#musicbrainz

i see ISNI adds artists using MUBZ as a source, but it's kinda random. is it possible to "request" adding information about someone?

Hi, is there a quick way to make a work from a recording, like a userscript? I mostly edit somewhat obscure pop music where there's not much difference between "work" and "recording" and wanting to add "this recording is a remix of that recording" is way too many steps when I have to manually add a work, link the work to the first recording, add another work for the remix, link the work to the remix, then link the two works

together. A one-click recording -> work conversion script would be a big help!

If you use the "Edit relationships" page on a release you can "Batch-add new works" which create works named after the recordings

Oh, that'll help! Thanks

This is brilliant, I just used it and an edit I thought was going to take 10 min took about two. Thanks again so much💯

Remixes are recording to recording tho? 😅

(Yes... I realized remixes were a bad example after I'd written. The case in question was a song with 1 remix, and one holiday version which isn't really a remix but a re-write. The remix I linked recording-to-recording, the holiday version I added as a new work related to the first work.)

That aside I realized I screwed up with a track listing, and ran into a question trying to fix it: The "seeder" tool shows sub-second track times. Apple Music and friends seem to truncate the milliseconds, rather than rounding them. Should I round them (which seems more accurate) or truncate them so they match the streaming pages? Or does it not matter that much? Thank you again!

goldenshimmer: that's a question that's handled very differently by different tools. Both are correct in some way. But MusicBrainz would round when displaying the value with sub seconds.

Most players seem to truncate, though

I'll interpret that as sounding like it's OK to leave the times rounded. (When adding the release I'd accidentally clobbered the streaming version's tracklist with the CD version, which I think lost the milliseconds. That mistake also left track's duration actually wrong, which I will fix. Sorry for the mistakes.)

Yes, I think you can round, as it will display the times the same as MB would with milliseconds

But it's also one of the reason why people should not interpret too much into 1 second difference in track times.

a user writing to support@ "I hear Gracenote is private now." wow, yes, its been closed for nearly 30 years now, lol.

maybe they found a letter in a bottle from the ocean which stated that? lol