Development/Seeding/Release Editor
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This page documents a lit of parameters you can post the release editor to "seed" it.
Release data
The following parameters specify data about releases
- name
- The name of the release. Must be a non-empty string.
- comment
- A disambiguation comment for the release. Optional, non empty string
- annotation
- Optional text to place in the releases annotation
- barcode
- The barcode of the release. Optional, valid barcode without whitespace
- date.year
- date.month
- date.day
- The date of the release. Each field is an optional integer
- country
- The country the release was released in. Optional, may be any valid country ISO code (for example, GB, US, FR)
- language
- The language of the release. Optional, may be any valid ISO 639-2T code
- script
- The script of the text on the release. Optional, may be any valid ISO 15924 code (for example, Latn, Brai);
- status
- The status of the release, as defined by MusicBrainz. Optional, may be any of: official, promotion, bootleg, pseudo
- type
- The type of the release group, if a release group will be created. Optional, may be any of: album, single, ep, compilation, soundtrack, spokenword, interview, audiobook, live, remix, other
- packaging
- The type of packaging of the release. Optional, may be any of: jewel-case, slim-jewel-case, digipak, paper-sleeve, other
Labels and catalog numbers
Releases may be associated with multiple labels and catalog numbers, so the fields for specifying these is a little different. You must specify a positive integer for the n part of the field name to specify which label/catalog number pair you are referring to. For example: label.0.mbid and label.0.catalogue_number
- label.n.mbid
- The MBID of the label.
- label.n.catalog_number
- The catalog number of this release, for label n.
Tracklists and Mediums
As with labels above, their may be multiple mediums and tracklists may contain multiple tracks, so again you will need to fill in the n and m parameters accordingly.
- medium.n.format
- Any valid medium format name: may be anyone of auto generate me
- medium.n.position
- The position of this medium in the list of mediums. If ommited, it will be inferred from the order of all mediums passed in (which is normally what you want).
- medium.n.name
- The name of medium n (for example "Live & Unreleased")
- medium.n.track.m.name
- The name of track n on medium m
- medium.n.track.m.duration
- The duration of track n on medium m in
MM:SS
form. You may also pass a single integer, which will be interpreted as seconds (milliseconds?)