#musicbrainz

if Discogs says an album is "published by" GTR, but copyright and "distributed by" EMI Christian Music Group, which is the 'label' for MB?

(https://www.discogs.com/release/11013372-Bishop...)

i'm sure i saw something in the style guide about how to decide what the label is but i can't find it now

hm: https://musicbrainz.org/release/43308cfd-4791-4... - i'm pretty sure this is under the wrong artist, it's actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_.... that artist has another, unrelated album by the same name

but that is already in the database: https://musicbrainz.org/release/8442567d-52ef-4... - so what to do with the bad one?

ok, i proposed removing it

I wouldn’t remove it, but merge it.

Unless Alabama ever did a faithful cover of the soundtrack…

is there a benefit to merging it when all the information is already there?

Um… but yeah, no, there is nothing useful about that album. Voting for removal.

(same problem with https://musicbrainz.org/release/59203750-1f96-4... also, i did the same there)

Weird. The same editor created both of those albums, and cited the soundtrack’s Wikipedia page as they did so… some serious confusion there.

<02UltimateRiff> lw, crism: it's usually better to merge rather than delete duplicates, see https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Merge_Rather_Than_D...

UtlimateRiff: Yes, in general, which is why I suggested merging at first… but upon review, neither of those albums has any redeeming value at all. I don’t even know what one would merge them with.

i'm okay with merging it but i'm not sure what it should be merged into. if anyone's using this release, it's probably because they think it's the actual Alabama album, so should it be merged into there? or should it be merged into the soundtrack album with the same tracklist but a different artist?

is there any perferred method for handling featured artists where the release does not use any separator, eg puts the name below the track title? just use " featuring " maybe?

eg images here: https://www.discogs.com/release/6042932-Manitas...

"Jose Reyes" or (Reyes) or (de Plata-Reyes)

actually maybe the artist credit is "De Plata-Reyes", 2 artists with "-" separator

waltz??? https://musicbrainz.org/work/782839ec-781f-40b8...

i wonder if i should fix that, or someone is going to argue they have a version written in 3/4 so it's a waltz

You could ask in https://musicbrainz.org/edit/67571286 but I suspect given it was added at the same time as thesession that maybe it was marked as such there back then?

yeah, that could be it... thesession doesn't have a category for slow airs for some reason so they get added as random other things

oh it was crism who added it

Oh, yeah :)

crism: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/114371029

Sure… so many slow airs are in ¾, I think of them as waltzes. No argument from me, though.

does anyone have a paid soundcloud account and could check if this recording: https://soundcloud.com/eammonkavanagh/loch-leve... is a version of this tune: https://thesession.org/tunes/1927 - because if so i think the 'composed by' credit is wrong here (the tune is too old for that to be possible): https://musicbrainz.org/work/d277624e-a961-4111...

can't find any other recordings :-(

ah hang on, it's on spotify

Hi everyone, is anyone available to help me with an issue with initializing the database in the musicbrainz-docker repo?

Howdy!

<02UltimateRiff> function1: that looks more like (songwriting credits in parentheses) and a vocals credit elsewhere to me, but I don't typically work with stuff that old... it does remind me of credits on vinyls tho

I'm an experimental music creator trying to find my "tribe". Any thoughts on how to do that without obnoxious social media exploits?

<Roberto100> "Hi everyone, is anyone available..." <- what issue are you having?

I posted it to the community: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cannot-alloc..., but the TLDR is that the InitDB.pl fails and I get a database but with no musicbrainz schema.

so according to the liner notes, this track: https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=zcabfo1KRl8 has four tunes: Karley's Edge / Paddy on the Turnpike / Captain Keller's / Drowsy Maggie. the first one i don't recognise, the second is Paddy on the Turnpike, the third is Drowsy Maggie, and... there is no fourth tune? at least i don't hear anything that sounds like what thesession has for Captain Keller's

<Roberto42> "I posted it to the community..." <- thanks, I'll have a look at your post and try to reproduce the issue

hi

<08wileyfoxyx> so it was republished with new link today, oh god... now it's available in 4K and you could see how cheap it's made