#musicbrainz

lol at the top rated comment. I tried to be a bit more helpful but even I had to roll my eyes a little bit… https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1j...

lol

I do think I have a CD to add to musicbrainz later, some random CD from a ukulele kids teaching book :)

Just need to get the CD out again..

<elomatreb[m]> "@applecuckoo: Is there something..." <- elomatreb: whoops, just saw this - let's see...... (full message at <https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/...>)

@applecuckoo: that’s quite a list! These documentation pages are managed as a wiki, if you want you can make these changes yourself or I can do it later today (https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Work#External_data...)

oh what? you can edit it?

oh whoops, just saw the account button

elomatreb: hey uh why is the create account page returning error 401?

it looks like it's springing a lot of sign in prompts at me

Sorry, an anti-Spam measure. You need to enter „NOTSPAM“ into both username and password fields of the popup you get

ah, right. thanks!

It used to give that instruction in the popup itself but browsers stopped showing that due to phishing attacks

hmm, maybe that could go in a banner instead?

elomatreb: thanks for the heads up - I'll probably get to editing the database stuff later.

the rate limit header that listenbrainz uses looks like a pretty smart solution. why does the musicbrainz api has a static rate limit?

Because 1 per sec is easy to use.

Listenbrainz is a bit more dynamic and change depending on whether you fed it an authorisation header.

Personally I like having a rate limit header as I like being able to do some bursting to improve UX, but I still struggle to make a working implementation of a rate limiter on the client side...

(That is actually async and prioritize processing the received data over sending more requests without consulting what the limits are cured

question

I tried to make a change to the artist

but I think I did some kind of a change and got conflicts

does that mean that my edit got cancelled?

do I have to redo it?

Usually yes. If you link to the edit I can probably tell you what conflicted

oh thanks, ok I got it

I suppose I should had cancelled the intermediate edit to prevent this, right?

Changing the artist and then changing the name of the artist while both edits were open probably wasnt the best idea

Yeah, probably :)

Updating production servers

Release done, https://blog.metabrainz.org/2025/03/24/musicbra...

Eh, two weeks of beta testing and I still haven't found the time to test the new API feature that I requested 😅

Oh no

and oh yes for me because I can finish my label cleaning 🙌

wileyfoxyx: let us know if it seems broken still, but hopefully it'll work :)

reosarevok (@_discord_1151240977378463764:chatbrainz.org): everything worked fine, though it still took a while to apply the edit (perhaps because of the VPN i'm using)

No, we expect it to be slow

Just not so slow the site times out

But IIRC bitmap tested it and it was like one fifth or something of the time but still quite a few seconds?

yeah, it was slower than usual edits

reordering the apple digital master series will take ~11s now (previously ~73s 😬)

there is still a performance issue but it won't entirely time out

does "SoundCloud: MusicBrainz import" work for you?

I can ask questions about editing metadata here right?

so I've tried to merge two release groups, they've gone yellow for some reason. not sure if I've done it right

I clicked "Merge release groups" after selecting them both

* them both, and did the form thing

yellow means the edits are open

ohhh

it'll close after a week or 3 accept votes

check this page

ahh! think I've only done one edit that needed approval so far, so not used to the process

did see merge > delete so did that

you've done right if the release groups are identical

yep

funnily enough I somehow managed to submit the same release group twice, hence the merge

everyone makes the same mistake sometimes it is alright