#musicbrainz

Hi, I'm creating a new artist and as disambiguation I'm thinking on writing "acoustic piano/guitar/music box versioner". Would that be correct? I'm sure there's a better word than "versioner" :-) for... you know, an artist that makes simple versions of famous songs.

antlarr: idk, cover version or the like,

"makes versions of" yea i don't know tbh

i'd say just write whatever and explain in the anotation. any one else cna come and edit/improve

maybe "makes acoustic piano/guitar/music box versions"

but make sure aerozol doesnt coem and remove words :P

hehehe

thanks!

that looks great actually 👍

CatQuest: Should probably be ‘an artist that makes acoustic piano/guitar/music box versions’ to not leave contextual gaps ;)

‘…versions of songs’, really

But seriously, re. versions/versioner, maybe ‘covers’ instead?

I don't really know what's the difference between a "cover of a song" and a "version of a song", but in this case, I'm more inclined to use version, since it's quite different and I understand a cover tries to be a "remake"

Sounds like they might be doing stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxjY_YTksKM

But I haven’t heard it so your call :)

hehe, sorry, I didn't put the link. It's this artist: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tHTaS75vDkQCSn...

I thought a cover was just a version by someone else than the artist

You can have a metal cover of a folksy singer-songwriter song and it's still a cover :)

yes, they're a cover artist

ok, I'll change the disambiguation to "artist that makes acoustic piano/guitar/music box covers"

btw, according to the wikipedia, even if the original artist records a song again, that's considered a cover

Yeah - we don't usually have that strict a view of it in MB, although the term is pretty badly defined

from what I see... it's anything that's not the first recording of a song :)

to be honest that disambiguation seems excessively long, is there an artist with the same name who does electric piano covers?

"cover artist" would almost certainly be sufficient to disambiguate

Hello, I got a 32-track version of "Atomic Heart (Original Game Soundtrack) Vol.2" from music.youtube.com (https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy...); that release doesn't seem to be in the musicbrainz database; and the version picard found for me is missing track 28-Neptune.

moviuro: if there's several releases with / without extra tracks, then we should add a new release in the same release group :)

I have no idea how to do that. I'll have a look this evening Europe/Paris time if I can get some documentation/help to do that

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Add_a_Release :)

thanks reosarevok , I'll do that

I think it was just a mistake and the track was just left out when this release got added. MB has https://musicbrainz.org/release/0335910e-f9d4-4... , and the edit notes tell https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C6WLHYQK as the source

there track 28 Neptune is clearly there, and for the MB release track 28 just was left out (there is track 27 and 29, and nothing in between)

weird, picard used track 28 instead of 29, etc. (28 Shrouded in Mystery, 29 Arlekino, etc.)

moviuro: there is a difference between the track numbering (which always counts from 1 to the track position) and the track number as written (which sometimes are different, e.g. roman numerals). Picard will use the track position by default, but provides a variable for the number as written

Oh, ok

Then yeah, the release should just be amended, sorry :)

I'm having very severe performance issues to access the musicbrainz website though :(

ah, it's back now

Yeah, sorry, we did have temporary issues

it happens reosarevok , I'll request a refund

yeah, can I speak with the manager??

derwin: oh no. the memories.

[10:19] <reosarevok> I thought a cover was just a version by someone else than the artist <-- same

putting aside weird circumstances where the same physical person acts as a different artist, yeah i agree

https://musicbrainz.org/edit/100412273 reosarevok it wasn't even that difficult :)

atj: is it possible to point atisket at the test server for testing?

(say, if someone wants to try how it works before actually submitting real stuff)

They can edit the form using developer tools!

Updating prod containers

I don't even think there is a setting in the app configuration to change the MB URL

Do you think this would be a useful feature to seed to test or a local server?

I was just thinking of it as a possible thing to tell someone like a company or artist who might want to check what they are doing twice before they do it

Ok, I will add this idea to the notes for my in-progress a-tisket alternative then, seems easy enough to add another env variable for it.

Just noticed that picard doesn't seem to like .mka audio files. are there any plans to support these?

I have a question about relationships.

https://ia902607.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-7... give us the name of the artists at a release level. There are no more specific liners notes.

Should I add the relationships to the artists at the release level or at recordings level? It seems like a reasonable assumption to do the later.

Hi Sylvhem, I would add them at release level.

Thanks yvanzo!

Unless you can decide some more specific relationships at recording level.

Usually I add them at release level, and later on move them to recording level when I get more info.

For example, the recording/mixing relationships can be set at recording level because it applies to all recordings.

On the contrary, the instrument relationships cannot be set at recording level because it may only apply to some recordings.

But adding at release level is the safest option in any case.

Thanks!