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==Valuable online databases==

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| '''URI''' || '''Description''' || '''Comments''' (on reliability etc...)
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| [http://www.discogs.com/ http://www.discogs.com/] || [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discogs]
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| [http://allmusic.com/ http://allmusic.com/] || [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmusic]
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/] || [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia]
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| [http://amazon.com http://amazon.com]
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| [http://amazon.co.uk http://amazon.co.uk]
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| [http://amazon.fr http://amazon.fr] || || Releases dates often wrong
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| [http://amazon.de http://amazon.de] || || Often omits to mark imports as "[Import]"
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| [http://www.metal-archives.com http://www.metal-archives.com] || [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_Metallum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopaedia_Metallum] ||
|}

About amazon's [Import] label not trustworthy, here is the smoke-proof to check whether the IMPORT is bogus or not on .fr Switch the tld to .de: [http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00004UH7R http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00004UH7R] Check what they have as a label, in this case: Label: France (Megaphon Importservice) => it comes from france, and the [Import] is on .fr is bogus.

==Useful Greasemonkey scripts==

{| border="1"
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| '''Description''' || '''Where to get''' || '''Comment''' (rating?)
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| Track AR links || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6505 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6505] and its patch (does what?) at [http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/murdos?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=trackarlinks-relate-to.patch http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/murdos?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=trackarlinks-relate-to.patch]
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| Display releases urls (AMZ, Discogs, Wikipedia) on the artist page || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7947 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7947]
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| Shows links to search various sites when viewing [[MusicBrainz]].org || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6719 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6719]
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| Appends the day of the week to all release dates || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8481 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8481]
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| Adds artist+release titles after release+tracks when creating a new relationship, to help distinguish between the two || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9169 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9169]
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| [[MusicBrainz]] subscriptions highlight || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8266 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8266]
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| Search for other scripts on userscripts.org || [http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=musicbrainz http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=musicbrainz]
|}

==Other useful tools==

* DQSD (Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar): [http://www.dqsd.net/ http://www.dqsd.net/]
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Latest revision as of 03:53, 19 September 2012

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