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I see where someone edited a track to change “vs.” to “Vs.” Seems like the capitalization-guesser should have a special case to leave “vs.” alone, no?

Adding a new release "Foobar (VIPs)" - it has the same tracklist as "Foobar" plus 2 extra tracks. Should this new release go in Foobar's existing release group, or a new one?

Comparing ISRCs on the releases, they seem to share the same recordings as well

That smells like the same release group, srxl.

I'm thinking new release group, since I'd probably want the "remix of" relationship between these two, and that's a relationship between groups

Same release group - that doesn't sound like a remix, just a reissue with bonus tracks

Unless all the tracks *are* remixed, but then they should not share ISRCs...

Ahhh, gotcha

They're not - same tracks as on the initial release

Also the label's catalog IDs for the two (MCEP223 for the original, MCEP223-V for the new one with remixes) lend to the "same release group" idea

I'll go with that then, cheers

Is there a way to search for cover art adds with a given comment? 👀

Freso: yes!

Great, thanks!

That should work IIRC

reosarevok: No, that search the edit notes, not the image comment. :\

Ooooh

I though comment as in note, sorry

Hmm

Then there might not be D:

atj, derwin: opinions on STYLE-2037 ?

STYLE-2037: Can we please add 'Hard Dance' genre https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/STYLE-2037

reosarevok: Would that be an MBS ticket then?

I guess :) I don't think we currently support any edit search based on entity comments / disambiguations

I've never heard of the genre, seems too generic IMV, but let me check the ticket

I think the idea is that it *is* a generic

Personally I don't think that "hard" is meaningful as a generic term for genres, it's actually a more specific term. The generic part is the word after "hard", e.g. house, trance etc.

I don't think you'd add "deep" as a generic genre for "deep house", "deep techno" etc.

Beatport's genre system is terrible IMV.

However I do feel a bit like this https://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/0... :)

MBS-12176: Allow edit searching on cover art properties

Freso: I thought you mean "find all coverarts uploaded by $user with the comment "foobar" :o

and thne a text box for foobar

just one more vote needed >:) https://musicbrainz.org/series/4b146781-65ee-48...

I'm not sure about the second edit?

won't "automatic" just number them in the order added to mb?

s/number/order/

I guess the point is that there's nothing that says that series need to be ordered in release order?

I believe automatic is clever to the extent that it orders by barcode + date

oh, if that's the case, ok.

some citation on that would help me feel more comfortable with my "yes" vote

otherwise I'd have just left it as-is..

I'm not sure how to cite that, e.g. the documentation doesn't mention how it works

ah well, it's non-destructive and not that significant in scope (as the series is not actually ordered) so here's my yes vote

but I remain curious

I believe at the very least it's orederd by the barcode, and catalogue number in absense of a difference in date, but I'm not 100% positive on that one

thanks for the vote <3

I honestly don't remember. bitmap: do you remember what we sort series on if there's no numbers?

hmm,.. there is a wiki page as follows: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/How_to_Add_a_Series

'The Ordering Type Sorts the items in the series automatically by their number attributes, using a natural sort order. You have to select whether the series is ordered automatically or manually.'

Yeah, but I don't remember if it defaults to anything if their numbers are missing :)

oh dear.. did not mean to put an evil face in initial comment there..

if there are no numbers or numbers are the same it does have some entity-specific rules

it'll order by relationship date first iirc, and then for releases it'll order by release date, then catalog number. not sure about barcode

it doesn't appear to use barcode https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-serve...

for these releases (I believe this may be the Decca catalogue system, or maybe universal), they have two catalogue numbbers, a shortt one, followed by a large one which is the barcode with an extra padding zero

it's distinct from the barcode to the extent that they list the short one in bold, immediately followed by the longer one

well, not followed by, rather, it's directly below the shorter one

I suppose it's probably fine to that extent,

I strongly suspect that the three LPs that aren't the sampler were released on the same day ,but I can't find any information either way

it sounds like they should be ordered correctly in that case

if not you can just set the number attributes to 1,2,3 etc.

(most likely the short cat#, not literally 1,2,3. or just revert back to manual ordering)

hmm the WIki says I'm logged in but it keeps popping up login boxes when I try save my edits. My user name and pw don't seem to satisfy it D:

Oh the old add 'NOTSPAM' into both fields thing. Which it didn't tell me because that only comes up on the login page :(

And now I get 'Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 415)' ?

Anyone else getting that? I shouldn't have done so many edits at once on this page, uh oh