#musicbrainz

My copy of this release https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release/be4dae86-2... has slightly different matrix/runout and mastering codes, does that warrant adding a new release? I assume it does but I figured I should make sure

zayd: usually if everything else is identical but the matrix is different it's the same release, just note the other matrix in the annotation

ivy: I'll do that then, thanks

but if anything else is different (like the disc art) it can be a new release

is it true there's no size limit on cover art (https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/How_to_Add_Cover_A... uploading a 45MB PNG seems to fail, but it works if i resize it a little

or at least, it doesn't display the preview, i didn't test actually uploading it

ok, it does seem to be uploading (very slowly)

https://musicbrainz.org/release/89f25425-bbeb-4... - the track titles are printed in English on the back cover and in Japanese in the booklet - is this an appropriate use of [Multiple languages]?

"If the release has tracks listed in multiple languages, the entry with both languages included is considered to be the official release. Entries with only one of the languages on the cover should be set to pseudo-release." says https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Release

Although if there's really two different tracklists rather than one with two languages, I'm not sure what I'd do...

adding a pseudo-release seems somehow weird in this situation

https://ia600401.us.archive.org/26/items/mbid-8... this is the japanese tracklist fwiw, it's from the booklet

actually if i'm right (not sure here as i don't speak Japanese) it seems to include both a transliteration and translation of each title, which is interesting

the translation would be a case for a pseudo-release, right? i don't know anything about those, i don't think i've even seen one before

although i'm hesitant to trust ChatGPT on things like this, it does seem to agree: "“WOLF UNCHAINED” is 解き放たれたオオカミ (Tokihanatareta Ōkami), meaning “The unleashed wolf.”"

I suspect Google Translate and the like are still a lot better than ChatGPT on the stuff it's been trained for, but the translation could be a pseudo-release indeed

Not required to add or anything though, so you don't need to bother unless you want to

the advantage of chatgpt is i can just paste the cover art and it OCRs it :-) but yes, i think i'll leave this, someone who actually knows the language can sort it out if they want to

Ah, that makes sense, heh

Haven't played with that :)

i wonder how useful a chatgpt interface to MB would be - i've playing around with the API recently for other things, might be interesting to try that

this is an unusually long disambig, should probably be an annotation... https://musicbrainz.org/release/a8cb3ff9-6c74-4...

could someone please auto-edit this if you have a spare moment? https://musicbrainz.org/edit/118938860 - put the annotation on the wrong release by accident

(the original annotation was added by me 2 minutes before this edit)

oh this release is a mess... someone has uploaded back cover art with a different tracklist

looks like one is a Russian bootleg

Approved

thanks

now let's sort out the rest of it

ok maybe it's not a bootleg, there *is* a bootleg but there's also an official release with the wrong tracklist: https://www.discogs.com/release/10027727-Jethro...

ok no, *both* official releases have the wrong track listing, the bootleg has the correct track order

except... one of the official discogs releases has both the correct track order and wrong track order in different images: https://www.discogs.com/release/10043938-Jethro... what the fuck

ok, i guess BMG realised the error and put a big sticker on the back with the right track order

what a mess

and i'm pretty sure https://musicbrainz.org/release/2b3d3fe8-c18a-4... is a duplicate of one of the other releases

if a bootleg has BMG imprint, i should add a new label for BMG bootlegs, right? we don't seem to have one already

oh we do, https://musicbrainz.org/label/bf6a67e6-6ee5-4fb...

ivy: "i wonder how useful a chatgpt interface to MB would be" If musicbrainz/metabrainz goes anywhere near AI I would stop using the site immediately

afrocat_0[m]: i'm thinking about a local/third party application, not something on the MB site

All, wrt to "This came up again recently because derat has been struggling a bit with users adding a ton of releases with importers before anyone can teach them to do it better : )" (from https://community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from-m...):

I've been adding released with Picard and am a beginner, so I wonder: have I been doing it wrong?

gmc[m]: link one of your releases and i imagine someone could review it :-)

OK, here's the latest one: https://musicbrainz.org/release/1a7bd9ad-4586-4...

i don't see anything obviously wrong there, the release seems to exist the matches what's on the bandcamp page... i don't imagine this is what people were referring to in that chat

i don't know how release country works for Bandcamp though, is XW more appropriate? (don't change that because i said so, i'm not sure which is preferred)

Thanks, just want to be sure I'm doing things right. Just in case, I'm reading the documentation and howtos now. Maybe I should have done that earlier :)

XW? I thought I'd just use the country of the artist, but maybe that's not correct?

also i think Language should be English since the release and track titles are in English (ref: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Release)