https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Jacobbrett&feedformat=atomMusicBrainz Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T10:52:29ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.6https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett&diff=76063User:Jacobbrett2022-11-14T15:33:39Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>==Proposals==<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/Medley Style|RFC-25: Medley Style]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/Release Event Style|RFC-43/64: Release Style]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/Release Groups|RFC-109: Release Groups]]<br />
==Guides==<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/How to Identify Release Details|How to Identify Release Details]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide|English Punctuation Guide]]<br />
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==Resources==<br />
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===Afrikaans===<br />
* [[wikipedia:Afrikaans|Afrikaans - Wikipedia]]<br />
* [http://www.mylanguages.org/afrikaans_articles.php Afrikaans Articles]<br />
* [http://www.albaglobal.com/article-print-1367.html Albaglobal - Language Reference Guide For Afrikaans]<br />
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==To‐do==<br />
* [http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=%22best+buy%22&type=annotation&limit=25&advanced=1 Known releases that should probably have “Best Buy exclusive” as their disambiguation comment]<br />
* ✓ [[User:Jacobbrett/List_of_dead_cover_art_URLs|List of dead cover art URLs]]<br />
* Clean up live recordings linked to [[Release:6ee503eb-0ad2-4209-b794-7d90649b7be5|Rally Round the F.V.K.]]<br />
* Add [http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/69389/janes_addiction_kettle_whistle_1997_retail_cd/back direct marketing JA release]<br />
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{{lang en-native}}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett&diff=73142User:Jacobbrett2018-12-18T00:06:25Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>[http://www.last.fm/user/jacobbrett/ Last.fm]<br />
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==Proposals==<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/Medley Style|RFC-25: Medley Style]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/Release Event Style|RFC-43/64: Release Style]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/Release Groups|RFC-109: Release Groups]]<br />
==Guides==<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/How to Identify Release Details|How to Identify Release Details]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide|English Punctuation Guide]]<br />
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==Resources==<br />
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===Afrikaans===<br />
* [[wikipedia:Afrikaans|Afrikaans - Wikipedia]]<br />
* [http://www.mylanguages.org/afrikaans_articles.php Afrikaans Articles]<br />
* [http://www.albaglobal.com/article-print-1367.html Albaglobal - Language Reference Guide For Afrikaans]<br />
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==To‐do==<br />
* [http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=%22best+buy%22&type=annotation&limit=25&advanced=1 Known releases that should probably have “Best Buy exclusive” as their disambiguation comment]<br />
* ✓ [[User:Jacobbrett/List_of_dead_cover_art_URLs|List of dead cover art URLs]]<br />
* Clean up live recordings linked to [[Release:6ee503eb-0ad2-4209-b794-7d90649b7be5|Rally Round the F.V.K.]]<br />
* Add [http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/69389/janes_addiction_kettle_whistle_1997_retail_cd/back direct marketing JA release]<br />
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{{lang en-native}}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/List_of_dead_cover_art_URLs&diff=73141User:Jacobbrett/List of dead cover art URLs2018-12-18T00:05:56Z<p>Jacobbrett: All items complete</p>
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<div>* ✓ http://liveweb.archive.org/http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r2000/002/Music/59/d2/db/mzi.jifxmfmy.jpg<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/85e98b0e-d5f6-4093-ba2f-df23f305d891 Mejor que el silencio]<br />
*** http://liveweb.archive.org/http://images.coveralia.com/audio/n/Nach-Mejor_Que_El_Silencio-Frontal.jpg ;)<br />
* ✓ http://liveweb.archive.org/http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/099/Music/ff/ca/7a/mzi.bylaxzyu.jpg<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/9f0bd0f3-7dcb-4545-b184-8faa3821aca9 Complete Control Recording Sessions]<br />
* ✓ http://liveweb.archive.org/http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/004/Music/29/80/79/mzi.haacdvmc.jpg<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/03a4fafb-d63e-47b6-b5dd-8080393c610f Banda larga cordel]<br />
* ✓ http://liveweb.archive.org/http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Music/cd/7c/9e/mzi.yngqdqtd.jpg<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/457479cf-d561-480d-aab8-736cf9db6f13 The Greed of Man]<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/aea5e436-ca58-4868-8f78-2aa650dc714d 大時代]<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/150bf905-d027-4995-8bc2-3ae47b7c8c8d 大時代]<br />
* ✓ http://liveweb.archive.org/http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/021/Music/ff/06/99/mzi.trpfmymt.jpg<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/b5d9f060-ed84-42d9-bfd8-68f0b07dae82 A Head Full of Rain & a Heart Full of Puddles]<br />
* ✓ http://liveweb.archive.org/http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/105/Music/32/6f/bc/mzi.uwrijklq.jpg<br />
** [http://musicbrainz.org/release/c0ced5ec-0bbf-4920-ba1d-c30eacec9825 iTunes Live]</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=Releases_With_Pregap_Tracks&diff=66741Releases With Pregap Tracks2014-05-30T14:37:51Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>This page tries to list all releases that have [[Pregap Track|PregapTrack]]s. <br />
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It is recommended to add a [[Release Annotation|ReleaseAnnotation]] with a link to this page to [[Release]]s that have pregap tracks, and also add the release to the list below. <br />
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The reason for this existence of this page is that in the future, when hopefully the system is able to deal with these cases, these tracks can be located easily and edited. <br />
* [[Release:231b4575-fed6-382c-9ba1-ee797a46ea3b|'64-'95]] <br />
* [[Release:09c85e46-1dc3-4c41-90f1-06455ee76c74|11 Richtige]] <br />
* [[Release:1efc5313-fa73-45b3-bc74-6e280bea4100|13]] <br />
* [[Release:b5fd9f17-15d9-4e83-a0ef-77d107f724de|1977]] <br />
* [[Release:c311457e-2614-4474-81f6-656da2b9efd4|9]] <br />
* [[Release:86dda082-3650-4c7a-aeea-b659015affbe|A Case of Mistaken Serenity]]<br />
* [[Release:12e3767d-d674-4150-bc52-9d197c7778c1|A Grand Declaration of War]] (first pressings only)<br />
* [[Release:06ec2d5b-a1de-4eed-9d00-31ddd6b96c32|A Little Deeper]]<br />
* [[Release:05f1eb34-30a4-4348-b3d4-1f1a217dc881|A Midsummer Nice Dream]]<br />
* [[Release:fcafccbc-ae03-3c33-8c96-f6f71e775845|A Place in the Sun]]<br />
* [[Release:10463378-65f8-4a49-8e91-2e12125c1a11|Access Denied]]<br />
* [[Release:5b11bee7-8b1b-47c0-9f9f-579034ac1262|Alcazarized]] <br />
* [[Release:fca1d3b3-8686-4987-b6ed-bc3d6957051b|Alice & June]]<br />
* [[Release:a78a4862-6909-48c1-b463-cffcdd8c246c|All the Hype That Money Can Buy]]<br />
* All Things Strange and Rare: [[Release:7716c7fd-54c9-34cd-bfee-d71e48f3f493|US release]], [[Release:be502da9-d749-442a-86ca-b05e9e383d9c|UK release]]<br />
* [[Release:6eda99d4-b9b6-4224-9b38-0d24aeb0e440|Altered States of America]] <br />
* [[Release:247313af-48e9-4dc3-a586-e7ca5d265ad9|Am Ende der Sonne]]<br />
* [[Release:35dc1b27-c336-452c-85f3-5c4a6a3f95a0|Angel Milk]]<br />
* [[Release:3be15b0e-9044-3e82-82b3-43860247d6f7|Angels and Daemons at Play]]<br />
* [[Release:f69b20fe-bc1a-3524-8d5b-d3f10a1f0071|Any Minute Now]]<br />
* [[Release:0447d18c-844d-4570-b1fd-926cbb37c10f|As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Part 2]] <br />
* [[Release:f078cebb-fb0b-4180-8a7c-1ae4972b44a8|As Long as You Want This]] <br />
* [[Release:368cdea8-6d9b-415f-b943-e7f1e35aeee7|Astronomy for Dogs]] <br />
* [[Release:242c4fdb-4710-4209-a196-a23d1a7f1bf5|Auto]] <br />
* [[Release:9048f407-b9d9-44b9-a825-16598eaef258|Bagsy Me]]<br />
* [[Release:f3c2fb0d-81ef-41f6-a075-babe6597fd5a|Balmy Under the Stormy]]<br />
* [[Release:708d3f34-d189-4f0b-aaa9-f62dd6a5399a|Bang Bang Rock & Roll]]<br />
* [[Release:8c368742-ab45-45c4-aa7f-f621fb9c11b5|Bang Camaro]]<br />
* [[Release:b8461941-ba34-4146-89c8-a0571483db84|Best Kept Secrets: The Best of Lamb 1996-2004]]<br />
* [[Release:3a806acf-87a5-43c8-85a6-6e4f850bc2d8|Black Light District]]<br />
* [[Release:328eb88a-9ede-4ae5-a7af-ea99424fa6ff|Blissard]]<br />
* [[Release:e1a847d2-659f-4de5-b6ff-4ba25ba75db1|Blue Cave]]<br />
* [[Release:99e39642-cae5-4061-9800-751108bc650b|Blumenkraft]]<br />
* [[Release:9e6fee23-b0c8-4aad-b3be-febea01f37ec|Burn]]<br />
* [[Release:e2ebccc8-6514-4a21-b955-e5988e832971|Cedars]] <br />
* [[Release:41e839a7-2d11-497d-bba1-8df8fcaed69f|Cedars]]<br />
* [[Release:1b9a1051-66ad-4d62-8257-ccab61682319|Cellular Memory]]<br />
* [[Release:43858436-4b19-4581-91c7-bab20115d3f8|Chaos Sessions]]<br />
* [[Release:11465bf8-4b1a-4bbf-b062-9445ffc34674|Chaos Total]]<br />
* [[Release:d1a77bdf-11fa-4ed5-90ba-569485fe16b8|“Charlie”]]<br />
* [[Release:3903acf6-abdc-4a93-b7d8-ba51800da55f|Cheap Trick]]<br />
* [[Release:03c07829-287f-4d19-971d-4b2061bb9214|Cherubs]]<br />
* [[Release:0aaac20a-4b27-49b8-9a6d-577913e9495f|Coat of Many Cupboards]]<br />
* [[Release:ebbbcbf2-1699-4ccc-a4da-5304adddf190|Code B]]<br />
* [[Release:4495b9fe-7d63-4a3c-8f8a-3b260f925bfd|Comfortable]]<br />
* [[Release:850acf70-7c50-453f-a62c-dfd135c56a1f|Committed to a Bright Future]]<br />
* [[Release:b1374cc9-4e6f-4ec8-9902-84ae1430d0a6|Conjure One]] <br />
* [[Release:1c07a559-c9c1-474b-8ea7-996b0bf84e5b|Corydon & Manjrekar]]<br />
* [[Release:d4e57f20-a2ff-465d-8322-bafa1878e4db|Crasis]]<br />
* [[Release:ed7ac2e8-79f6-4b24-bb5f-c186ae628497|D.F.F.]]<br />
* [[Release:bbdb139d-13c8-4327-914e-8ada7bf09b17|Dandelion Gum]]<br />
* [[Release:08397059-86c1-463b-8ed0-cd596dbd174f|Das Capital: The Songwriting Genius of Luke Haines and The Auteurs]] <br />
* [[Release:3ee4c92c-258f-4308-b7f9-c80c4c7dbdaa|Dead Weather Machine]] <br />
* [[Release:b6c0f1d8-cb53-425d-bd10-c19a3ea5c309|Deadly wiz da Disko]]<br />
* [[Release:89eaa471-57ea-44e5-8c51-5267f56c795e|decemberunderground]]<br />
* [[Release:1a4bf6ba-05d8-4e62-ba26-aa3c1b1dcfd7|Demonic Art]]<br />
* [[Release:a34c93d9-e04e-46f0-aa96-75626268d466|Die Wunderwelt der Technik]] <br />
* [[Release:d28bc892-d1bc-49d6-b1a4-4b00c484e34c|Different Skin]]<br />
* [[Release:290aa602-c4c3-4a64-a1fa-3681ea2dc503|Dopes to Infinity]] (possibly)<br />
* [[Release:d62fbbcf-3663-41c2-91b9-72ebf75f2ac9|Drop It ’til It Pops]]<br />
* [[Release:7392a0a2-8f39-4bdb-93db-54da6021b08c|Dusk and Summer]]<br />
* [[Release:aa952d9f-2b0d-4421-ac95-d23d454ab596|Embrya]]<br />
* [[Release:b3e4f054-4ace-4d95-9048-ada5b19e29a4|Empty]]<br />
* [[Release:daf4c063-8d97-4829-adfc-d129887fc7fa|En Garde]]<br />
* [[Release:b93a3701-e7d1-44cb-add2-51078958ed1d|Entangled in Chaos]]<br />
* [[Release:9e632625-2a92-4bf9-92f2-b5450e811c12|EP7]] <br />
* [[Release:188d704b-678d-499d-b488-516a7247cc01|Everyone Into Position]]<br />
* [[Release:884580e6-5d30-414b-bfc3-c949fb5ef856|Extra•Ordinary]]<br />
* [[Release:f43eef54-5f5d-4c91-a3b3-c3f749bf4203|Exzessexpress]]<br />
* [[Release:451c2419-a24d-4ccb-a886-62acf3a369af|Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True]]<br />
* [[Release:a62fbbbb-e50e-4c55-abd8-89f28b0b2477|Factory Showroom]] <br />
* [[Release:b0b89276-6f41-4113-b3ef-573c44621d88|Fade to What]]<br />
* [[Release:26ce5c3b-0700-4306-8376-aec74f93b6ce|Fastlane People]]<br />
* [[Release:a4069636-66aa-4316-9138-05ee56318d9f|Fear of Fours]] <br />
* [[Release:5aa4156f-94b8-4543-9669-c4ca39665322|Fear of Fours]]<br />
* [[Release:e9416c48-fa61-47f0-bb60-9214b449cadc|Feast of Wire]]<br />
* [[Release:268caa94-9817-451d-b61e-243154d5a6d4|FINAL FANTASY VII Reunion Tracks]]<br />
* [[Release:9b30a290-6ab4-4cb0-bc69-5081b312c849|Flesh and Bone]]<br />
* [[Release:936b81b8-d02c-4241-a1c2-a4391a5a49d7|Folie à Deux]]<br />
* [[Release:785e3525-97f3-4c09-a503-328871262feb|Forget and Not Slow Down]]<br />
* [[Release:1bdae9a8-1c33-310b-9f7a-a03bf9b24f66|Fortress]]<br />
* [[Release:9f57b8d7-dc17-46d3-8b0f-e9a8b8095316|Friction, Baby]] <br />
* [[Release:31da3660-38f6-4b9c-a9b3-9e5fa5af3ca6|Fritz Hitz, Volume 0,5]]<br />
* [[Release:6f61d702-31f8-441b-aa14-90f21cad04ff|FYULABA]]<br />
* [[Release:2d94dfd1-78c0-4379-a4d4-7b51362f00c0|Geendagsvlieg]] <br />
* [[Release:b9a26e4e-7136-47a4-a39e-94621aa91407|Genozid]] <br />
* [[Release:e6f8f4d8-851c-4f6f-b611-71fa97f9dd5c|Geräusch (disc 1: Schwarzes Geräusch)]]<br />
* [[Release:6f9fedf4-ffe5-4f04-978b-6bcce9f4eaf9|Glide]]<br />
* [[Release:2d41f2db-27fe-4bd8-af53-2f1a29435276|Grain de sable]]<br />
* [[Release:772857ca-fdb6-4cf6-8130-e2072e6527e2|Greatest Hits]]<br />
* [[Release:245a092d-c145-3e59-bd74-215a18e2cc24|Guarapero: Lost Blues 2]]<br />
* [[Release:72d15490-bdc3-4c97-93ae-3e5235df876e|Guerrilla]]<br />
* [[Release:4e4523bd-c035-4f79-a031-9055e06970fb|Half the World Is Watching Me]]<br />
* [[Release:a4447102-e4cc-4a70-9d48-2f88c434b3ca|HEAVEN 〜THE CUSTOMIZED LANDSCAPE〜]]<br />
* [[Release:4065e091-8b8b-4b3d-8369-19ae411b65ee|Hell or High Water]]<br />
* [[Release:0a9890fc-6c27-4414-832f-901d81c3fa4f|Hideout]]<br />
* [[Release:2e9b595a-5a6a-4b22-ab51-47a858f4a5f4|Highway of Life]]<br />
* [[Release:26168b38-8274-4be8-afa3-9bec90c58e67|HK119]]<br />
* [[Release:8e789b3d-f480-4601-b1c5-83b458a6631b|HoboSapiens]] <br />
* [[Release:9592b463-3623-42ca-a7df-ace30544d7b8|Hullabaloo Soundtrack (disc 2)]]<br />
* [[Release:c1d4b23d-9e3a-4709-a767-7e3ed63c688e|I Am Kloot]]<br />
* [[Release:c225674c-3df6-4c02-8b28-c53a2f6472ef|I Choose Noise]]<br />
* [[Release:946c64e2-94b9-4516-b488-2ec6055b1611|I Sincerely Apologize for All the Trouble I’ve Caused]]<br />
* [[Release:d04544be-f7fd-450f-8be7-15272dfed735|Ideas and Oh Dears]]<br />
* [[Release:d73e4ff8-99ad-44bd-b9bf-b0a2a17160ca|INCredible Sound of Gilles Peterson]]<br />
* [[Release:e707d7b9-6e26-49ad-8a4a-5ed20200de2f|Initiation]] <br />
* [[Release:b697c39d-21f1-471b-88c5-3cf4335c3d7a|It’s Fun to Steal]]<br />
* [[Release:0cca4fe0-372e-4c44-9168-ab5433d42895|IV]] <br />
* [[Release:f5306f6d-a9da-4c1c-9f1a-2b3b886450b7|Jazz ist anders (bonus disc)]] <br />
* [[Release:a7fae0ba-4afe-4876-842f-6c1772779bfe|Kingsize]] <br />
* [[Release:714ead9d-be1e-435e-9c33-2befc9fd1b57|La De Da]]<br />
* [[Release:641293ff-c29e-483c-8f79-b07eab011344|La masquerade infernale]]<br />
* [[Release:83907cef-6069-4007-a70a-9d150bef7193|Lapsimetallin Kuninkaat]]<br />
* [[Release:323eb766-b34b-4627-8bca-5acc11745d39|Last Epic]]<br />
* [[Release:f679c0d4-2517-4917-86a9-24e66a9574fb|LateNightTales: Sly & Robbie]]<br />
* [[Release:f8cffec5-f49e-45e4-b829-9df0af3b3b61|Leave the Story Untold]]<br />
* [[Release:3788553b-460f-4e81-bf00-3d7c1b613882|Left Foot, Right Foot]] <br />
* [[Release:72a39b1b-d97f-425d-8c2c-8a4d894cb804|Lemodie]] <br />
* [[Release:2e738e75-ee43-40e3-baa0-c05bf18a9b97|Letters in the Dirt]]<br />
* [[Release:8aca35a4-bc61-4f66-b368-4b2586c45c87|Light Years]]<br />
* [[Release:b3c198a3-9b5d-43c3-9046-bb1e50c91046|Little Worlds]]<br />
* [[Release:4cb6ec2b-9e1e-4dfb-bebc-751c26252b70|Live at Amoeba Music]]<br />
* [[Release:a007e83c-a577-4f90-92fb-42519ca9665e|Live at the Apollo, Volume II]] (deluxe edition)<br />
* [[Release:5314b8e2-7430-48c4-9efb-ba6a1b354390|Live aus Berlin (disc 1)]]<br />
* [[Release:9bc4688e-2268-4765-9d1c-f7c7d621304c|Losing Streak]] <br />
* [[Release:153a6831-b7a1-4936-9941-34f88f050ea1|Love Era / Irony]]<br />
* [[Release:9b6614e6-c4d8-4335-960d-af38059d7517|Memento Mori]] <br />
* [[Release:db4d5128-f065-4938-8161-c50cf64b6f05|Mickey Mouse Operation]] <br />
* [[Release:9df5f718-9f20-4628-a1b3-f27c0b1af84f|Minerals Series, Volume 4]] <br />
* [[Release:dbd2b322-3664-40e7-b2ca-e7d8e7f29925|Minerals Series, Volume 10]] <br />
* [[Release:f0d7c62a-8b19-4fa5-9ab9-04cab8e1f942|Mistrust the Angels]]<br />
* [[Release:0643e593-4e93-4dd3-a048-6b297da73a67|Mmhmm]]<br />
* [[Release:9b0d1526-8236-40ce-bcae-18f738f300f3|Moments 1]]<br />
* [[Release:d78c0a8a-d188-4428-bf2d-9e694b363e28|Moments... 1 (disc 1: Green)]]<br />
* [[Release:b886b675-f05a-4f52-a093-feb967c0a0d1|Monomania]]<br />
* [[Release:aa309cbb-e96e-49e1-8a99-366458e436cc|Morbid Florist]]<br />
* [[Release:735c3912-b9dd-42a2-af44-f4f6d25fe6f4|Morning Sci-Fi]]<br />
* [[Release:3d84e4e0-2044-4ca4-8cd2-1d759331857d|Most of the remixes we’ve made over the years except for the one for Einstürzende Neubauten because we lost it and a few we didn’t think sounded good enough or just didn't fit in length-wise, but including some that are hard to find because either people forgot about them or just simply because they haven't been released yet, a few we really love, one we think is just ok, some we did for free, some we did for money, some just for ourselves without permission and some for friends as swaps but never on time and always at our studio in Ghent.]]<br />
* [[Release:d939579c-cd40-4dd7-8927-8030f7932cbc|Much Against Everyone’s Advice]]<br />
* [[Release:3da49a7e-5964-3870-ad9c-00e1fa81e852|Murmur (2008 deluxe edition)]]<br />
* [[Release:82aa05ab-79af-471a-9327-557e37aabb19|Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age]] <br />
* [[Release:60243dc3-0476-4df1-a196-23e857597349|My Truth]]<br />
* [[Release:a2fa97c4-09ba-4c74-9586-e90cb6bfd31b|Negative B]]<br />
* [[Release:03840dc1-a83e-3b51-81b6-dafb53fc1823|Never, Never, Land]]<br />
* [[Release:561ef915-9383-40ec-9baf-f9c55d1ddf72|Neveroddoreven: Remodeled]]<br />
* [[Release:ae39aa8d-3955-412f-8801-fd57b624ed8b|Nite Versions]]<br />
* [[Release:f2b724fc-e4ba-4f1c-8061-99764aeb6926|North Avenue Wake Up Call]]<br />
* [[Release:17351b13-de21-4ef5-b6f7-2b796e1cc4ab|Noisy Pipes Lovely Noises]]<br />
* [[Release:eb194d7d-880c-45b2-8bf1-778b12284400|Novo Atlantis]]<br />
* [[Release:172f3a8c-1cf6-4d5e-947a-9d00aa290c11|O’ God, the Aftermath]]<br />
* [[Release:9c12794e-79df-4be1-997e-ad100efe8b08|Octavarium]]<br />
* [[Release:c2f74901-29aa-4398-bcaf-6d72b4d53f2a|Of Someday Shambles]]<br />
* [[Release:a81c7156-9f3e-416f-bf0c-d31a25281c5b|OK Cowboy]]<br />
* [[Release:a62ce347-b093-4be5-a74a-31d89c3a7ede|Old Blood]]<br />
* [[Release:44e42ad8-e9b5-4e28-80d8-f14007c6fef8|Open Season]]<br />
* [[Release:cc452ead-f18b-4f86-9e24-abc689bc5595|Or 8?]]<br />
* [[Release:6d782346-7f35-4813-8b9e-b1799fdc1eab|Origin]] (first pressings only) <br />
* [[Release:a6ec1384-1329-38cc-9fff-2f6b49e84cd8|Out Spaced]]<br />
* [[Release:2b45556b-17c2-4567-9d1c-16ebb6bbec9f|Pajo]]<br />
* [[Release:67d7d90c-6202-43b8-aa81-b7db38d922b7|PCP Tornado / ANbRX]]<br />
* [[Release:dedb13e1-d41b-4443-b11a-37af9787bd76|Pink Lemonade]]<br />
* [[Release:5d4f6926-78e4-4d4f-a239-7f22141ce7e7|Plectrist]]<br />
* [[Release:cf9ba99d-70e0-44fa-9ce5-fceff02b508b|Polarity]]<br />
* [[Release:4f832caf-7f82-406f-a469-27eb5fb98d20|Poligono Industrial]]<br />
* [[Release:23b29e02-29c4-4fbb-ad48-14ed7d90af5f|Post Mortal Archives]] (first pressing only)<br />
* [[Release:cd2aff88-c155-47fa-b7a6-e5a51102d74e|Prhizzm EP]] <br />
* [[Release:e0482b79-5c78-46ad-97e3-2f44a08e6c73|Psyence Fiction]]<br />
* [[Release:7bcf4051-cb27-42e0-b944-73c725a90851|Rebel Extravaganza]]<br />
* [[Release:208945ce-ad5a-4f7b-bf0c-76ea2439e535|Reckoning (2009 deluxe edition)]]<br />
* [[Release:51860ecf-56cb-4c82-b7f1-dec80ebf5165|Reflektor]]<br />
* [[Release:a1996c13-5855-40e7-886e-21ee17bea0ec|Reise, Reise]]<br />
* [[Release:90461d6f-5c9a-446b-ba77-a0203b908e67|Relocated]]<br />
* [[Release:229682c7-993d-4b78-81ca-56be3db2405b|Remixed]] <br />
* [[Release:6d9b3fa5-4dcd-4b64-be17-5a7497e60668|Repetitive Movement]] <br />
* [[Release:fe53a070-7215-4c29-adc0-0459918b0545|Resist Education]]<br />
* [[Release:3418e4f8-fedf-45ee-9adc-855c0f711fc4|Ringodom or Proctor]]<br />
* [[Release:1bd28926-9117-4438-81b8-899fe46395e5|Rockabilly Mission]]<br />
* [[Release:d59557f5-0385-498c-a299-217eaacb68e3|Room on the 3rd Floor]]<br />
* [[Release:2d19f491-479b-4723-a536-339c86919be5|Root Down]]<br />
* [[Release:a98a744a-60b7-4d46-b609-991079d9b5c1|Rural Free Delivery]]<br />
* [[Release:7c8caad1-adbb-4ed0-bf08-d728975231ed|Safe as Fuck]]<br />
* [[Release:ba1062ea-4f30-4faf-82a6-2cc20fdfa5d7|SaGa Frontier]]<br />
* [[Release:c2889247-f97b-4445-9f9c-edb8430a6f75|Salvaging What’s Left]]<br />
* [[Release:1a395ad5-a6f7-4679-96b6-d62d87f503df|Scatter]]<br />
* [[Release:b7df14fc-81c2-45ef-9ace-d3f4d074fcb6|Silent Alarm]]<br />
* [[Release:5c9d31cf-a7a2-404e-b6bd-5a1508d27d2e|Sea of Cowards]]<br />
* [[Release:cc3ebe4a-f596-4f74-b684-69054a0fa453|See You on the Other Side]] (later pressings only)<br />
* [[Release:821a9ec3-7ecb-408d-9401-8558efc19987|Sensor]]<br />
* [[Release:6e5293e4-916d-39bf-a379-1fe78910386a|Shut Your Mouth]]<br />
* [[Release:d65d4c47-c14f-4e4b-b9fa-303bdec4deef|Singularity]]<br />
* [[Release:72474258-4325-42cb-972c-f428a114e2db|Skyscraper National Park]]<br />
* [[Release:4ae5d6c8-c929-48a0-864e-ea13019c5b72|Slow Motion Addict]]<br />
* [[Release:e373d35c-703f-429d-b457-c24f5c42372f|Somewhere Between the Train Station and the Dumping Grounds]]<br />
* [[Release:fcab9987-1ce3-4a84-aa5b-3dc18eda292d|Sommernachtskonzerte 2010: Aus dem Leben eines Barden (disc 1)]]<br />
* [[Release:c5729b32-d992-4283-9d86-d38bcb814a14|Songs for the Deaf]]<br />
* [[ReleaseGroup:03331848-c231-3f92-86fc-4934838c9230|Songs in the Key of X: Music From and Inspired by the X-Files]] <br />
* [[Release:8344dc52-4344-42d9-a74f-ff9b2ca41652|Sounds Within]] <br />
* [[Release:41caaa9f-a898-41d6-a9c9-f6898d82bbc8|Soup]]<br />
* [[Release:82294e17-0cd8-48f6-ab9a-69b519eb8080|Souvenirs]]<br />
* [[Release:858ceb27-1fc4-49dc-b864-607e38a89903|Stars & Guitars]]<br />
* [[Release:5583c461-5a3d-41fe-9740-06711584043f|Static Traps]] <br />
* [[Release:9618e7b9-3137-46ef-bf5a-764dd1844218|Stoosh]]<br />
* [[Release:4521662f-8256-4363-bb00-fc56fe351ed4|Sweet England]]<br />
* [[Release:72dcae5f-ebad-4fe1-8d39-ba76e5ffbd34|Symbolic Language]]<br />
* [[Release:|Take Them On, on Your Own]]<br />
* [[Release:31e88220-0d7d-4620-896b-10475861f3a0|The Black Halo]]<br />
* [[Release:4032babb-87e5-4cc9-a1cd-892ff49d327b|The Bright Spot]]<br />
* [[Release:311a0712-7212-42d1-8c01-208336fcb37d|The Butcher’s Ballroom]]<br />
* [[Release:fa2abd91-f698-4935-980b-9a7f55444899|The Calling]]<br />
* [[Release:819b2aa4-968e-4b60-8e1d-1e3f57f17347|The Carnegie Hall Performance]] (disc 1)<br />
* [[Release:e74850d0-6106-4941-b984-deef8cd1b7bc|The Colour of Snow]]<br />
* [[Release:4591a2e7-abad-4c8c-a717-8b61cb461cc2|The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me]]<br />
* [[Release:793bf070-9cbd-4113-9991-8c2e780370f3|The Dreamlife of Angels]]<br />
* [[Release:89cbdd58-4f99-46a1-9f25-1eb67a476a2e|The Folks Below]]<br />
* [[Release:79549e35-3ec5-42c9-9d9f-3b51d48ce19d|The Freedom Spark]]<br />
* [[Release:650ae81b-89d2-46cf-a3f6-be34046a7303|The Hard Road]] <br />
* [[Release:95378b36-1305-4bee-b4b8-621b6e7849b9|The Haunting Curse of Skogs-Sara]] <br />
* [[Release:36b44ff9-a809-446a-94bd-fb85999d5d5d|The Kelly Sessions]] <br />
* [[Release:961d0582-5075-4640-9d00-a7c38b04cea8|The Locust]]<br />
* [[Release:f595ba15-5b13-45bc-9d71-ec4780cd2314|The Music]]<br />
* [[Release:f5871a47-421b-412b-8a92-9003199c8878|The Red Tree]]<br />
* [[Release:d9ae238a-f69b-4c63-b31d-e0dde17f409c|The Silja Symphony]] <br />
* [[Release:5ee6705e-2fe1-47ce-9103-9a75c48920b6|The Silver Creature]]<br />
* [[Release:141746e2-daf5-47ff-b4c0-e794b6a33900|The Ugly People vs. The Beautiful People]]<br />
* [[Release:008be9e8-af13-39dd-b3ae-be7836e7678e|The Wait]]<br />
* [[Release:f00d9bcc-5e26-491f-b52a-dca1e2d1fbb2|The Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth... (disc 1)]]<br />
* [[Release:3cc2059b-180c-3a6f-bb31-1b3507217578|The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation]]<br />
* [[Release:59cc5068-42a1-4ede-b8dd-db3900ff1b19|Things Change While Helium Listen to Everyone]] <br />
* [[Release:ac32c0c5-4c83-4601-b232-74a723778fa1|Think Tank]]<br />
* [[Release:6c97f0c8-0ab0-4e0e-ac82-ee182cb6ece6|This Is Your Life]]<br />
* [[Release:47ad26d8-0c47-4448-9648-efd4025fd92a|Time Capsule]]<br />
* [[Release:cd54c4e4-09d1-4b4e-aaa4-d3708861f26e|To Hell With You, I’ll Make My Own People]]<br />
* [[Release:ac190229-615f-4bee-8733-cd9718834273|Tobias Thomas: Für Dich]]<br />
* [[Release:19a328c3-3aa4-492b-980a-fbc82a6d3f1f|Too Far Gone]]<br />
* [[Release:5407adc7-55e8-4aff-b4aa-8d58935822b7|Transistor]]<br />
* [[Release:7b056c9e-24bc-495a-bff1-9ecbe25c3a5a|Twin Peaks: Season Two Music and More]]<br />
* [[Release:8832fd92-ef0f-4b01-b6ba-45ede08fbe5e|Twisted Willie]]<br />
* [[Release:6528036a-fff4-4369-afc3-cc42d4c3d6b0|Uchel001]]<br />
* [[Release:d8bf2d68-87ae-4ce7-93eb-ca39a7dfac4a|Untitled]]<br />
* [[Release:12bada7c-c5a1-4aea-a1df-b70a50a99c2e|Ut ur diskot och in i verkligheten]] <br />
* [[Release:b6efe4ec-bcfe-4ecc-98c8-a0878b304300|Various Films]] <br />
* [[Release:8cc2fd17-67d4-4d98-9df1-115d93fbc31e|Very Proud of Ya]] <br />
* [[Release:0821d476-ce35-4316-be16-26113797e56f|Volle Kraft Null Acht]]<br />
* [[Release:28cf5775-e922-4676-accf-3f53d41f21d1|Wake Up, O Sleeper]]<br />
* [[Release:c26252ef-a9da-4109-92dd-cf92e65ed425|War on Plastic Plants]]<br />
* [[Release:45d0a92b-807b-486b-897c-5cc7e8184e20|We Are Serious]]<br />
* [[Release:7d1db442-c07a-4b25-90ca-aa2386b7a78b|Welcome to Diverse City]]<br />
* [[Release:c89c592c-448a-4d33-94b5-78d98bb43f6d|Welcome to Loserville]]<br />
* [[Release:59177adf-8c6b-4c99-93d5-dfbbe434153e|What to Do When You Are Dead]]<br />
* [[Release:333bb82e-3441-43c7-8465-d85a3e5b0a91|Whatever and Ever Amen]]<br />
* [[Release:8afb56a5-67ea-467c-8042-219134a09214|White Ladder]] <br />
* [[Release:dcaa57d3-fd8f-4f37-b240-dcbeb23b583d|Whysall Lane]]<br />
* [[Release:289f98ea-69df-40fc-8972-8fea9a28f32b|Wide Open]]<br />
* [[Release:3697bf78-a281-4e6d-84bc-0f2a3b57926e|You’re Awful, I Love You]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Metadata]] [[Category:Community Project]]</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=65681User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2014-03-04T08:49:48Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>==Cover Art==<br />
See also: [[User:Nikki/CAA]]<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [https://bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]: http://f0.bcbits.com/img/<artwork ID>_0.jpg (Be sure to use the “0” suffix to get the original image; suffix “10” is capped to 1200px square and is recompressed, regardless of resolution)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant. Usually available at 600px or 1200px (beware of upscaling at 1200px))<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* [http://www.target.com/ Target]: http://target.scene7.com/is/image//Target/<artwork_ID>?scl=1&qlt=100 (scl=1 will get the original resolution, up to 2000×2000px; qlt=100 requests the lowest possible JPEG compression. See also: [http://crc.scene7.com/is-docs/pages/HTTP-Protocol-Reference.htm Adobe Scene7 Image Serving HTTP reference document])<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=64486User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-09-26T15:25:36Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [https://bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]: http://f0.bcbits.com/img/<artwork ID>_0.jpg (Be sure to use the “0” suffix to get the original image; suffix “10” is capped to 1200px square and is recompressed, regardless of resolution)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant. Usually available at 600px or 1200px (beware of upscaling at 1200px))<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* [http://www.target.com/ Target]: http://target.scene7.com/is/image//Target/<artwork_ID>?scl=1&qlt=100 (scl=1 will get the original resolution, up to 2000×2000px; qlt=100 requests the lowest possible JPEG compression. See also: [http://crc.scene7.com/is-docs/pages/HTTP-Protocol-Reference.htm Adobe Scene7 Image Serving HTTP reference document])<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide&diff=63998User:Jacobbrett/English Punctuation Guide2013-07-29T05:37:25Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|+Preferred Unicode characters for English punctuation<br />
! colspan="2" |Preferred<br />
!Usage<br />
! colspan="2" |Deprecates<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‐<br />
|[[wikipedia:Hyphen|Hyphen]]<br />
|Joins words and syllables of a word (e.g. co‐operate).<br />
| rowspan="4" |-<br />
| rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]]<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‒<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Figure dash|Figure Dash]]<br />
|Used as a dash within numbers (e.g. 555‒1212).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|– <br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#En dash|En Dash]]<br />
|Indicates a range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|−<br />
|[[wikipedia:Plus and minus signs#Minus sign|Minus sign]]<br />
|Indicates subtraction.<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|—<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Em dash|Em Dash]]<br />
|Separate thoughts—like this.<br />
|rowspan="2" |--<br />
|rowspan="2" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]] ×2<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|―<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal_bar|Horizontal bar]] aka [[wikipedia:Non-English usage of quotation marks#Quotation dash|Quotation dash]]<br />
|Introduces quoted text in some cases (non‐standard for English dialect).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‘<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left single quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="3" |'<br />
|rowspan="3" |[[wikipedia:Apostrophe#ASCII encoding|Apostrophe]]<br />
|-<br />
|’<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right single quotation mark]]<br />[[wikipedia:Apostrophe|Apostrophe]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text, or omitted characters.<br />
|-<br />
|′<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Prime]]<br />
|Minutes; feet<br />
|-<br />
|“<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="4" |"<br />
|rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Quotation mark]]<br />
|-<br />
|”<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text.<br />
|-<br />
|″<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Double prime]]<br />
|Seconds; inches<br />
|-<br />
|〃<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ditto mark|Ditto mark]]<br />
|Indicates that the word(s) or figure(s) below which it is placed are to be repeated.<br />
|-<br />
|…<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ellipsis|Horizontal ellipsis]]<br />
|Indicates intentional omission in original text…or a pause in speech or thought.<br />
|...<br />
|[[wikipedia:Full stop|Full stop]] ×3<br />
|-<br />
|×<br />
|[[wikipedia:Multiplication|Multiplication]]<br />
|Indicates a multiplication operation.<br />
|x<br />
|(the letter ‘[[wikipedia:X|X]]’) when used to indicate multiplication<br />
|-<br />
|⁄<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Fraction slash]]<br />
|Indicates arbitrary fractions of decimal numbers (e.g. 15⁄16). Hardcoded fractions: ¼, ½, ¾, ⅐, ⅑, ⅒, ⅓, ⅔, ⅕, ⅖, ⅗, ⅘, ⅙, ⅚, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞, ⅟ and ↉.<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|-<br />
|∕<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Division slash]]<br />
|Indicates a division operation (e.g. 3.14∕2n).<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide&diff=63997User:Jacobbrett/English Punctuation Guide2013-07-29T05:35:08Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|+Preferred Unicode characters for English punctuation<br />
! colspan="2" |Preferred<br />
!Usage<br />
! colspan="2" |Deprecates<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‐<br />
|[[wikipedia:Hyphen|Hyphen]]<br />
|Joins words and syllables of a word (e.g. co‐operate).<br />
| rowspan="4" |-<br />
| rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]]<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‒<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Figure dash|Figure Dash]]<br />
|used as a dash within numbers (e.g. 555‒1212).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|– <br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#En dash|En Dash]]<br />
|Separate range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|−<br />
|[[wikipedia:Plus and minus signs#Minus sign|Minus sign]]<br />
|Indicates subtraction.<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|—<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Em dash|Em Dash]]<br />
|Separate thoughts—like this.<br />
|rowspan="2" |--<br />
|rowspan="2" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]] ×2<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|―<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal_bar|Horizontal bar]] aka [[wikipedia:Non-English usage of quotation marks#Quotation dash|Quotation dash]]<br />
|Introduces quoted text in some cases (non‐standard for English dialect).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‘<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left single quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="3" |'<br />
|rowspan="3" |[[wikipedia:Apostrophe#ASCII encoding|Apostrophe]]<br />
|-<br />
|’<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right single quotation mark]]<br />[[wikipedia:Apostrophe|Apostrophe]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text, or omitted characters.<br />
|-<br />
|′<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Prime]]<br />
|Minutes; feet<br />
|-<br />
|“<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="4" |"<br />
|rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Quotation mark]]<br />
|-<br />
|”<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text.<br />
|-<br />
|″<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Double prime]]<br />
|Seconds; inches<br />
|-<br />
|〃<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ditto mark|Ditto mark]]<br />
|Indicates that the word(s) or figure(s) below which it is placed are to be repeated.<br />
|-<br />
|…<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ellipsis|Horizontal ellipsis]]<br />
|Indicates intentional omission in original text…or a pause in speech or thought.<br />
|...<br />
|[[wikipedia:Full stop|Full stop]] ×3<br />
|-<br />
|×<br />
|[[wikipedia:Multiplication|Multiplication]]<br />
|Indicate multiplication operation.<br />
|x<br />
|(the letter ‘[[wikipedia:X|X]]’) when used to indicate multiplication<br />
|-<br />
|⁄<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Fraction slash]]<br />
|Indicate arbitrary fractions of decimal numbers (e.g. 15⁄16). Hardcoded fractions: ¼, ½, ¾, ⅐, ⅑, ⅒, ⅓, ⅔, ⅕, ⅖, ⅗, ⅘, ⅙, ⅚, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞, ⅟ and ↉.<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|-<br />
|∕<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Division slash]]<br />
|Indicate a division operation (e.g. 3.14∕2n).<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide&diff=63995User:Jacobbrett/English Punctuation Guide2013-07-28T14:06:29Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|+Preferred Unicode characters for English punctuation<br />
! colspan="2" |Preferred<br />
!Usage<br />
! colspan="2" |Deprecates<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‐<br />
|[[wikipedia:Hyphen|Hyphen]]<br />
|Joins words and syllables of a word (e.g. co‐operate).<br />
| rowspan="4" |-<br />
| rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]]<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‒<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Figure dash|Figure Dash]]<br />
|used as a dash within numbers (e.g. 555‒1212).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|– <br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#En dash|En Dash]]<br />
|Separate range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|−<br />
|[[wikipedia:Plus and minus signs#Minus sign|Minus sign]]<br />
|Indicates subtraction.<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|—<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Em dash|Em Dash]]<br />
|Separate thoughts—like this.<br />
|rowspan="2" |--<br />
|rowspan="2" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]] ×2<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|―<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal_bar|Horizontal bar]] aka [[wikipedia:Non-English usage of quotation marks#Quotation dash|Quotation dash]]<br />
|Introduces quoted text in some cases (non‐standard for English dialect).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‘<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left single quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="3" |'<br />
|rowspan="3" |[[wikipedia:Apostrophe#ASCII encoding|Apostrophe]]<br />
|-<br />
|’<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right single quotation mark]]<br />[[wikipedia:Apostrophe|Apostrophe]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text, or omitted characters.<br />
|-<br />
|′<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Prime]]<br />
|Minutes; feet<br />
|-<br />
|“<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="4" |"<br />
|rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Quotation mark]]<br />
|-<br />
|”<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text.<br />
|-<br />
|″<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Double prime]]<br />
|Seconds; inches<br />
|-<br />
|〃<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ditto mark|Ditto mark]]<br />
|Indicates that the word(s) or figure(s) below which it is placed are to be repeated.<br />
|-<br />
|…<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ellipsis|Horizontal ellipsis]]<br />
|Indicates intentional omission in original text…or a pause in speech or thought.<br />
|...<br />
|[[wikipedia:Full stop|Full stop]] ×3<br />
|-<br />
|×<br />
|[[wikipedia:Multiplication|Multiplication]]<br />
|Indicate multiplication operation.<br />
|x<br />
|(the letter ‘[[wikipedia:X|X]]’) when used to indicate multiplication<br />
|-<br />
|⁄<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Fraction slash]]<br />
|Indicate arbitrary fractions of decimal numbers (e.g. 15⁄16). Hardcoded fractions: ¼, ½, ¾, ⅐, ⅑, ⅒, ⅓, ⅔, ⅕, ⅖, ⅗, ⅘, ⅙, ⅚, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞, ⅟ and ↉.<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|-<br />
|∕<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Division slash]]<br />
|Indicate a division operation (e.g. 3.14∕2𝐧).<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/English_Punctuation_Guide&diff=63994User:Jacobbrett/English Punctuation Guide2013-07-28T14:06:12Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.<br />
<br />
{|<br />
|+Preferred Unicode characters for English punctuation<br />
! colspan="2" |Preferred<br />
!Usage<br />
! colspan="2" |Deprecates<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‐<br />
|[[wikipedia:Hyphen|Hyphen]]<br />
|Joins words and syllables of a word (e.g. co‐operate).<br />
| rowspan="4" |-<br />
| rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]]<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‒<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Figure dash|Figure Dash]]<br />
|used as a dash within numbers (e.g. 555‒1212).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|– <br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#En dash|En Dash]]<br />
|Separate range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|−<br />
|[[wikipedia:Plus and minus signs#Minus sign|Minus sign]]<br />
|Indicates subtraction.<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|—<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Em dash|Em Dash]]<br />
|Separate thoughts—like this.<br />
|rowspan="2" |--<br />
|rowspan="2" |[[wikipedia:Hyphen-minus|Hyphen-minus]] ×2<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|―<br />
|[[wikipedia:Dash#Horizontal_bar|Horizontal bar]] aka [[wikipedia:Non-English usage of quotation marks#Quotation dash|Quotation dash]]<br />
|Introduces quoted text in some cases (non‐standard for English dialect).<br />
|- <!-- new row! --><br />
|‘<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left single quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="3" |'<br />
|rowspan="3" |[[wikipedia:Apostrophe#ASCII encoding|Apostrophe]]<br />
|-<br />
|’<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right single quotation mark]]<br />[[wikipedia:Apostrophe|Apostrophe]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text, or omitted characters.<br />
|-<br />
|′<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Prime]]<br />
|Minutes; feet<br />
|-<br />
|“<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Left double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates start of quoted text.<br />
|rowspan="4" |"<br />
|rowspan="4" |[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Quotation mark]]<br />
|-<br />
|”<br />
|[[wikipedia:Quotation mark|Right double quotation mark]]<br />
|Indicates end of quoted text.<br />
|-<br />
|″<br />
|[[wikipedia:Prime (symbol)|Double prime]]<br />
|Seconds; inches<br />
|-<br />
|〃<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ditto mark|Ditto mark]]<br />
|Indicates that the word(s) or figure(s) below which it is placed are to be repeated.<br />
|-<br />
|…<br />
|[[wikipedia:Ellipsis|Horizontal ellipsis]]<br />
|Indicates intentional omission in original text…or a pause in speech or thought.<br />
|...<br />
|[[wikipedia:Full stop|Full stop]] ×3<br />
|-<br />
|×<br />
|[[wikipedia:Multiplication|Multiplication]]<br />
|Indicate multiplication operation.<br />
|x<br />
|(the letter ‘[[wikipedia:X|X]]’) when used to indicate multiplication<br />
|-<br />
|⁄<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Fraction slash]]<br />
|Indicate arbitrary fractions of decimal numbers (e.g. 15⁄16). Hardcoded fractions: ¼, ½, ¾, ⅐, ⅑, ⅒, ⅓, ⅔, ⅕, ⅖, ⅗, ⅘, ⅙, ⅚, ⅛, ⅜, ⅝, ⅞, ⅟ and ↉<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|-<br />
|∕<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)#Encoding|Division slash]]<br />
|Indicate a division operation (e.g. 3.14∕2𝐧).<br />
|/<br />
|[[wikipedia:Slash_(punctuation)|Slash]]<br />
|}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63958User talk:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-07-22T10:20:58Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Notes to refine and integrate into article */</p>
<hr />
<div>==To review==<br />
* Discogs<br />
* ecover.to<br />
* walmart.ca<br />
* walmart.com<br />
* http://www.tower.com<br />
* hmv.com<br />
* hmv.ca<br />
* www.hmv.co.jp<br />
* rateyourmusic.com<br />
* www.encyclopedisque.fr<br />
* ozon.ru<br />
* Jamendo<br />
* Magnatune<br />
=== Promos ===<br />
* eil.com<br />
* cdandlp.com<br />
* gemm.com<br />
* ebay.com<br />
<br />
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/206/MI0001206549.jpg<br />
<br />
== Notes to refine and integrate into article ==<br />
iTunes releases require a barcode; tracks require ISRCs. https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wo/2.0<br />
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200422000<br />
<br />
=== Timings ===<br />
Many online retailers incorrectly round track timings:<br />
* Bandcamp (rounds down to nearest second)<br />
* Amazon.TLD (?)<br />
* iTunes (?)<br />
<br />
foobar2000 returns correctly rounded timings, as apparently does Picard (though, my installation doesn't!?)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63939User talk:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-07-21T13:11:12Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Notes to refine and integrate into article */</p>
<hr />
<div>==To review==<br />
* Discogs<br />
* ecover.to<br />
* walmart.ca<br />
* walmart.com<br />
* http://www.tower.com<br />
* hmv.com<br />
* hmv.ca<br />
* www.hmv.co.jp<br />
* rateyourmusic.com<br />
* www.encyclopedisque.fr<br />
* ozon.ru<br />
* Jamendo<br />
* Magnatune<br />
=== Promos ===<br />
* eil.com<br />
* cdandlp.com<br />
* gemm.com<br />
* ebay.com<br />
<br />
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/206/MI0001206549.jpg<br />
<br />
== Notes to refine and integrate into article ==<br />
iTunes releases require a barcode; tracks require ISRCs. https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wo/2.0<br />
<br />
=== Timings ===<br />
Many online retailers incorrectly round track timings:<br />
* Bandcamp (rounds down to nearest second)<br />
* Amazon.TLD (?)<br />
* iTunes (?)<br />
<br />
foobar2000 returns correctly rounded timings, as apparently does Picard (though, my installation doesn't!?)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63938User talk:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-07-21T13:09:14Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* To review */</p>
<hr />
<div>==To review==<br />
* Discogs<br />
* ecover.to<br />
* walmart.ca<br />
* walmart.com<br />
* http://www.tower.com<br />
* hmv.com<br />
* hmv.ca<br />
* www.hmv.co.jp<br />
* rateyourmusic.com<br />
* www.encyclopedisque.fr<br />
* ozon.ru<br />
* Jamendo<br />
* Magnatune<br />
=== Promos ===<br />
* eil.com<br />
* cdandlp.com<br />
* gemm.com<br />
* ebay.com<br />
<br />
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/206/MI0001206549.jpg<br />
<br />
== Notes to refine and integrate into article ==<br />
iTunes releases require a barcode; tracks require ISRCs. https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wo/2.0<br />
<br />
<br />
Many online retailers incorrectly round track timings:<br />
* Bandcamp (rounds down to nearest second)<br />
* Amazon.TLD (?)<br />
* iTunes (?)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63922User talk:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-07-17T11:29:04Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* To review */</p>
<hr />
<div>==To review==<br />
* Discogs<br />
* ecover.to<br />
* walmart.ca<br />
* walmart.com<br />
* http://www.tower.com<br />
* hmv.com<br />
* hmv.ca<br />
* www.hmv.co.jp<br />
* rateyourmusic.com<br />
* www.encyclopedisque.fr<br />
* ozon.ru<br />
* Jamendo<br />
* Magnatune<br />
Promos:<br />
eil.com<br />
cdandlp.com<br />
gemm.com<br />
ebay.com<br />
<br />
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_1080/MI0001/206/MI0001206549.jpg</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63857User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-06-24T15:37:53Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [https://bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]: http://f0.bcbits.com/img/<artwork ID>_0.jpg—(Be sure to use the “0” suffix to get the original image; suffix “10” is capped to 1200px square and is recompressed, regardless of resolution)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant. Usually available at 600px or 1200px (beware of upscaling at 1200px))<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63856User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-06-24T15:32:15Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [https://bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]: http://f0.bcbits.com/img/<artwork ID>_10.jpg (1200px)—replace the “10” suffix with “0” for original size.<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant. Usually available at 600px or 1200px (beware of upscaling at 1200px))<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=63844User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2013-06-24T15:16:07Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [https://bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]: http://f0.bcbits.com/img/<artwork ID>_10.jpg (1200px)—replace the “10” suffix with “0” or “1” for original size.<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant. Usually available at 600px or 1200px (beware of upscaling at 1200px))<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
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==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
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==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=Other_Databases_Relationship_Type/Whitelist&diff=61762Other Databases Relationship Type/Whitelist2013-01-08T23:42:40Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Regional pages */</p>
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<div>This is the official list of databases allowed for the [[Other Databases Relationship Type]]. For adding new databases to the list, please follow [[Proposals|the standard proposal procedure]].<br />
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==General pages==<br />
'''Rate Your Music''' (http://rateyourmusic.com/)<br />
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'''WorldCat''' (http://www.worldcat.org/)<br />
: International network of library holdings<br />
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'''MusicMoz''' (http://musicmoz.org/)<br />
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'''45cat''' (http://www.45cat.com/)<br />
: Global database for 7" vinyl<br />
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==Regional pages==<br />
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===<u>Australian</u>===<br />
'''Trove''' (http://trove.nla.gov.au/)<br />
: Australian library/historical resource database maintained by the National Library of Australia.<br />
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===<u>Brazilian</u>===<br />
'''Discos do Brasil''' (http://www.discosdobrasil.com.br/)<br />
: Brazilian music database, based on the creator's private collection but with fairly complete info for it.<br />
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===<u>Chinese</u>===<br />
'''Rock in China''' (http://www.rockinchina.com/)<br />
: A wiki detailing the recent Chinese underground/independent music scene.<br />
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===<u>Danish</u>===<br />
'''<abbr title="Danske Hip Hop Udgivelser">DHHU</abbr>''' (http://www.dhhu.dk/)<br />
: Danish wiki site containing extensive information about Danish hip hop releases (= "udgivelser") since the 1980's.<br />
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===<u>Estonian</u>===<br />
'''ESTER''' (http://www.elnet.ee/ester/)<br />
: Estonian library database. Divided in two branches, Tallinn (http://tallinn.ester.ee) and Tartu (http://tartu.ester.ee).<br />
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===<u>French</u>===<br />
'''Encyclopedisque''' (http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/)<br />
: French database for 7" vinyl.<br />
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===<u>German</u>===<br />
'''Musik-Sammler''' (http://www.musik-sammler.de/)<br />
: German generalist database.<br />
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===<u>Italian</u>===<br />
'''Discografia Nazionale della canzone italiana''' (http://discografia.dds.it/)<br />
: Italian database of ''musica leggera'', especially useful for older releases.<br />
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===<u>Taiwanese</u>===<br />
'''ISRC查詢系統''' (http://isrc.ncl.edu.tw/)<br />
: Taiwanese ISRC database, maintained by the National Central Library. Note that the track order may not match physical releases, since tracks are sorted by ISRC code.<br />
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==Genre pages==<br />
===<u>Electronic</u>===<br />
'''rolldabeats''' (http://www.rolldabeats.com/)<br />
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'''psydb''' (http://www.psydb.net/)<br />
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===<u>Folk</u>===<br />
'''The Session''' (http://www.thesession.org/)<br />
: "Jam session" resource for primarily Irish trad. musicians. Useful for linking recordings to works. (Can be linked against Release Groups and Works.)<br />
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===<u>Metal</u>===<br />
'''Metal-Archives''' (http://www.metal-archives.com/)<br />
: The most complete metal database. Release pages should be related to MusicBrainz [[Release Group]]s.<br />
'''Spirit of Metal''' (http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/)<br />
: Less accurate but more wide in focus than Metal-Archives. <br />
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===<u>Theatre</u>===<br />
'''IBDb''' (http://www.ibdb.com)<br />
: The official database for Broadway theatre information.<br />
'''IOBDb''' (http://www.iobdb.com)<br />
: The Lortel Archives, or "Internet Off-Broadway Database". For non-Broadway New York productions.<br />
'''Theatricalia''' (http://theatricalia.com/)<br />
: A database of past and future theatre productions. Not restricted to any specific place.<br />
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===<u>Video game music</u>===<br />
'''OCRemix''' (http://ocremix.org/)<br />
: Apart from a database of OCRemix reworks, also contains information about videogame music in itself.</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61750User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T20:58:56Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Tracks */</p>
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<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It's pretty ugly and is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
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Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
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<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
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== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
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[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
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By default, only Recordings and Mixes would be exposed to editors, other users and the webservice. An "advanced" flag/account option might be used to reveal masters and tracks.<br />
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I think this level of granularity, combined with "catch-all" entries, is best to avoid data duplication while maintaining some sanity in data maintenance--masters and tracks should be seen as completely optional concepts to the user.<br />
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==== Recordings ====<br />
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A conceptual entity which may represent a rough assemblage of studio or live takes, intended to be presented as a piece of recorded music. A bit "meta", unless it's representing a dry, one-track live recording.<br />
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A nominal mix (the most commonly occurring mix on releases, or a flagged mix--see below) may be returned when viewing a recording (via web service or the MusicBrainz website).<br />
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Recordings may not have a length, rather the nominal mix's details are displayed.<br />
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==== Mixes ====<br />
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A particular arrangement of the elements of a recording. e.g. stereo mix, surround mix, overdub re-mix, karaoke mix, radio edit, DJ remix. '''This is generally the level of granularity the consumer cares about.'''<br />
<br />
Mixes are supposedly similar to what we currently know as "Recordings".<br />
<br />
We should perhaps have the ability to flag a single mix as the "nominal" mix, so that it may be returned with any request for a recording. It may be beneficial to particularly flag the album mix of a recording, so that it is better represented than a hypothetical hugely popular DJ remix.<br />
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A nominal master (see below) may be returned.<br />
<br />
A mix's length might be taken from a nominal master.<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
A mix that has had it's audio levels modified to suit a delivery medium and/or artistic purpose. This closely represents the audio the consumer receives. '''Most people probably don't care about masters''' and may become overwhelmed with too many levels of granularity, so their existence must be veiled, unless explicitly requested, and be instead represented by their respective mixes.<br />
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Similar to above, it may be beneficial to flag a nominal master--this might be used to indicate a master that has suffered the least clipping and dynamic range compression.<br />
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A master's length should be the most common trimmed length, to the nearest second, of related tracks.<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
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* Gain?<br />
* Extra silence at beginning/end?<br />
* 0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end?<br />
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Display of master entities may be disabled--for editors and web services. Tracks would be shown to be related to mixes (track entities themselves would not be displayed either).<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
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Represents (in the case of digital audio) the bits written to a medium that represent a waveform (e.g. uncompressed CD audio, decoded MP3 waveform). '''This is for the nerds.''' Again, the existence of such entities must be hidden, unless requested, instead being directly represented by their parent mixes.<br />
<br />
How do we handle digital releases that represent multiple lossy encodings--new release and track IDs for each encoding? Do we ignore lossy vendors and focus on lossless releases only (in terms of creating new track IDs and recording metadata)?<br />
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[[User:Jacobbrett/Recordings#Track_entity_features|See below]] for trimmed length calculation.<br />
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=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
These are the default entries recursively created when a new recording or mix is created. They are used by default when linking tracks, unless a more specific mix or master is created and used.<br />
<br />
=== Advanced Relationships ===<br />
<br />
[Need to discuss how to handle these--migrations, etc.]<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
MusicBrainz's interface will require extensive modification or re-design to accommodate these new features, as well as resolve current ailments and allow for future extensions modularly.<br />
<br />
Will require huge development time. :(<br />
<br />
Our style guidelines will need to be rethought and vastly improved over our current guidelines; they're currently too vague, in places.<br />
<br />
We need better batch interfaces for relationships.<br />
<br />
[Insert a butt-load of mockups and design ideas]<br />
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==== Relating recordings/mixes to a tracklist ====<br />
<br />
An editor might load a "Recordings" page, similar to the current design, though which allows intuitive, tree-like navigation through Recordings->Mixes[->Masters] and might be a design extension of the current selector. A track may be related to any of the three levels (and unbeknownst to the general editor, bucketed into relevant "catch-all" mixes/masters). Let's keep it easy.<br />
<br />
A similar form of navigation might apply to other types of edits (e.g. advanced relationships).<br />
<br />
==== Relationship editor ====<br />
<br />
If an editor attempts to create a relationship to a catch-all entity (regularly just represented by the first non-catch-all parent), they will be required to create an appropriate entity on the same level (and optionally a non-catch-all parent, if applicable) and link to that new entity.<br />
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==== Disambiguation comments ====<br />
<br />
We should optionally supply a list of common disambiguation comment templates through an HTML 5 [http://developers.whatwg.org/the-button-element.html#the-datalist-element datalist] element. An example list for releases might be as follows:<br />
* deluxe edition<br />
* clean version<br />
* [YEAR] remaster<br />
* [COLOR] vinyl<br />
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=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
Attach Acoustids to mixes by default. If a master/track-level editor can verify an Acoustid as representing a particular master, remove the Acoustid from the mix (if it exists) and attach it to the master. The mix would inherit the Acoustid, so the general user would see no difference. This may be repeated for the same Acoustid if it belongs to several masters. Semantically, the Acoustid should always be represented at the mix level to allow for ambiguity.<br />
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==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
The following might be processed by Picard:<br />
<br />
* Waveform hash<br />
* Dynamic Range calculation<br />
* Low-resolution visual waveform (GIF/PNG data)<br />
* Length calculation in ms (perhaps more universal?) or frames (after stripping silence from start and end)<br />
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==== Non-album recordings ====<br />
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[We need to deal with these somehow (allow release dates, etc.) or rethink/clarify what a "release" is.]</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues&diff=61748User talk:Reosarevok/Recording Issues2013-01-07T20:47:22Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>'''Please add new proposals to the bottom of the page''', so that all the numbers stay the same for existing proposals!<br />
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For a summary of these ideas, please see [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues/Summary|Summary]].<br />
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# [[User:LordSputnik/Track_System_Redesign|Sput wants recordings to be mixes, tracks to be entities, and master entities to group tracks.]]<br />
# [[User:Freso/Thoughts on Recordings|Freso's thoughts]]<br />
# [[User:Kuno/recordings|warp just wants track ids]]<br />
# [[User:Mudcrow|mudcrow put some stuff here, though ian's linking it to this page]]<br />
# [[User:Murdos]] is perfectly happy with the current system<br />
# [[User:Reosarevok|reosarevok]] would love more levels if and only if they're optional and shown to users only if they ask for them.<br />
# [http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20627#p20627 Jesus] said ''An MB recording is this song’s a recording session’s take, and we have some new sub sets of masters, cuts and mixes, as well as a DON’TKNOWWHICH catch-all special set in the same MB recording.''<br />
# [[User:Nikki/Recordings|nikki would like recordings to be mixes, but has some more detailed thoughts here]]<br />
## [[User:Reosarevok|reosarevok]] likes the sound of this (and while we're at that, he'll mention he wants something similar for works and arrangements)<br />
## [[User:symphonick|symphonick]] also wants recordings = mixes, and agrees that masters s/b @ release level<br />
# [[User:Kepstin/Recording_Thoughts]] has a similar master level to nikki's proposal, and the addition of a higher level entity to group alternate versions, possibly with AR movement to reduce redundant data.<br />
# [http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-devel/2012-December/005110.html The BBC has some thoughts too]. They'd like recording groups, but that could just be because we're too cautious about merging recordings. Would be nice if we could get them to clarify. --[[User:Nikki|Nikki]] ([[User talk:Nikki|talk]]) 03:42, 20 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Symphonick/Recordings|symphonick's wishlist]] & thoughts<br />
# [[User:Caller_number_six/recordings|caller#6 wants an FRBR "expression"]].<br />
# [http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3965 forums thread]<br />
# [[User:Rochusw/Recordings|rochusw]] also supports track ids and "DON'TKNOWWHICH" levels.<br />
## I especially like the bit about tracks normally only having one AcoustID, very good point. EDIT: Obviously this is a decision for luks to make. I was just expressing my opinion that it's a good idea. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 12:43, 26 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## Anyone prescribing changes to AcoustID: Please read my comment on the forums thread. ''We do not control AcoustID'' -- luks will decide what AcoustID does with respect to this change, and I'm confident he'll decide better than any of us. Proposals should treat AcoustID as it is: a third-party entity. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 20:58, 26 December 2012 (UTC)\<br />
## I don't see why editors can't make suggestions about how they'd like AcoustID to be more integrated with MB? If luks reads them and thinks they're good enough, there's no reason why he wouldn't use the suggestions... And besides, we can implement the idea in this proposal as a style guideline - "if you see more than one fingerprint on a track, examine it, and if it's wrong, unlink it". --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 10:22, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## You are free to say what you want and hope for miracles. However, if a proposal specifies anything that must/should happen on AcoustID's end, depends on any particular behavior of AcoustID (say: "acoustids are attached to {any particular level}", or inheritance of acoustids, or suggestions of "improving" acoustid in optimistic and vague fashions), or attempts to redefine the relationship between AcoustID and MusicBrainz, it will fail. AcoustID is not part of MusicBrainz, and for both legal and preference reasons neither side is interested in them merging, even to the very minimal level of MusicBrainz having a copy of the AcoustID database. We've discussed these topics a number of times since AcoustID came into existence; if this discussion of recordings is happening I'd like it to stay focused on things that we can actually change, which doesn't include AcoustID. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 11:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## We can, however, propose that AcoustIDs links shouldn't be displayed on mixes, until luks decides how to proceed. That's completely our end - we just change the page to remove the AcoustIDs section, with no modifications to the links themselves or AcoustIDs. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 01:30, 5 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Ianmcorvidae/Recordings|ianmcorvidae]] is a curmudgeon who thinks the whole discussion is about symptoms of larger problems that we should focus on solving instead of making things more complex<br />
## Both nikki's proposal and mine say that we need Master before we have Mix. If we remove the Master part of recordings without creating a new entity to put Master relationships on, we're going to waste a lot of time moving any production relationships into annotations and then back onto Masters when they're eventually made. If we create a simple, optional Master level before 2. and 3., it'll save editors time, and won't detract from any future modifications that may be needed once 2 and 3 have been done. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 10:35, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## You have misread nikki's proposal: "If I had my way, I would simply define recordings as mixes and put mastering at the release level." and note that defining recordings as mixes is before the creation of masters in the bulleted list of the proposal. You have a highly optimistic view of what won't detract from MB, with which I as a developer and editor do not agree. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 11:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## No, nikki says we should have masters because she's taking into account the views of other people: "However, in an attempt to satisfy masterists, here's my proposal:". The list with bullets isn't an ordered list. In her implementation suggestions, she clearly puts the schema change to make master in stage 1, while redefining recordings in stage 2. What detracts from MB is for the wider community to decide - I certainly can't say for definite, I'm just giving reasons why I feel it would be helpful. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 01:30, 5 January 2012 (UTC)<br />
## The interpretation of nikki's proposal doesn't change mine. The relevant points of my proposal are that a.) we have bigger problems to be dealing with, and I think we're talking about schemas because we don't feel comfortable talking about them, b.) issues of recording-fuzziness are solved by definition as 'mix', since we ''already'' don't have effective tools for tracking master-related information (thus needing to actually consider interaction!), and c.) track IDs are largely an independent concern (though one I think is actually more important than this one). My metric for detriment is developer time taken away from other things (like fixing bugs), which is already a huge problem with 2 of 3 developers working on major new projects. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 02:18, 5 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Jacobbrett/Recordings|jacobbrett’s thoughts]]<br />
##I like the bit about track length inheritance on masters and mixes. However I haven't seen any users who want to be able to distinguish between tracks on the bit level. I thought that Warp did a while ago but it turned out that he didn't want that much information. I really do think that bit level information is beyond the scope of MB - if Amazon offers VBR V0 MP3 and iTunes offers M4A, that's their problem. We shouldn't have to duplicate our releases because of this. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 15:10, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
## I specifically suggested ignoring lossy encodings for this reason; I imagine there’s a far better chance that retailers would carry an identical lossless waveform—otherwise, we could throw that idea out entirely for digital releases. Indeed, such features may be considered out‐of‐scope, though I’d like them to be expressed at this time. Rochusw mentioned he would like dynamic range information for tracks/masters. [[User:Jacobbrett|jacobbrett]] ([[User talk:Jacobbrett|talk]]) 20:47, 7 January 2013 (UTC)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Nikki/Recording_lengths&diff=61730User:Nikki/Recording lengths2013-01-07T10:46:36Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>Since [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues]] is really not helping us decide what to do about [[jira:MBS-2021|MBS-2021]]...<br />
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'''Note:''' This page doesn't refer to standalone recordings. They don't have tracks and therefore don't have track length which means the lengths can only be entered manually. If you want to get rid of standalone recordings entirely, that's something separate from what we're trying to solve here and is a whole new can of worms. Make your own proposal for that if that's what you want.<br />
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== Should recording lengths ever be calculated automatically from track lengths? ==<br />
=== Yes - some or all of the time ===<br />
* [[User:Nikki|Nikki]] ([[User talk:Nikki|talk]]) 10:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 10:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:OliverCharles|OliverCharles]] ([[User talk:OliverCharles|talk]]) 10:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:Kuno|warp]]<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett|jacobbrett]] ([[User talk:Jacobbrett|talk]]) 10:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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=== No - editors should always enter them by hand ===<br />
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== Should recording lengths be editable? ==<br />
=== Yes, always ===<br />
<br />
=== Yes, but only when there are multiple tracks ===<br />
<br />
=== No, always calculate them automatically when there are tracks ===<br />
* [[User:Nikki|Nikki]] ([[User talk:Nikki|talk]]) 10:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:OliverCharles|OliverCharles]] ([[User talk:OliverCharles|talk]]) 10:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:Kuno|warp]]<br />
* [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 10:38, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:Jacobbrett|jacobbrett]] ([[User talk:Jacobbrett|talk]]) 10:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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== If recording lengths should only be calculated automatically some of the time, when should it happen? ==<br />
Vote for both if you like, they're not mutually exclusive.<br />
=== When there isn't an existing recording length ===<br />
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=== When the recording only has one track ===<br />
<br />
=== ... ===<br />
<br />
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== If recording lengths should always be calculated automatically from track lengths, how should the length be determined? ==<br />
=== I don't care, just calculate them from track lengths somehow ===<br />
* [[User:Nikki|Nikki]] ([[User talk:Nikki|talk]]) 10:17, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* [[User:Kuno|warp]]<br />
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=== Sort the releases (e.g. by status then by date) and use the first available length ===<br />
<br />
=== Take the mean average of the lengths ===<br />
<br />
=== Take the modal track time ===<br />
* [[User:OliverCharles|OliverCharles]] ([[User talk:OliverCharles|talk]]) 10:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
* I’m slightly partial to my [[User:Jacobbrett/Recordings#Mixes|more complex solution]] [[User:Jacobbrett|jacobbrett]] ([[User talk:Jacobbrett|talk]]) 10:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
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=== ... ===<br />
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== Other views ==<br />
<br />
=== There is no spoon^wrecording length ===<br />
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[[User:OliverCharles|ocharles]] thinks that abolishing the concept of recording lengths entirely is the way to go.</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61719User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T10:30:44Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Mixes */</p>
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<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It's pretty ugly and is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
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== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
<br />
By default, only Recordings and Mixes would be exposed to editors, other users and the webservice. An "advanced" flag/account option might be used to reveal masters and tracks.<br />
<br />
I think this level of granularity, combined with "catch-all" entries, is best to avoid data duplication while maintaining some sanity in data maintenance--masters and tracks should be seen as completely optional concepts to the user.<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
A conceptual entity which may represent a rough assemblage of studio or live takes, intended to be presented as a piece of recorded music. A bit "meta", unless it's representing a dry, one-track live recording.<br />
<br />
A nominal mix (the most commonly occurring mix on releases, or a flagged mix--see below) may be returned when viewing a recording (via web service or the MusicBrainz website).<br />
<br />
Recordings may not have a length, rather the nominal mix's details are displayed.<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
A particular arrangement of the elements of a recording. e.g. stereo mix, surround mix, overdub re-mix, karaoke mix, radio edit, DJ remix. '''This is generally the level of granularity the consumer cares about.'''<br />
<br />
Mixes are supposedly similar to what we currently know as "Recordings".<br />
<br />
We should perhaps have the ability to flag a single mix as the "nominal" mix, so that it may be returned with any request for a recording. It may be beneficial to particularly flag the album mix of a recording, so that it is better represented than a hypothetical hugely popular DJ remix.<br />
<br />
A nominal master (see below) may be returned.<br />
<br />
A mix's length might be taken from a nominal master.<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
A mix that has had it's audio levels modified to suit a delivery medium and/or artistic purpose. This closely represents the audio the consumer receives. '''Most people probably don't care about masters''' and may become overwhelmed with too many levels of granularity, so their existence must be veiled, unless explicitly requested, and be instead represented by their respective mixes.<br />
<br />
Similar to above, it may be beneficial to flag a nominal master--this might be used to indicate a master that has suffered the least clipping and dynamic range compression.<br />
<br />
A master's length should be the most common trimmed length, to the nearest second, of related tracks.<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
* Gain?<br />
* Extra silence at beginning/end?<br />
* 0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end?<br />
<br />
Display of master entities may be disabled--for editors and web services. Tracks would be shown to be related to mixes (track entities themselves would not be displayed either).<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
Represents (in the case of digital audio) the bits written to a medium that represent a waveform (e.g. uncompressed CD audio, decoded MP3 waveform). '''This is for the nerds.''' Again, the existence of such entities must be hidden, unless requested, instead being directly represented by their parent mixes.<br />
<br />
How do we handle digital releases that represent multiple lossy encodings--new release and track IDs for each encoding? Do we ignore lossy vendors and focus on lossless releases only (in terms of creating new track IDs and recording metadata)?<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
These are the default entries recursively created when a new recording or mix is created. They are used by default when linking tracks, unless a more specific mix or master is created and used.<br />
<br />
=== Advanced Relationships ===<br />
<br />
[Need to discuss how to handle these--migrations, etc.]<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
MusicBrainz's interface will require extensive modification or re-design to accommodate these new features, as well as resolve current ailments and allow for future extensions modularly.<br />
<br />
Will require huge development time. :(<br />
<br />
Our style guidelines will need to be rethought and vastly improved over our current guidelines; they're currently too vague, in places.<br />
<br />
We need better batch interfaces for relationships.<br />
<br />
[Insert a butt-load of mockups and design ideas]<br />
<br />
==== Relating recordings/mixes to a tracklist ====<br />
<br />
An editor might load a "Recordings" page, similar to the current design, though which allows intuitive, tree-like navigation through Recordings->Mixes[->Masters] and might be a design extension of the current selector. A track may be related to any of the three levels (and unbeknownst to the general editor, bucketed into relevant "catch-all" mixes/masters). Let's keep it easy.<br />
<br />
A similar form of navigation might apply to other types of edits (e.g. advanced relationships).<br />
<br />
==== Relationship editor ====<br />
<br />
If an editor attempts to create a relationship to a catch-all entity (regularly just represented by the first non-catch-all parent), they will be required to create an appropriate entity on the same level (and optionally a non-catch-all parent, if applicable) and link to that new entity.<br />
<br />
==== Disambiguation comments ====<br />
<br />
We should optionally supply a list of common disambiguation comment templates through an HTML 5 [http://developers.whatwg.org/the-button-element.html#the-datalist-element datalist] element. An example list for releases might be as follows:<br />
* deluxe edition<br />
* clean version<br />
* [YEAR] remaster<br />
* [COLOR] vinyl<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
Attach Acoustids to mixes by default. If a master/track-level editor can verify an Acoustid as representing a particular master, remove the Acoustid from the mix (if it exists) and attach it to the master. The mix would inherit the Acoustid, so the general user would see no difference. This may be repeated for the same Acoustid if it belongs to several masters. Semantically, the Acoustid should always be represented at the mix level to allow for ambiguity.<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
The following might be processed by Picard:<br />
<br />
* Waveform hash<br />
* Dynamic Range calculation<br />
* Low-resolution visual waveform (GIF/PNG data)<br />
* Length calculation in ms (perhaps more universal?) or frames (after stripping silence from start and end)<br />
<br />
==== Non-album recordings ====<br />
<br />
[We need to deal with these somehow (allow release dates, etc.) or rethink/clarify what a "release" is.]</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues/Summary&diff=61718User talk:Reosarevok/Recording Issues/Summary2013-01-07T10:28:38Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>This is a summary of the ideas proposals on [[User talk:Reosarevok/Recording Issues]], to be used as a quick reference. All of these summaries are based on my interpretation of the proposal - while I've tried to be as accurate as possible, let me know if I've misunderstood your ideas. For more information please see the individual proposal pages.<br />
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{| style="width:100%; text-align:left;"<br />
!Number&nbsp;&nbsp;!!Proposer&nbsp;&nbsp;!!Link&nbsp;&nbsp;!!Summary&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
|-<br />
|1||LordSputnik||[[User:LordSputnik/Track_System_Redesign|Link]]||Create a track entity and a master entity to group tracks. Redefine recordings as mixes, and move most production relationships from recordings and releases to masters.<br />
|-<br />
|2||Freso||[[User:Freso/Thoughts_on_Recordings|Link]]||Various modifications to recordings, including: Move AcoustIDs to tracks, have a place to put shared performance relationships, allow cover art for tracks, and use a smarter recording length system.<br />
|-<br />
|3||Warp||[[User:Kuno/recordings|Link]]||Give tracks MBIDs. Rewrite the recording style guideline to allow more frequent merging, based on recordings corresponding to the "expression" level in FRBR.<br />
|-<br />
|4||Mudcrow||[[User:Mudcrow|Link]]||A recording is a mix.<br />
|-<br />
|5||Murdos||-||Thinks the current system is happy with the current system.<br />
|-<br />
|6||reosarevok||-||Would like any new levels to be optional.<br />
|-<br />
|7||jesus2099||-||Wants to introduce mix, cut and master entities, and define recordings as audio captured in a single studio take. Wants to indicate when a track uses an unknown version of a recording by relating the track to some sort of special recording.<br />
|-<br />
|8||nikki||[[User:Nikki/Recordings|Link]]||Would prefer to just define recordings as mixes and put mastering information on releases. If we really have to add new levels, would create a new master level and define recordings as mixes, but minimalising changes to the current system.<br />
|-<br />
|16||jacobbrett||[[User:Jacobbrett/Recordings|Link]]||Would like to see recording, mix, master and track entities, though only revealing the former two to the user by default. Wants to use “catch‐all” entries for ambiguous circumstances. Would like track entities to have a bunch of cool metadata.<br />
|}</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues&diff=61717User talk:Reosarevok/Recording Issues2013-01-07T10:24:19Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>'''Please add new proposals to the bottom of the page''', so that all the numbers stay the same for existing proposals!<br />
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For a summary of these ideas, please see [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues/Summary|Summary]].<br />
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# [[User:LordSputnik/Track_System_Redesign|Sput wants recordings to be mixes, tracks to be entities, and master entities to group tracks.]]<br />
# [[User:Freso/Thoughts on Recordings|Freso's thoughts]]<br />
# [[User:Kuno/recordings|warp just wants track ids]]<br />
# [[User:Mudcrow|mudcrow put some stuff here, though ian's linking it to this page]]<br />
# [[User:Murdos]] is perfectly happy with the current system<br />
# [[User:Reosarevok|reosarevok]] would love more levels if and only if they're optional and shown to users only if they ask for them.<br />
# [http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20627#p20627 Jesus] said ''An MB recording is this song’s a recording session’s take, and we have some new sub sets of masters, cuts and mixes, as well as a DON’TKNOWWHICH catch-all special set in the same MB recording.''<br />
# [[User:Nikki/Recordings|nikki would like recordings to be mixes, but has some more detailed thoughts here]]<br />
## [[User:Reosarevok|reosarevok]] likes the sound of this (and while we're at that, he'll mention he wants something similar for works and arrangements)<br />
## [[User:symphonick|symphonick]] also wants recordings = mixes, and agrees that masters s/b @ release level<br />
# [[User:Kepstin/Recording_Thoughts]] has a similar master level to nikki's proposal, and the addition of a higher level entity to group alternate versions, possibly with AR movement to reduce redundant data.<br />
# [http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-devel/2012-December/005110.html The BBC has some thoughts too]. They'd like recording groups, but that could just be because we're too cautious about merging recordings. Would be nice if we could get them to clarify. --[[User:Nikki|Nikki]] ([[User talk:Nikki|talk]]) 03:42, 20 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Symphonick/Recordings|symphonick's wishlist]] & thoughts<br />
# [[User:Caller_number_six/recordings|caller#6 wants an FRBR "expression"]].<br />
# [http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3965 forums thread]<br />
# [[User:Rochusw/Recordings|rochusw]] also supports track ids and "DON'TKNOWWHICH" levels.<br />
## I especially like the bit about tracks normally only having one AcoustID, very good point. EDIT: Obviously this is a decision for luks to make. I was just expressing my opinion that it's a good idea. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 12:43, 26 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## Anyone prescribing changes to AcoustID: Please read my comment on the forums thread. ''We do not control AcoustID'' -- luks will decide what AcoustID does with respect to this change, and I'm confident he'll decide better than any of us. Proposals should treat AcoustID as it is: a third-party entity. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 20:58, 26 December 2012 (UTC)\<br />
## I don't see why editors can't make suggestions about how they'd like AcoustID to be more integrated with MB? If luks reads them and thinks they're good enough, there's no reason why he wouldn't use the suggestions... And besides, we can implement the idea in this proposal as a style guideline - "if you see more than one fingerprint on a track, examine it, and if it's wrong, unlink it". --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 10:22, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## You are free to say what you want and hope for miracles. However, if a proposal specifies anything that must/should happen on AcoustID's end, depends on any particular behavior of AcoustID (say: "acoustids are attached to {any particular level}", or inheritance of acoustids, or suggestions of "improving" acoustid in optimistic and vague fashions), or attempts to redefine the relationship between AcoustID and MusicBrainz, it will fail. AcoustID is not part of MusicBrainz, and for both legal and preference reasons neither side is interested in them merging, even to the very minimal level of MusicBrainz having a copy of the AcoustID database. We've discussed these topics a number of times since AcoustID came into existence; if this discussion of recordings is happening I'd like it to stay focused on things that we can actually change, which doesn't include AcoustID. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 11:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## We can, however, propose that AcoustIDs links shouldn't be displayed on mixes, until luks decides how to proceed. That's completely our end - we just change the page to remove the AcoustIDs section, with no modifications to the links themselves or AcoustIDs. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 01:30, 5 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Ianmcorvidae/Recordings|ianmcorvidae]] is a curmudgeon who thinks the whole discussion is about symptoms of larger problems that we should focus on solving instead of making things more complex<br />
## Both nikki's proposal and mine say that we need Master before we have Mix. If we remove the Master part of recordings without creating a new entity to put Master relationships on, we're going to waste a lot of time moving any production relationships into annotations and then back onto Masters when they're eventually made. If we create a simple, optional Master level before 2. and 3., it'll save editors time, and won't detract from any future modifications that may be needed once 2 and 3 have been done. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 10:35, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## You have misread nikki's proposal: "If I had my way, I would simply define recordings as mixes and put mastering at the release level." and note that defining recordings as mixes is before the creation of masters in the bulleted list of the proposal. You have a highly optimistic view of what won't detract from MB, with which I as a developer and editor do not agree. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 11:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)<br />
## No, nikki says we should have masters because she's taking into account the views of other people: "However, in an attempt to satisfy masterists, here's my proposal:". The list with bullets isn't an ordered list. In her implementation suggestions, she clearly puts the schema change to make master in stage 1, while redefining recordings in stage 2. What detracts from MB is for the wider community to decide - I certainly can't say for definite, I'm just giving reasons why I feel it would be helpful. --[[User:LordSputnik|LordSputnik]] ([[User talk:LordSputnik|talk]]) 01:30, 5 January 2012 (UTC)<br />
## The interpretation of nikki's proposal doesn't change mine. The relevant points of my proposal are that a.) we have bigger problems to be dealing with, and I think we're talking about schemas because we don't feel comfortable talking about them, b.) issues of recording-fuzziness are solved by definition as 'mix', since we ''already'' don't have effective tools for tracking master-related information (thus needing to actually consider interaction!), and c.) track IDs are largely an independent concern (though one I think is actually more important than this one). My metric for detriment is developer time taken away from other things (like fixing bugs), which is already a huge problem with 2 of 3 developers working on major new projects. [[User:Ianmcorvidae|Ianmcorvidae]] ([[User talk:Ianmcorvidae|talk]]) 02:18, 5 January 2013 (UTC)<br />
# [[User:Jacobbrett/Recordings|jacobbrett’s thoughts]]</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61714User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T10:20:29Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It's pretty ugly and is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
<br />
By default, only Recordings and Mixes would be exposed to editors, other users and the webservice. An "advanced" flag/account option might be used to reveal masters and tracks.<br />
<br />
I think this level of granularity, combined with "catch-all" entries, is best to avoid data duplication while maintaining some sanity in data maintenance--masters and tracks should be seen as completely optional concepts to the user.<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
A conceptual entity which may represent a rough assemblage of studio or live takes, intended to be presented as a piece of recorded music. A bit "meta", unless it's representing a dry, one-track live recording.<br />
<br />
A nominal mix (the most commonly occurring mix on releases, or a flagged mix--see below) may be returned when viewing a recording (via web service or the MusicBrainz website).<br />
<br />
Recordings may not have a length, rather the nominal mix's details are displayed.<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
A particular arrangement of the elements of a recording. e.g. stereo mix, surround mix, overdub re-mix, karaoke mix. '''This is generally the level of granularity the consumer cares about.'''<br />
<br />
Mixes are supposedly similar to what we currently know as "Recordings".<br />
<br />
We should perhaps have the ability to flag a single mix as the "nominal" mix, so that it may be returned with any request for a recording. It may be beneficial to particularly flag the album mix of a recording, so that it is better represented than a hypothetical hugely popular DJ remix.<br />
<br />
A nominal master (see below) may be returned.<br />
<br />
A mix's length might be taken from a nominal master.<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
A mix that has had it's audio levels modified to suit a delivery medium and/or artistic purpose. This closely represents the audio the consumer receives. '''Most people probably don't care about masters''' and may become overwhelmed with too many levels of granularity, so their existence must be veiled, unless explicitly requested, and be instead represented by their respective mixes.<br />
<br />
Similar to above, it may be beneficial to flag a nominal master--this might be used to indicate a master that has suffered the least clipping and dynamic range compression.<br />
<br />
A master's length should be the most common trimmed length, to the nearest second, of related tracks.<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
* Gain?<br />
* Extra silence at beginning/end?<br />
* 0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end?<br />
<br />
Display of master entities may be disabled--for editors and web services. Tracks would be shown to be related to mixes (track entities themselves would not be displayed either).<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
Represents (in the case of digital audio) the bits written to a medium that represent a waveform (e.g. uncompressed CD audio, decoded MP3 waveform). '''This is for the nerds.''' Again, the existence of such entities must be hidden, unless requested, instead being directly represented by their parent mixes.<br />
<br />
How do we handle digital releases that represent multiple lossy encodings--new release and track IDs for each encoding? Do we ignore lossy vendors and focus on lossless releases only (in terms of creating new track IDs and recording metadata)?<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
These are the default entries recursively created when a new recording or mix is created. They are used by default when linking tracks, unless a more specific mix or master is created and used.<br />
<br />
=== Advanced Relationships ===<br />
<br />
[Need to discuss how to handle these--migrations, etc.]<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
MusicBrainz's interface will require extensive modification or re-design to accommodate these new features, as well as resolve current ailments and allow for future extensions modularly.<br />
<br />
Will require huge development time. :(<br />
<br />
Our style guidelines will need to be rethought and vastly improved over our current guidelines; they're currently too vague, in places.<br />
<br />
We need better batch interfaces for relationships.<br />
<br />
[Insert a butt-load of mockups and design ideas]<br />
<br />
==== Relating recordings/mixes to a tracklist ====<br />
<br />
An editor might load a "Recordings" page, similar to the current design, though which allows intuitive, tree-like navigation through Recordings->Mixes[->Masters] and might be a design extension of the current selector. A track may be related to any of the three levels (and unbeknownst to the general editor, bucketed into relevant "catch-all" mixes/masters). Let's keep it easy.<br />
<br />
A similar form of navigation might apply to other types of edits (e.g. advanced relationships).<br />
<br />
==== Relationship editor ====<br />
<br />
If an editor attempts to create a relationship to a catch-all entity (regularly just represented by the first non-catch-all parent), they will be required to create an appropriate entity on the same level (and optionally a non-catch-all parent, if applicable) and link to that new entity.<br />
<br />
==== Disambiguation comments ====<br />
<br />
We should optionally supply a list of common disambiguation comment templates through an HTML 5 [http://developers.whatwg.org/the-button-element.html#the-datalist-element datalist] element. An example list for releases might be as follows:<br />
* deluxe edition<br />
* clean version<br />
* [YEAR] remaster<br />
* [COLOR] vinyl<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
Attach Acoustids to mixes by default. If a master/track-level editor can verify an Acoustid as representing a particular master, remove the Acoustid from the mix (if it exists) and attach it to the master. The mix would inherit the Acoustid, so the general user would see no difference. This may be repeated for the same Acoustid if it belongs to several masters. Semantically, the Acoustid should always be represented at the mix level to allow for ambiguity.<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
The following might be processed by Picard:<br />
<br />
* Waveform hash<br />
* Dynamic Range calculation<br />
* Low-resolution visual waveform (GIF/PNG data)<br />
* Length calculation in ms (perhaps more universal?) or frames (after stripping silence from start and end)<br />
<br />
==== Non-album recordings ====<br />
<br />
[We need to deal with these somehow (allow release dates, etc.) or rethink/clarify what a "release" is.]</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61713User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T10:18:41Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
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<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It's pretty ugly and is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
<br />
By default, only Recordings and Mixes would be exposed to editors, other users and the webservice. An "advanced" flag/account option might be used to reveal masters and tracks.<br />
<br />
I think this level of granularity, combined with "catch-all" entries, is best to avoid data duplication while maintaining some sanity in data maintenance--masters and tracks should be seen as completely optional concepts to the user.<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
A conceptual entity which may represent a rough assemblage of studio or live takes, intended to be presented as a piece of recorded music. A bit "meta", unless it's representing a dry, one-track live recording.<br />
<br />
A nominal mix (the most commonly occurring mix on releases, or a flagged mix--see below) may be returned when viewing a recording (via web service or the MusicBrainz website).<br />
<br />
Recordings may not have a length, rather the nominal mix's details are displayed.<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
A particular arrangement of the elements of a recording. e.g. stereo mix, surround mix, overdub re-mix, karaoke mix. '''This is generally the level of granularity the consumer cares about.'''<br />
<br />
Mixes are supposedly similar to what we currently know as "Recordings".<br />
<br />
We should perhaps have the ability to flag a single mix as the "nominal" mix, so that it may be returned with any request for a recording. It may be beneficial to particularly flag the album mix of a recording, so that it is better represented than a hypothetical hugely popular DJ remix.<br />
<br />
A nominal master (see below) may be returned.<br />
<br />
A mix's length might be taken from a nominal master.<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
A mix that has had it's audio levels modified to suit a delivery medium and/or artistic purpose. This closely represents the audio the consumer receives. '''Most people probably don't care about masters''' and may become overwhelmed with too many levels of granularity, so their existence must be veiled, unless explicitly requested, and be instead represented by their respective mixes.<br />
<br />
Similar to above, it may be beneficial to flag a nominal master--this might be used to indicate a master that has suffered the least clipping and dynamic range compression.<br />
<br />
A master's length should be the most common trimmed length, to the nearest second, of related tracks.<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
* Gain?<br />
* Extra silence at beginning/end?<br />
* 0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end?<br />
<br />
Display of master entities may be disabled--for editors and web services. Tracks would be shown to be related to mixes (track entities themselves would not be displayed either).<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
Represents (in the case of digital audio) the bits written to a medium that represent a waveform (e.g. uncompressed CD audio, decoded MP3 waveform). '''This is for the nerds.''' Again, the existence of such entities must be hidden, unless requested, instead being directly represented by their parent mixes.<br />
<br />
How do we handle digital releases that represent multiple lossy encodings--new release and track IDs for each encoding? Do we ignore lossy vendors and focus on lossless releases only (in terms of creating new track IDs and recording metadata)?<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
These are the default entries recursively created when a new recording or mix is created. They are used by default when linking tracks, unless a more specific mix or master is created and used.<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
MusicBrainz's interface will require extensive modification or re-design to accommodate these new features, as well as resolve current ailments and allow for future extensions modularly.<br />
<br />
Will require huge development time. :(<br />
<br />
Our style guidelines will need to be rethought and vastly improved over our current guidelines; they're currently too vague, in places.<br />
<br />
We need better batch interfaces for relationships.<br />
<br />
[Insert a butt-load of mockups and design ideas]<br />
<br />
==== Relating recordings/mixes to a tracklist ====<br />
<br />
An editor might load a "Recordings" page, similar to the current design, though which allows intuitive, tree-like navigation through Recordings->Mixes[->Masters] and might be a design extension of the current selector. A track may be related to any of the three levels (and unbeknownst to the general editor, bucketed into relevant "catch-all" mixes/masters). Let's keep it easy.<br />
<br />
A similar form of navigation might apply to other types of edits (e.g. advanced relationships).<br />
<br />
==== Relationship editor ====<br />
<br />
If an editor attempts to create a relationship to a catch-all entity (regularly just represented by the first non-catch-all parent), they will be required to create an appropriate entity on the same level (and optionally a non-catch-all parent, if applicable) and link to that new entity.<br />
<br />
==== Disambiguation comments ====<br />
<br />
We should optionally supply a list of common disambiguation comment templates through an HTML 5 [http://developers.whatwg.org/the-button-element.html#the-datalist-element datalist] element. An example list for releases might be as follows:<br />
* deluxe edition<br />
* clean version<br />
* [YEAR] remaster<br />
* [COLOR] vinyl<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
Attach Acoustids to mixes by default. If a master/track-level editor can verify an Acoustid as representing a particular master, remove the Acoustid from the mix (if it exists) and attach it to the master. The mix would inherit the Acoustid, so the general user would see no difference. This may be repeated for the same Acoustid if it belongs to several masters. Semantically, the Acoustid should always be represented at the mix level to allow for ambiguity.<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
The following might be processed by Picard:<br />
<br />
* Waveform hash<br />
* Dynamic Range calculation<br />
* Low-resolution visual waveform (GIF/PNG data)<br />
* Length calculation in ms (perhaps more universal?) or frames (after stripping silence from start and end)<br />
<br />
==== Non-album recordings ====<br />
<br />
We need to deal with these somehow (allow release dates, etc.) or rethink/clarify what a "release" is.</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61711User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T10:15:58Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It's pretty ugly and is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
<br />
By default, only Recordings and Mixes would be exposed to editors, other users and the webservice. An "advanced" flag/account option might be used to reveal masters and tracks.<br />
<br />
I think this level of granularity, combined with "catch-all" entries, is best to avoid data duplication while maintaining some sanity in data maintenance--masters and tracks should be seen as completely optional concepts to the user.<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
A conceptual entity which may represent a rough assemblage of studio or live takes, intended to be presented as a piece of recorded music. A bit "meta", unless it's representing a dry, one-track live recording.<br />
<br />
A nominal mix (the most commonly occurring mix on releases, or a flagged mix--see below) may be returned when viewing a recording (via web service or the MusicBrainz website).<br />
<br />
Recordings may not have a length, rather the nominal mix's details are displayed.<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
A particular arrangement of the elements of a recording. e.g. stereo mix, surround mix, overdub re-mix, karaoke mix. '''This is generally the level of granularity the consumer cares about.'''<br />
<br />
Mixes are supposedly similar to what we currently know as "Recordings".<br />
<br />
We should perhaps have the ability to flag a single mix as the "nominal" mix, so that it may be returned with any request for a recording. It may be beneficial to particularly flag the album mix of a recording, so that it is better represented than a hypothetical hugely popular DJ remix.<br />
<br />
A nominal master (see below) may be returned.<br />
<br />
A mix's length might be taken from a nominal master.<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
A mix that has had it's audio levels modified to suit a delivery medium and/or artistic purpose. This closely represents the audio the consumer receives. '''Most people probably don't care about masters''' and may become overwhelmed with too many levels of granularity, so their existence must be veiled, unless explicitly requested, and be instead represented by their respective mixes.<br />
<br />
Similar to above, it may be beneficial to flag a nominal master--this might be used to indicate a master that has suffered the least clipping and dynamic range compression.<br />
<br />
A master's length should be the most common trimmed length, to the nearest second, of related tracks.<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
* Gain?<br />
* Extra silence at beginning/end?<br />
* 0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end?<br />
<br />
Display of master entities may be disabled--for editors and web services. Tracks would be shown to be related to mixes (track entities themselves would not be displayed either).<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
Represents (in the case of digital audio) the bits written to a medium that represent a waveform (e.g. uncompressed CD audio, decoded MP3 waveform). '''This is for the nerds.''' Again, the existence of such entities must be hidden, unless requested, instead being directly represented by their parent mixes.<br />
<br />
How do we handle digital releases that represent multiple lossy encodings--new release and track IDs for each encoding? Do we ignore lossy vendors and focus on lossless releases only (in terms of creating new track IDs and recording metadata)?<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
These are the default entries recursively created when a new recording or mix is created. They are used by default when linking tracks, unless a more specific mix or master is created and used.<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
MusicBrainz's interface will require extensive modification or re-design to accommodate these new features, as well as resolve current ailments and allow for future extensions modularly.<br />
<br />
Will require huge development time. :(<br />
<br />
Our style guidelines will need to be rethought and vastly improved over our current guidelines; they're currently too vague, in places.<br />
<br />
We need better batch interfaces for relationships.<br />
<br />
[Insert a butt-load of mockups and design ideas]<br />
<br />
==== Relating recordings/mixes to a tracklist ====<br />
<br />
An editor might load a "Recordings" page, similar to the current design, though which allows intuitive, tree-like navigation through Recordings->Mixes[->Masters] and might be a design extension of the current selector. A track may be related to any of the three levels (and unbeknownst to the general editor, bucketed into relevant "catch-all" mixes/masters). Let's keep it easy.<br />
<br />
A similar form of navigation might apply to other types of edits (e.g. advanced relationships).<br />
<br />
==== Relationship editor ====<br />
<br />
If an editor attempts to create a relationship to a catch-all entity (regularly just represented by the first non-catch-all parent), they will be required to create an appropriate entity on the same level (and optionally a non-catch-all parent, if applicable) and link to that new entity.<br />
<br />
==== Disambiguation comments ====<br />
<br />
We should optionally supply a list of common disambiguation comment templates through an HTML 5 [http://developers.whatwg.org/the-button-element.html#the-datalist-element datalist] element. An example list for releases might be as follows:<br />
* deluxe edition<br />
* clean version<br />
* [YEAR] remaster<br />
* [COLOR] vinyl<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
Attach Acoustids to mixes by default. If a master/track-level editor can verify an Acoustid as representing a particular master, remove the Acoustid from the mix (if it exists) and attach it to the master. The mix would inherit the Acoustid, so the general user would see no difference. This may be repeated for the same Acoustid if it belongs to several masters. Semantically, the Acoustid should always be represented at the mix level to allow for ambiguity.<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
The following might be processed by Picard:<br />
<br />
* Waveform hash<br />
* Dynamic Range calculation<br />
* Low-resolution visual waveform (GIF/PNG data)<br />
* Length calculation in ms (perhaps more universal?) or frames (after stripping silence from start and end)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61710User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T09:29:44Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
A conceptual entity which may represent a rough assemblage of studio or live takes, intended to be presented as a piece of recorded music. A bit "meta", unless it's representing a dry, one-track live recording.<br />
<br />
Viewing a recording (via web service or the MusicBrainz website) should also return the nominal mix (most commonly occurring on tracklsts, or a flagged mix--see below).<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
A particular arrangement of the elements of a recording. e.g. stereo mix, surround mix, overdub re-mix, karaoke mix. '''This is generally the level of granularity the consumer cares about.'''<br />
<br />
We should perhaps have the ability to flag a single mix as the "nominal" mix, so that it may be returned with any request for a recording. It may be beneficial to particularly flag the album mix of a recording, so that it is better represented than a hypothetical hugely popular DJ remix.<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
A mix that has had it's audio levels modified to suit a delivery medium and/or artistic purpose. This closely represents the audio the consumer receives. '''Most people probably don't care about masters''' and may become overwhelmed with too many levels of granularity, so their existence must be veiled, unless explicitly requested, and be instead represented by their respective mixes.<br />
<br />
Similar to above, it may be beneficial to flag a nominal master--this might be used to indicate a master that has suffered the least clipping and dynamic range compression.<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
* Gain?<br />
* Extra silence at beginning/end?<br />
* 0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end?<br />
<br />
Display of master entities may be disabled--for editors and web services. Tracks would be shown to be related to mixes (track entities themselves would not be displayed either).<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
Represents (in the case of digital audio) the bits written to a medium that represent a waveform (e.g. uncompressed CD audio, decoded MP3 waveform). '''This is for the nerds.''' Again, the existence of such entities must be hidden, unless requested, instead being directly represented by their parent mixes.<br />
<br />
How do we handle digital releases that represent multiple lossy encodings--new release and track IDs for each encoding? Do we ignore lossy vendors and focus on lossless releases only (in terms of creating new track IDs and recording metadata)?<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
These are the default entities recursively created when a new recording or mix is created. They are used by default when linking tracks, unless a more specific mix or master is created and used.<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
Attach Acoustids to mixes by default. If a master/track-level editor can verify an Acoustid as representing a particular master, remove the Acoustid from the mix (if it exists) and attach it to the master. The mix would inherit the Acoustid, so the general user would see no difference. This may be repeated for the same Acoustid if it belongs to several masters. Semantically, the Acoustid should always be represented at the mix level to allow for ambiguity.<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
The following might be processed by Picard:<br />
<br />
* Waveform hash<br />
* Dynamic Range calculation<br />
* Low-resolution visual waveform (GIF/PNG data)<br />
* Length calculation in ms (perhaps more universal?) or frames (after stripping silence from start and end)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=File:Schema.png&diff=61709File:Schema.png2013-01-07T08:58:00Z<p>Jacobbrett: Jacobbrett uploaded a new version of &quot;File:Schema.png&quot;</p>
<hr />
<div></div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61707User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T08:26:12Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[[File:Schema.png]]<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
Calculating nominal length<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
gain<br />
<br />
extra silence at beginning/end<br />
<br />
0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
Waveforms<br />
<br />
Dynamic Range calculation<br />
<br />
Length calculation (strip silence)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=File:Schema.png&diff=61706File:Schema.png2013-01-07T08:25:22Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61705User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T06:12:20Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[Diagram here]<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
Calculating nominal length<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
gain<br />
<br />
extra silence at beginning/end<br />
<br />
0-1 seconds extra audio at beginning/end<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
Waveforms<br />
<br />
Dynamic Range calculation<br />
<br />
Length calculation (strip silence)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61704User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T05:54:07Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
[Diagram here]<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
Calculating nominal length<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
How can one identify a mix?<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
When to differentiate masters?<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
=== Catch-alls ===<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
Waveforms<br />
<br />
Dynamic Range calculation<br />
<br />
Length calculation (strip silence)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61703User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T05:32:19Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== A Potential Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
Calculating nominal length<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
Waveforms<br />
<br />
Dynamic Range calculation<br />
<br />
Length calculation (strip silence)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61702User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T05:28:51Z<p>Jacobbrett: </p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined. It is heavily inspired by the [[User_talk:Reosarevok/Recording_Issues|thoughts of many others on this matter]].<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate '''mixes''' of a recording, if at all; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit. This large group may include systematic users of MusicBrainz, such as BBC Music.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the '''bit-level'''; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different '''masters''' of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level mentioned above, but close enough.<br />
<br />
=== Why should we care about the nerds? ===<br />
<br />
I think such granularity is required if MusicBrainz desires to have the most quality database of unambiguous information, in fact it should be the absolute destination for music metadata; any extraneous "nerd" data should be able to be ignored if so desired by the common user--this should be reflected in the schema, web-services and most importantly the user interface.<br />
<br />
We need only see point two of MusicBrainz's aims to recognise these long-term requirements:<br />
<br />
<blockquote>MusicBrainz aims to be: '''The universal lingua franca for music''' by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification, enabling both people and machines to have meaningful conversations about music.</blockquote><br />
<br />
== The New Solution ==<br />
<br />
Here is one solution I've devised that I hope would cover practical use-cases mentioned above and more. I think the solution implemented must be the best starting point for additional features into the future, so that we're not stuck redefining and reimplementing existing features to suit. It's especially important to get these features correct sooner rather than later to limit corruption of data quality as the database grows exponentially.<br />
<br />
Obviously, much work would need to be done on use-case and interface testing.<br />
<br />
=== The Schema ===<br />
<br />
==== Recordings ====<br />
<br />
Calculating nominal length<br />
<br />
==== Mixes ====<br />
<br />
==== Masters ====<br />
<br />
==== Tracks ====<br />
<br />
=== The User Interface ===<br />
<br />
=== Extras ===<br />
<br />
==== Acoustids ====<br />
<br />
==== Track entity features ====<br />
<br />
Waveforms<br />
<br />
Dynamic Range calculation<br />
<br />
Length calculation (strip silence)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Recordings&diff=61701User:Jacobbrett/Recordings2013-01-07T05:01:35Z<p>Jacobbrett: Created page with "This article is in the process of being written and refined. == The Big Questions == === What do consumers want? === I think the average person would only care to different..."</p>
<hr />
<div>This article is in the process of being written and refined.<br />
<br />
== The Big Questions ==<br />
<br />
=== What do consumers want? ===<br />
<br />
I think the average person would only care to differentiate mixes of a recording; that is, mono vs. stereo, remix vs. album edit vs. radio edit.<br />
<br />
=== What do nerds want? ===<br />
<br />
Some nerds want to be able to identify audio down to the bit-level; that is, accessing dynamic range information for a piece of audio (e.g., a track on a CD); viewing a waveform representation of said audio; a hash of the (digital) audio, for lookup purposes.<br />
<br />
Otherwise, some nerds want to be able to discern different masters of particular mixes--perhaps a 1970s master vs. a clipped 2000s master or a 2000s master with far less dynamic range. Not at the anal bit-level, but close enough.</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=61286User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-12-04T14:51:45Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant. Usually available at 600px or 1200px (beware of upscaling at 1200px))<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=61096User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-11-12T05:42:38Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Other */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=61095User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-11-12T05:42:28Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Other */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
* [http://ebay.com/ eBay] (To access the highest quality image available, replace the last two digits of a file name “…XX.JPG” with “…10.JPG” or “…57.JPG”)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54984User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-08-20T09:05:35Z<p>Jacobbrett: IODA seems to have been gimped as a 300-DPI source, though is useful for barcodes (digital editions only?)</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54983User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-08-20T08:40:12Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54982User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-08-20T08:39:51Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.theorchard.com/music#block-search_catalog-0 The Orchard]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54959User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-08-18T15:41:19Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://www.myplaydirect.com/ MyPlay Direct], aka Sony Music Entertainment (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54957User talk:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-08-18T14:50:23Z<p>Jacobbrett: New page: ==To review== * Discogs * ecover.to * walmart.ca * walmart.com * http://www.tower.com * hmv.com * hmv.ca * www.hmv.co.jp * rateyourmusic.com * www.encyclopedisque.fr * ozon.ru * Jamendo * ...</p>
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<div>==To review==<br />
* Discogs<br />
* ecover.to<br />
* walmart.ca<br />
* walmart.com<br />
* http://www.tower.com<br />
* hmv.com<br />
* hmv.ca<br />
* www.hmv.co.jp<br />
* rateyourmusic.com<br />
* www.encyclopedisque.fr<br />
* ozon.ru<br />
* Jamendo<br />
* Magnatune</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54780User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-07-23T11:20:41Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Barcodes (digital/physical) */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/search?type=configTitle&s= Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54779User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-07-23T11:19:59Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Barcodes (digital release) */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital/physical)==<br />
* [http://ada-music.com/ Alternative Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54340User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-06-24T22:50:15Z<p>Jacobbrett: Undo revision 54268 by Jacobbrett (Talk)</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital release)==<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54268User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-06-19T04:44:37Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Official sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* <del>[http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])</del><br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital release)==<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54251User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-06-18T16:08:42Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Press releases */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital release)==<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbretthttps://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=User:Jacobbrett/Data_Sources&diff=54241User:Jacobbrett/Data Sources2012-06-17T20:24:30Z<p>Jacobbrett: /* Barcodes (digital release) */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Cover Art==<br />
===Official sources===<br />
* [http://www.3wiserecords.com/releases 3Wise] (Click through to album artwork)<br />
* [http://www.iodalliance.com/catalog IODA: Independent Online Distribution Alliance]<br />
* [http://itunes.apple.com/us iTunes] (replace country code, if relevant)<br />
* [http://www.last.fm/search?q=&type=album Last.fm]: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/<artwork ID>.jpg (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5281 here])<br />
* [http://razorandtiepublicity.com/ Razor & Tie Publicity Services]<br />
* [http://soundcloud.com/search SoundCloud]: http://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-<artwork ID>-original.jpg<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/<barcode here> (Methodology described [http://www.albumartexchange.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1656#p5296 here])<br />
<br />
===Other===<br />
* [http://www.albumartexchange.com/ Album Art Exchange]<br />
* [http://www.allcdcovers.com/ AllCDCovers]<br />
* [http://www.freecovers.net/ FreeCovers] (Requires account; GOLD account allows access to higher‐quality images)<br />
<br />
==Barcodes (digital release)==<br />
* [http://www.getmusic.com.au/ Getmusic], aka Universal Music (Australia) (UPC on product page)<br />
* [http://www.myxer.com/search/?q=&mt=7 Myxer.com] (UPC is contained within album/track webpage header; ringtones appear to have their own UPCs)<br />
* [http://www.universal-music.co.uk/ Universal Music (UK)] (Barcode in product page URL)<br />
<br />
==Press releases==<br />
* Warner Music Group: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:site:http://www.media.wmg-is.com/media/portal/media/cms/docs/ (Append <code>inurl:"xls"</code> or <code>intitle:"<title or artist here>"</code> for catalogue listings and press releases, respectively)</div>Jacobbrett