#musicbrainz

the linked discogs release enumerate the difference. basically it's a different physical pressing of the CD.

https://www.discogs.com/release/4186380-Countin... vs. https://www.discogs.com/release/4186380-Countin...

so, for the purposes of MB (and Discogs) they're not "the same" but they have the same music on them.

Where do you see that it's a different pressing?

CatQuest: yeah, the number of tracks criterion for EP vs single vs. album seems fuzzy to me. but in the world of dance music releases that I mostly tag, almost everything is an EP unless it's a single (named after a contained track, multiple versions of that track on it, etc.)

PelvicSorcery: Matrix / Runout: 069490415

vs. Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 ): 069 490 4152 01$ M MADE IN USA BY PMDC

I think you linked the same discog twice.

oh, I did, sorry.

Mastering SID Code: IFPI L044 vs. Mastering SID Code (Variants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5): IFPI L009

Okay, thanks.

Also, I just realized I pulled the disc out to look at it while it was in the middle of ripping.  Doh!

" It is believed that Jalal Chandio released a thousand audio cassettes as well as ten thousand songs during his lifetime. "

zero of which are in mb... :/

(or Discogs, for that matter..)

2 in RYM...

Hello

I've been making a web-app with the last.fm api, and it only shows track MBID's and not release MBID's.

Is there any way I can make an api call to musicbrainz/coverartarchive with the track MBID to get the cover art of a release?

Lucasz10: yes (though I am not an API expert). The problem you are likely to run into is that one recording may be on multiple releases.

I understand the devs hang out in #metabrainz and you may get better answers there.

Lucasz10: note that last.fm has flopped back and forth on returning track vs. recording mbids in that field, and *unless* you submit a track mbid with every scrobble, the mbids returned are wrong more often than right :/

kepstin: that's unfortunate

crism: I'll try asking around in there then

Lucasz10: i'd probably recommend trying it as a track mbid, browse using /ws/2/release?track=MBID&inc=release-groups and then use the release group to get the cover art.

if that doesn't work (not found) it might be a recording id, in which case it's a bit more of a mess. You can do a release browse with /ws/2/release?recording=MBID but then you have to match the album name to find the release yourself.

so using a search query might be better there, hmm.

(alternatively import into lb and do it via there :D)

idk what your last.fm use case is though

CatQuest: I'm making an auto-generating blog that put's my most listened to songs into a nice layout. Last.fm doesn't show album covers half of the time though, so I'm using MusicBrainz to get the album art

you could import your data into listenbrainz and then pull from that instead :)

but i suppose that still doesn't really help with the cover art matching.

honestly, there's probably less cover art in musicbrainz/caa than in last.fm, tho it might vary depending on music genre

I have this album.  https://www.discogs.com/release/15597879-Sammy-...

The only version in MB is this.  https://musicbrainz.org/release/ced73bdd-7478-4...

That version is missing a lot of data.  Is there a better solution than doing a discogs import and then merging the two releases?

yes

... hag on

hang*

there ya go, stuff added

you're gonna have to put in the package type yourself because i dont know rhat

also i assume artwork scans (since this was really bad on discogs)

What did you do?

As for the art, I was just going to use what's in discogs.

i added the data that was missing?

i'd use some differnt image thn discogs, it's kidna bad quality?

anyway you cna see what i did in the edit history

you might be able to find a better art https://tineye.com/search/0526e5dd7166e4a8e0478...

you might be able to find a better art https://tineye.com/search/0526e5dd7166e4a8e0478...

I don't want to get yelled at for aspect ratios. :)

eh, thne i'd just use your own scans tbh

hmm, even allmusic has small image https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=8ou5...

it's got the back too though https://rovimusic.rovicorp.com/image.jpg?c=BI-H...

Maybe of interest to people here: I wrote a small tool that generates Atom feeds (similar to RSS feeds) for artists releases on Spotify and Bandcamp (more platforms may be added relatively simple, if you have requests): https://releasefeed.elomatreb.eu/

The cover art uploader says that it supports allmusic, but when I go to the cover art tab that isn't an option.

Am I missing something?

... what?

that must be a script

anyway just either paste the url i gave you or dl it and upload it oldfashionedly

allmusic doesn't want to give me the url, hence why I was attempting to use the script.

I think it's because when I tried to add allmusic to the release it yelled at me that it should be on the release group.

Any ideas why allmusic cover import isn't working?

PelvicSorcery: which script are you using?

The cover art importer script.  AFAIK there's only one.

So the one from https://github.com/ROpdebee/mb-userscripts?

Looking through the code, it seems weird to me that this should have worked at all, since it has a regex that doesn't match any of the allmusic URLs I can see

It doesn't even show a button for me.  But it says allmusic is supported in the list of hosts.

that would be consistent with it rejecting the URL. I tried it by pasting the URL into the textbox

specifically this regex: https://github.com/ROpdebee/mb-userscripts

that would have to match a url like /album/release/....

sorry, that url should have been https://github.com/ROpdebee/mb-userscripts/blob...