that a release is part of a series (like "Now! Thats what I call music" in US/UK or "Bravo Hits" in Germany)?
      • nikki
        no, not yet
      • but as you can probably guess from the number of votes on http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-2714 it's quite a popular idea :)
      • larsduesing
        oh.. ok.. going to upvote the idea :)
      • thanks nikki
      • JonnyJD_
        the "next disc in series" AR got removed somewhen?
      • reosarevok_
        Did it ever exist?
      • JonnyJD_
        hm, not sure if I remember it existing or not finishing with a proposal.. but I remember it..
      • reosarevok_
        There was a wiki page somewhere
      • JonnyJD_
        My guess would be it existed pre-NGS
      • reosarevok_
        So it was probably proposed
      • But I don't think it ever existed
      • nikki would know though :p
      • JonnyJD_
      • reosarevok_
        No, no
      • I meant a wiki page for such a rel
      • nikki
        it was proposed but never passed
      • reosarevok_
        Good, neither of us was going crazy then :)
      • larsduesing
        "Series are also a candidate for the entity to implement first in the currently unofficial new MusicBrainz server plan."
      • Ok, somebody does something about that...
      • JonnyJD_
      • reosarevok_
        larsduesing: yeah, we were planning to add them last May - now we'd like to add them next May :p
      • Hopefully this time it'll work out :)
      • JonnyJD_: heh, that's a confusing redirect. I'll remove it ( http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Part_of_Se... will still work, for people who want to check it)
      • Freso
        larsduesing: Obviously, you're welcome to take a shot at coding/implementing it yourself. That should increase the chances of something happening drastically.
      • reosarevok_
        heh
      • JonnyJD_
        that redirect is used int the above mentioned series wiki page
      • reosarevok_
        Meh :p
      • I'll fix that then
      • JonnyJD_
        thx, I'll be off soon. Shouldn't start new stuff now
      • well "off"... afk (I should go off more often)
      • larsduesing
        Freso, reosarevok_: If I could be of any help tell me..
      • Freso: But implementing something which is in discussion is a little bit foolish :)
      • Freso
        larsduesing: It'll be in discussion until long after it's been implemented.
      • larsduesing
        right again...
      • Freso
        We're still discussing Areas (added in May) and Places (added in October).
      • Not to mentioned Recordings and about everything else...
      • reosarevok_
        hahaha
      • larsduesing
        I should have a look at the database...
      • Freso considers brining the "part of series" relationship back to -style
      • Freso
        reosarevok: In the context of making a Series entity or some such, would it rather more benefit from some series entries already linked together or more detract to have relationship to deprecate and ultimately remove?
      • reosarevok doesn't really know
      • reosarevok
        If they were easy to just import, probably benefit? But dunno if enough for it to be worth it to make the user effort
      • reosarevok shrugs
      • nikki
        if we were going to do it now, I'd be more in favour of having series as types of works (which has the advantage of having url relationships available)
      • (and also the advantage of not needing to add all the parts of the series to link them all to the same thing)
      • reosarevok
        No ordering, but yeah
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      • Of course, it helps that works are the more "thing"-like entities we have
      • Freso
        I think pre-Series-as-entity, ordering is less important than just getting the series entries grouped together.
      • nikki
        we could just order them by release date by default when migrating, I bet that would give pretty reasonable results
      • or try to parse titles :P
      • Freso
        Heh.
      • reosarevok
        It would
      • It's just it would also give some cases of wrong ordering, so it'd be moving from not-there to wrong
      • reosarevok shrugs
      • nikki
        eh, we're gonna get wrong stuff anyway, since apparently we're not going to implement unordered stuff until we've done ordered stuff
      • Freso
        So a Release Group <-> Work relationship "is part of the series" or something?
      • reosarevok
        Not so easy :p
      • Sometimes we share RGs for stuff in different series
      • Or only a reissue is part of the series
      • nikki
        yeah, I have several release series :/
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