#musicbrainz

my new release entries haven't been showing up in MB Picard as of ~1hr ago

looks like its working again 👍

umm, i might have done an oopsie

is it bad that i havent create a work for each recording Ive added?

s/create/created/

i thought those were generated automatically (using https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/)

@Blastboom Strice Works are not created automatically, but they can be created easily if needed in the future

can I create them in batch?

Yes, in the release relationship editor

im adding some aliases and Ill go check it

You select the tracks/recordings and then hit a „Batch create new works“ button near the top

The reason works aren’t created automatically is that they don’t have much value if they’re just left alone, i.e. if you don’t have either relevant relationships or multiple recordings that should share a work

ah I see

so not much point in making them if they arent mulitple recordings using a work

right?

<elomatreb[m]> "Yes, in the release relationship..." <- btw, I couldnt find this

is it available from the artist page?

Either that or if you have metadata like a composer or lyricist

or should I go in each release?

It’s on the release page among the tabs at the top

elomatreb[m]: thank youu

for example, here

i should go to the release tab?

s/release/"releases"/

You need to go on the page for the release you want to add works to

ok I think I found it

I see I see

thanks:))

It’s a bit hidden, like many useful bits on the MB site sadly

I see

I'll probably not create any, not much point

it would be very helpful if I could do batch edits on various fields

like, going to an artist page, and add aliases to all the works, recordings, releases and release groups

s/,//

ive found some semi-batch ways, but they are kinda slow

There are userscripts for some situations that allow this sort of thing

You might check https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Guides/Userscripts and see if there is something useful

<elomatreb[m]> "You might check https://wiki...."; <- Let me know if you find any good ones for batch editing works, most of them that seem applicable to that seem pretty limited. I'd love to be able to batch edit or create works as part of a series, i.e. works for books in a series, but I didn't see anything that would help with that. I'd guess this is something that isn't possible with Userscripts, but I'm not familiar enough to

know. Apart from that, driving a web browser in some way seems like the only other alternative, which will inevitably be pretty slow.

the batch aliases tool somewhat helps

though not by much

though it could be better