#musicbrainz

Does Musicbrainz Picard support genre categories?

derwin: "edit" as in "shortened the thing and made a couple changes" or "significantly changed the thing"?

If the latter, probably a remix I'd say, but dunno

is there a musicbrainz publishing API that's less restrictive than the public http api? i'd like to build an ios shortcut to create edits directly from apple music

No. We specifically expect edits to be made via the website and not fully automated

There's importers to pre-seed content from apple music though

https://atisket.pulsewidth.org.uk is the most complete probably

curiously, is there a reason for "expect edits to be made via the website and not fully automated"?

too many low quality edits or something?

Yes, to ensure people are at least looking at what they are doing

We do allow bots for some tasks, but they should generally have publicly available code and it's mostly for rote stuff like fixing links and whatnot rather than adding new data

(and they don't have a special API either)

acknowledged

https://atisket.pulsewidth.org.uk makes things much easier

a lot of people don't seem to pay much attention when using a-tisket, so I can only imagine what clients making fully automated edits via an API would be like

i get that music tagging is both complex and heavily opinionated, but what can really go wrong with a-tisket? i figure it just pulls well-formed metadata from streaming services

maybe it's naive to assume all streaming service metadata is 'well-formed', heh

It really is :)

It's not the worst, usually, but it can be a mess sometimes

sbaildon: metadata on Deezer, Spotify and Apple Music is an absolute clusterfuck

to put it mildly

sbaildon: have a read of this thread - https://community.metabrainz.org/t/an-example-o...

What's up??

reosarevok: a typical edit in the context I'm talking about actually lengthens and significantly re-arranges it, and usually also has additional instruments

03:15 < sbaildon> maybe it's naive to assume all streaming service metadata is 'well-formed', heh

03:27 < reosarevok> It really is :)

(and I say this as someone in the top decile, easily, of atisket users)

What's atisket?

Does anyone know of a good way to search for cover art?  Just searching for the cd hasn't pulled up anything better than what's already in MB.

PelvicSorcery: https://atisket.pulsewidth.org.uk

Multi source seeder isn't clear.

Can anyone provide a bit more explanation for what atisket does?

Also, any suggestions for finding cover art?

PelvicSorcery: it gets info from deezer, itunes and spotify and uses that to seed the release editor.

So like a fancier version of the scripts?

Does it work with allmusic?

yes, a fancier version of the scripts, as a web app, and no, only those three sources

Thanks.  Now I just need to figure out cover art.

there's the enhanced cover art uploader script, which will automatically seed cover art from stores/sites there's a relationship on teh release to

I think I tried that but I need to double check,.

Is the cover art uploader script the one that pulls from linked sources?  Because for this release the only source linked is amazon and that art is already there.

PelvicSorcery: in general there are few sources of cover art for anything but very famous albums anywhere but digital stores or discogs.

You are awesome!  I didn't even think to look through discogs.

How do I get Picard to use my new cover art instead of the old one?