Useful Editing Tools

Note: this page needs more flesh, to be linked to, and maybe to move to another, more appropriate place.

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/