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Hi,

Sorry, but I can't find zas :/

I don't think PM works across the matrix bridge from discord, so that likely wouldn't work? Also discord replies don't work across the bridge, so gianlucas94's message was in reply to reosarevok saying to PM zas their IP

gianlucas94: send an email to support@metabrainz.org

Hi, I just added an artist to MB for the first time (<https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9eafc354-3937-43...>). What do we do if a person has two Bandcamp accounts, one for music from before they were a Twitch streamer, and for music they created on Twitch or with the involvement of their community?

Welcome! Nice work! If the music is part of the same "discography" (e.g. the music they create under their twitch persona isn't considered to be completely different), it's fine to add both links to the same artist

Otherwise you can create a second artist and link the two with a "performs as" relationship

If you are leaving both links on the same artist, and want to be fancy, you can also edit the Bandcamp URL relationship to "credited as unfocusedinia". That can help clarify things

Yeah, the sidebar showed just "Bandcamp" for both of them, so it would be quite confusing which link is which

And now I run into another question; what should be done when the album has two versions of the same song? Track no. 2 is the "normal" version (as in, no parenthesis), while track no. 7 has "(acoustic)" at the end. The release in question is <https://nalaniproctor.bandcamp.com/album/you-we...;

I know that I could use relationships for this but I'm not exactly sure which one to use.

"edit of" seems close enough, but then there's the question of what's the original, and which one's an edit of which.

You should link those together via yet another entity type - they would both be recordings of the same "work".

But it's not necessary to do that - it's fine to just have the songs as titled, without relationships. Users can figure it out! But creating works is always excellent (you can add stuff like composer etc to works as well!)

Could use some votes/discussion on https://musicbrainz.org/release/07bfd047-8400-4....

I've added the "credited as" credit to Bandcamp and Youtube, as well as a disambiguation that will help stop a duplicate artist being added

Aerozol[m]: Thanks!

(What does it mean when there's a yellowish background on the cover art?)

Yellow background usually means there’s open edits - have you found the open edit links, in the right-side menu?

Open edits pass after a week, even if they get 0 votes, by the way, so it’s basically something you can ignore, unless someone votes no or comments.

Oh so it just means there's an ongoing vote, then

Yup. A lot of edits that add new stuff are auto-edits, because they are considered ’non-destructive’. Changing existing things often goes to a vote, to give time for feedback/minimise vandalism

imo adding cover art should be in the ’non-destructive’ category , but I lost that forum discussion :) to be fair, adding really crap cover art does seem like a common hobby...

lemuria (IRC): now that you’ve added some releases manually, try out Harmony! https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/

hmm, sounds good

aerozol[m]1: regarding adding images: too much time spent on dark corners of poorly moderated internet sites have given me a level of pessimism. it's only a matter of time before someone tries uploading something stupid... right?

Interestingly, we get very little totally off-topic image spam. It’s usually just really bad quality, or for the wrong version of an album

I guess MB is too niche for people to bother

Ah

And man, there are so many Twitch streamers out there with good music

Nalani's just the start of the rabbit hole, but given that you're a regular of a music database website you've probably seen it all already anyway.

Always too many niche rabbitholes to go down!!

I mean, MB isn't Wikimedia Commons

applecuckoo[m_c]: Could you elaborate?

I do treat the front page as NSFW because of the legitimate cover art that can pop up there lol

<lemuria> "applecuckoo (he/him) (nitro.chat..." <- Wikimedia Commons tends to get more vandalism, since it holds all the free media on Wikipedia

Found this in a op-shop album I'm adding. I like to think that MB bucks this trend!

lazybookwyrm[m]: have you considered `.artwork-cont { display: none !important }`

or any setting that turns off the front page cover art

I haven't, I'll have to remember that as a possibility

Unfortunately haven't had a job where I could sneak MB stuff in about two years so hasn't been an issue lately lol