But the artist I want to upload music from has recorded in so many studios😔
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BlastboomStrice[
And I want to add them, since I have the info available
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BlastboomStrice[
But I have to create the studios and the recorders/sound engineers etc.
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BlastboomStrice[
Is it bad if I dont add the studios?👉👈
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BlastboomStrice[
And add the rest of info laterTM (which might be never)
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notthejohn[m]
I think that’s more than fine! It’s better for some info to be in the database than none at all, it can always get fleshed out more later whether by your or someone else entirely
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BlastboomStrice[
True true😊
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i522
tbh i kinda wish there was a "incomplete release" feature where you can mark something as a WIP
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i522
but keeping artists that are attached to it not GCed. since if you just make artists and not put them on a release, they get deleted after a day
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BlastboomStrice[
i522: Theres the quality setting I think
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elomatreb[m]
you can make them stick around if you add something as simple as a URL to them
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BlastboomStrice[
Yeah
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BlastboomStrice[
Or add any relathionship in general I think
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i522
BlastboomStrice[: mhm
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i522
use case is for huge albums like 400 tracks long which are an utter pain in the ass to try and tag in 1 go
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i522
i don't know how you fucking do that
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elomatreb[m]
yeah a way to save work-in-progress stuff in the editor would be very nice
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elomatreb[m]
also for the relationship editor, although there you can at least save incomplete stuff to the database
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i522
i think you can use the tracklist editor (as a text string) to save your work
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i522
and if you enter a mbid as an artist name it'll be linked automatically? i think?
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elomatreb[m]
yes, but that also loses quite a lot of detail (such as manually selected artists)
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elomatreb[m]
or selected recordings
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i522
but yeah
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i522
later goop house stuff is so incredibly long and a pain in the ass to tag, so like half of their albums are untagged
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BlastboomStrice[
Something related:
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BlastboomStrice[
Can I somehow upload a .json or something to an entity (artist/release etc.) to update or append info on jt?
artists should think of the poor metadata editors before making huge releases like that IMO
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BlastboomStrice[
elomatreb[m]: Oh I might have that script installed then
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BlastboomStrice[
Like, my thinking is, if I somehow contact the artists and they give me all the metadata, could I somehow automatically add them to musicbrainz?
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elomatreb[m]
fully automated editing without human review is against the rules, but you could use the seeding functionality to save a lot of work (similar to how Harmony and other importer tools make adding a release as simple as a couple of clicks)
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BlastboomStrice[
Yeah Id like to be able to review them first
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elomatreb[m]
but the key difficulty here is fitting the data into the Musicbrainz schema and terminology (e.g. we are picky about what "EP" means or capitalization)
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BlastboomStrice[
How do I seed those data tho?
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BlastboomStrice[
I have to make a POST request somehow
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BlastboomStrice[
Do I need a script?
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i522
the hard part is linking existing artists (given as a text string) to an artist MBID
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i522
and that kinda just has to be done manually
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i522
(the artist might not exist, an artist by that name might exist but might not be the same one, there might be multiple artists with the same name)
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BlastboomStrice[
Id create the artists, then grab the id and use it
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i522
<elomatreb[m]> "artists should think of the poor..." <- releasing artist credits as artist name + artist MBID
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elomatreb[m]
there are a couple of musicians who add their stuff to MB themselves
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BlastboomStrice[
Lol Id like to somehow get the people from the diy anarchist hip hop scene add stuff themselves on the database
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BlastboomStrice[
I need a critical mass for this to happen
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BlastboomStrice[
(And them to be still interested in music)
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i522
any diy anarchist hip hop recommendations, because presumably you see a lot of it? :D
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BlastboomStrice[
It's almost all of it in greek😅
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BlastboomStrice[
Krav boca is about half french tho
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BlastboomStrice[
Sara Ath does a mix of greek and arabian and german
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elomatreb[m]
I feel like convincing specifically anarchist hip hop artists to add themselves into a fairly rigidly structured database might be difficult :P
