Useful Editing Tools
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Valuable online databases
URI | Description | Comments (on reliability etc...) |
http://www.discogs.com/ | Discogs | |
http://allmusic.com/ | Allmusic | |
http://en.wikipedia.org/ | Wikipedia | |
http://amazon.com | ||
http://amazon.co.uk | ||
http://amazon.fr | Releases dates often wrong | |
http://amazon.de | Often omits to mark imports as "[Import]" | |
http://www.metal-archives.com | Encyclopaedia_Metallum | |
http://www.encyclopedisque.fr | For French vinyls |
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 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
Description | Where to get | Comment (rating?) |
Track AR links | 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 | |
Display releases urls (AMZ, Discogs, Wikipedia) on the artist page | http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/7947 | |
Shows links to search various sites when viewing MusicBrainz.org | http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6719 | |
Appends the day of the week to all release dates | http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8481 | |
Adds artist+release titles after release+tracks when creating a new relationship, to help distinguish between the two | http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9169 | |
MusicBrainz subscriptions highlight | http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8266 | |
Search for other scripts on userscripts.org | http://userscripts.org/scripts/search?q=musicbrainz |
Other useful tools
- DQSD (Dave's Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar): http://www.dqsd.net/