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hmm if Doscourse/the forums have stopped working ofr anyone else, a hard refresh worked for me

I asked this the other day, but again, does anyone have any idea what to do with UPC’s from atisket that are in this format: AAB0045192497

If I swap the letter for 00 and add the checksum (9) it works, but I’m not sure if that’s correct?

Scream?

0000451924979 works

tried that reo but musicbrainz still didn’t add it unfortunately

I wouldn't do that without confirmation

Yeah… someone confirm it for me please :D

So if I saw a barcode like that I'd just remove it and maybe add it to the annotation instead

Yeah, that’s what I’m going to do. The barcode field wont take letters anyway

Indexed search has been lagging for the last 12h, it should be back to normal soon.

in principle, a barcode *could* have letters

check out code 39 and code 128

well, it's unlikely that a CD would be issued with one of these as retailers would probably have a hard time, but it's obviously a thing with digital releases

Hello everyone

Hi prk0ghy[pki][m]

Hey I would like to contriubute to the musicbrainz database. Is there any way I can upload all the existing metadata from audiofiles I have? I don't want to be sitting here and manually creating releases on the database. Are there any tools that can do this work for me?

No, and metadata from random audio files are generally not reliable enough.

prk0ghy[pki][m]: MusicBrainz Picard can help you with submitting release from tagged files, but you still have to enter most details by hand, and to give the sources (beyond the files) for these metadata in edit note.

See https://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/usage/submi... cluster release

Indexed search is working normally again for half an hour.

aerozol, https://isrc.ifpi.org/downloads/Valid_Character...

<yvanzo> "No, and metadata from random..." <- They are tagged pretty acurately since most of them were bought on beatport/bandcamp

prk0ghy[pki][m]: there's plenty of bad tags to find from there :) The cluster plugin should allow you to pre-fill a lot of the fields based on the data from the files though

But we do expect users to fill missing data and/or correct errors before submitting, hence requiring going through the website

prk0ghy[pki][m]: Alternatively there are importing scripts for Beatport and Bandcamp releases: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Guides/Userscripts#...

update: database maintenance is still going on at the moment

Lotheric: thanks! So Atisket is picking up an ISRC and not a UPC? They are different right...

AABs not on the list but I've already put it in the anotation and moved on tbh 😁

oh I misread

that was a upc ?

I thought it was an ISRC

well isrc are 12 characters long anyways, yours is 13

I don't really know what it is tbh, but it's what Atisket was spitting out where the barcode usually is

Sometimes you have to remove a leading 00 from that anyway, maybe this is similar noise

is the release on spotify ?

https://d.ontun.es/ can spit a barcode too

maybe compare the results

See the digital media releases here: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8adb123d-...

0000451925846 in there

Yeah, but weirdly not similar to what Atisket spits out for that Deezer version

Ugh, I forget this all the time - if something is (c) 2008, do I set the ended date as 2008 or leave it open?

end of what?

The relationship

e.g. start date 2008 end date 2008

it relates to a specific release, I don't think you'd set an open date as it is a single event

which relationship then? I don't see it from the backlogs here

if it*

So it could be copyrighted (©) by: GFS (German charity/Christmas albums) (2018)

or copyrighted (©) by: GFS (German charity/Christmas albums) (2018 - )

same as start

copyright on recordings is probably better served by phonographic copyright given anyone can copyright a reissue

It's in the documentation if you click help

:P

Thanks reo haha

This relationship? https://musicbrainz.org/relationship/2ed5a497-4...

duncan: thanks, this is a release relationship in this case, as yvanzo has linked

I guess I guessed it! :)

well, I guessed that, too.

aerozol: is this a bug with atisket?

atj: I don’t know? Is that a UPC or something that shouldn’t be there? I don’t know the workings of Deezer

You can run this through Deezer to check: https://www.deezer.com/album/80526392

Thoughts on whether to add ‘vol X’ to the title or the disambig with these? https://musicbrainz.org/label/c75ce07b-ac57-4cd...

There’s no number or indication of a series anywhere on the packaging, so I’m thinking to take it out of the title, but I can imagine that could be annoying for quite a few situations

add it to disambiguation if not in title or cover art

🫡

don't listen to me

Ooh that’s a tricky one

I wanted to remove it anyway, just needed someone to tell me I’m right, so all good

Anyone else have the forums freeze up every so often, until they hard refresh? Tried disabling all my plugins and whatnot, but haven’t tested further