User:Shepard

Who are you?

I'm Simon, 24 years old, from Germany. I study computer sciences. You can find me on IRC.

What are your prefered scopes on Music Brainz?

GermanArtists, Metal, Prog & Gothic bands mainly but also lots of other stuff. Excessive ARing from liner notes, adding release data (ReleaseAnnotationStyle), cleaning up artists I stumble over.

To Do List

• Thinking about some general problems:
  • Artist type "project" and related ARs
  • Renaming of OtherVersionRelationshipType
  • PerformanceRestructuringProposal
  • Roles of band members
  • Orchestras/choirs on rock albums

• Completing and fixing compilation series (http://www.musiksampler.de/)
• Fixing Falco
• Fixing Enigma
• Generation Fernseh-Kult (http://www.soundtrack-world.de/Generation-Fernseh-Kult-_102/soundtrack.html, http://www.cover-paradies.to/?fCall=ShowEntryById&vId=47001, http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Y3KG/qid=1125882312/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_11_1/028-0257522-3051716, http://www.hi-hat.de/)

• don't forget http://193.138.231.156/~cover/?fCall=ShowEntryById&vId=42762

• look through compilation series Bargrooves
• Fixing&completing Schiller

Compilation series watch list

• Café del Mar: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=cafe+del+mar
• Buddha-Bar: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=buddha+bar and http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=Amnesty+International%3A+40th+Anniversary
• Kontor: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=kontor
• Hed Kandi: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=hed+kandi
• Ministry of Sound: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=ministry+of+sound
• Real Ibiza: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=real+ibiza and vol.3 which does not appear in this search: disc 1, disc 2
• Café Ibiza: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=cafe+ibiza
• Cafe Mambo: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=Caf%C3%A9+Mambo (these two include other series)
• Ambient Lounge: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=ambient+lounge
• Elemental Chill: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=elemental+chill
• Private Lounge: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=private+lounge
• Bravo Hits: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=bravo+hits or http://musicbrainz.org/browsevarious.html?index=BRAVO
• Fetenhits: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=fetenhits
• Booom: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=booom
• The Dome: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=the+dome
• Kuschelrock: http://musicbrainz.org/newsearch.html?limit=0&table=album&search=kuschelrock

Editing suggestions

• Go through searches mixed by and compiled by, add according relationships to the albums and - if it does not clearly belong to the title - delete the "mixed by"/"compiled by" phrase from the album title.
• Go through search for tribute to and add TributeRelationshipType ARs to the albums.

Ideas for reports / scripts

• Albums of type live/bootleg with a release date set (if the date is the performance date then delete it)

• Why? We have a group here in Italy that sells copies of the show just at the end of it. --ClutchEr2

• ARs of the DiscogsRelationshipType which contain one of the strings e.discogs funksoul.discogs hiphop.discogs latin.discogs jazz.discogs reggae.discogs rock.discogs (were only 4 when last checked; those are to be replaced by the more general URL form www.discogs)
• Albums which have a last track called [data track] (still people use this style but don't delete it; nikki had a script for this)
• Missuse of Artist--Artist relationships (example: bands being members of artists, artists being members of persons)
• We need a LinkChecker!

Spoken languages

(well it's more than "some" but it's far from fluent ;) )