neachdinn_: Tracks have to link to a single recording. If you really care, you can have a recording-to-recording relationship saying that these 5 recordings are edits of this 1 original recording (i.e., excerpts). But I wouldn’t normally do that unless that longer recording also exists somewhere. Instead, I would use a recording-to-work relationship for the snippets and say that each is a partial recording of the underlying work.
neachdainn_
crism: If that's how it's normally done, that's fine by me. I think it will be less work anyway. Thanks!
So I guess they used to have dj. which did something else, then it was gone, and now it's back as the current streaming and djing site
Probably safe to just redirect for now, at least any that match the general style
atj[m]
Quite impressed they managed to create a proper DJ deck interface with EQ controls etc. that runs in a browser.
reosarevok[m]
Yeah, it looks kinda cool - not sure how well it works, since I cannot log in, but :D
Third question: what do we do with artist/label links
They are also available in dj. so it's not like they're not streamable by definition, but it's the usual issue where some might be and some might not. My preference would be to add a Beatport rel and just use that, but that kind of solution is blocked so... just keep purchase for now?
Guess I'll do that
atj[m]
sorry, not sure why the dedicated relationship approach is blocked so I won't get into that, but just keeping purchase seems reasonable for now.
reosarevok[m]
Ok :)
atj[m]
At this point, I think it's reasonable to assume that every release on beatport.com is downloadable, but we can't be 100% sure about streamable given the is_available_for_streaming attribute in the API.
reosarevok[m]
Yeah, I'm doing that assumption at the moment. Preselect download, allow selecting stream
I expect a lot of the imports are with a tool and the tool can check the API attribute, but :)
atj[m]
I don't think many people actually import data from Beatport directly. Would be interesting to see stats.
by default, picard will tag the "ARTIST" tag with the formatted artist as-written on the release, with human readable join phrases. if you explicitly don't want this, you can rewrite the ARTIST tag using picard tagger script.
something like $set(artist,$join(%artists%,;)) would probably do what you want
note that in tag formats that support it, artists is actually a "multi-value" tag where each individual value can be read without having to split using delimiters
I have some songs from a band called ave;new so splitting by semicolons breaks things for me, heh
