User:Shepard

Who are you?

I'm Simon, 23 years old, from Germany. I study computer sciences. You can find me on IRC.

What are your prefered scopes on Music Brainz?

GermanArtists, Metal&Gothic bands, splitting artists, from time to time merging artists, adding band members and websites, completly clearing up "small" artists by adding complete releasedates, fixing each and every name, setting languages, correcting album types and adding missing albums. :)

To Do List

• Thinking on how to solve the LegalName / PerformanceName problems.
• Finding a solution for the "person legally changed name to" problem and how to model a band name change. Bands that have to be fixed then:
  • Pretty Suicide is now known as Future 86
  • Erben der Schöpfung (has one cd release) is now known as Elis (with a little different line-up)
  • Global Playboys (has one vinyl release) is now known as Global Deejays
  • Kingdom (has one cd release) is now known as Domain
  • Apocalypse is now known as After Forever

• How to relate exceptional performance names / alias performance names of bands to bands:
  • Die Toten Hosen released some albums under the name Die Roten Rosen
  • Tanzwut is an electronic amplified version of the band Corvus Corax
  • Knorkator released and album under the name High Mud Leader

• Adding some releases/releasedates/band members to some bands :)
• Adding all artists that worked on Ayreon albums and connecting them to the 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/)
• look through compilation series Bargrooves
• Fixing&completing Schiller

To be moved from VA after SG5DisasterRelief:

to Evanescence:

• Not for Your Ears
• The Insanity of Logic
• Unreleased
• Unreleased, Live and Rare, Volume 3

to Nightwish:

• Sacrament of Wilderness
• The Carpenter

to Kruder & Dorfmeister:

• The K&D Sessions (disc 1)
• The K&D Sessions (disc 2)
• The K&D Sessions (disc 2)

to Nena:

• Alles Gute: Die Singles 1982-2002 (disc 1)
• Alles Gute: Die Singles 1982-2002 (disc 2)

to Howard Shore:

• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

to Such a Surge:

• 10 Jahre (disc 2)

to ASP:

• Die Zusammenkunft E.P.

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)
• We need a LinkChecker!

Spoken languages

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