#musicbrainz

hello

How can https://musicbrainz.org/edit/124075468 be reverted? it seems like an obvious vandalism to me.

are you sure you linked the right edit?

yes, the album is named what was there before, not "free internet"

ehr, no

which is the only real change in this edit, isn't it?

the edit states clearly "add medium"

also,~ https://musicbrainz.org/release/8668543d-74a5-4...

also, see https://musicbrainz.org/release/8668543d-74a5-4... where you can also find that the cover is uploaded, which shows that the album is called "free internet"

I see

then I was wrong, taking back

I am sorry

no worries, it's good being aware of possible wrongful edits

The upcoming feature to add dances to MusicBrainz is pretty neat, ngl

rustynova: not sure if that was a small april joke but thanks for the reminder that "member of" needed a free text attribute that can be used to indicate dancers (and other stuff)

I had merged code to make it possible almost a year ago, then I forgot to add it until now 😅

Aprils successfully fooled~

But I was talking about more of the choreography than the people doing it

Well, one step at a time

(that's also how you'd store a choreography, coincidentally)

CRAP has it ever happened that you created a release EXACTLY when someone else did

well I just did LOL if someone could vote on the merge real quick https://musicbrainz.org/edit/124142033

what a mess...

Well recent releases do make it likely

depends on the artist too

I've got a bot that scrapes release groups on MusicBrainz to get album release dates, but it doesn't always work right. As far as I can tell, release groups don't really have "release dates", only releases do. So I'm using the heuristic that my bot should use the earliest date of an official release in a release group.... (full message at

<https://matrix.chatbrainz.org/_matrix/media/v3/...>)

mightytyguy (@_discord_694001273074352208:chatbrainz.org) Musicbrainz does not prefill the date, but all components are optional (so e.g. if you just know that an album was release in April 1995, the release date would be `1995-04`). In this case it's quite likely to be a mistake though

confirming release dates is hard, especially for pre-digital stuff, but in this case I think I would consider it justified to fix the date by removing the -01 part

otherwise your heuristic for generating the earliest release date of an "album" in the abstract sense is generally what you want

mightytyguy: Do you need a bot or could you be using the data dumps? I’ll let the devs pipe in if needed, because I don’t really know the technicalities, but we have been facing some trouble with AI scrapers recently. IPs are being blocked left, right and center! Just a heads up that if you are unable to connect to MB one day soon then you should probably have a chat with zas (IP access overlord)

Wait, I swear I saw a field on the API result for earlies release

Take `first-release-date`. It should only take official releases

As for the date, no, it's actually fully set to 01 april. Not partially set

(it is fully set on this release)

I'd have to check my code (I'm not at home atm) but I _think_ that's what I'm using.

Ah, yeah - see, for the release I mentioned above, first-release-date is 04-01-1995: https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group/79c6...

So it's just a mistake on the release. I'll submit a correction.