#musicbrainz

Today I'm trying to add a couple collections of songs from opengameart.org

I don't think they get much attention here...

Here's my first attempt. I interpreted the page as having no official track order, do you think that's correct?

* Here's my first attempt. I interpreted the page as having no official track order, do you think that's correct?

Just realized I should probably strip the "seledreams_-_" out of some of these track titles

I just had a silly idea.

I wonder how impractical it would be to store a collection, in the form of periodically updated bittorrent file perhaps, of every permissively licensed track on musicbrainz that is trivially obtainable

s/impractical/(im)practical/

I guess if the releases have the open license relationship, as well as a “download for free” relationship, you could automate that with a smart enough script. In theory. Why you would want to is another question :D

fliz: Nice work on the classical release!!

muxxer.exe: funny re. your Metal Archives script!! I just did the same thing last week, for RYM (I didn’t quite manage to perfect it, but the script is matching artists on VA release pages, which is what I wanted).

I wasn’t sure about sharing it because I know nothing about code/can’t clean it up, but I guess anything that makes editing easier should be shared

By “I did the same thing” I mean “chatGPT did the same thing, with my nudging”

Try v0 for coding, it does a far better job.

Just googled it. Thanks for the tip!

I also got chatGPT to make a script that adds a button under the tag field that submits an oft-used series of tags with a click. Maybe I’ll do a quick tidy tonight and put them on github

Following on what aerozol said, this could be possible, in theory.

Making a script to extract those files would be easy, even if it'd probably end up getting you rate limited due to the sheer amount of recordings that exist.

The problem is that MusicBrainz doesn't store licenses, so you'd have to filter those manually.

So it becomes practically impossible.

You could query by license URL, no?

As in by recordings with a particular license URL relationship?

Yeah, but very few have it.

Sounds like a solvable problem

Good luck solving it

At least the Bandcamp importer adds licence relationships, iirc? So there must be quite a few recordings out there, if you infer it from the album relationship

Doesn't the internet archive auto torrent stuff?

I'd rather have an auto archiver than auto torrent

question: you know those times in the olden days™️ when albums got repackaged and rereleased in slightly different forms, internationally? like.... how different do they have to actually be, to merit a different release group?

Examples? :)

I've been listening and tagging some of my The Church stuff this morning. and spotted that somebody renamed the release group of their first album 'of skins and heart' to just self-titled 'the church', which is what it got released as internationally. and the edit passed since nobody was watching, I guess (which is why I am now subscribed, lol). but it got me wondering.........

so in that case, the sequence was completely redone and few extra tracks from a different recording session were added. on top of the title and artwork change

Ah, one of those

That seems like enough changes that I could see it go both ways

Releasing a server update

I agree, it's so on-the-fence; I lean towards leaving as-is, but if someone felt like splitting off the separate version I wouldn't necessarily vote no either. but as-is I do have an edit in to revert the name back to the original 😛

Release done, btw

Yeah, I think your choice is as good as any

zoedivision[m]: To me, the distinction between release groups is this: If I am not a collector, but I want all the artist’s albums, I want one release from each release group. If there are two releases I will want, then they shouldn’t be in the same release group.

might be a little on the subjective side for some folks, but I do get what you're saying \:)