User:Voiceinsideyou

voiceinsideyou

What I do at MusicBrainz

• I edit. Quite a lot.
  • slowly go through my own CD collection adding missing core data (usually release events, basic URL links etc). This tends to get sidelined by my other editing activities below though, bizarrely.
  • fix other people's edits to the StyleGuidelines and add missing data (typically release events and URL ARs)
  • create and split (disambiguate) artists with the same names based on Discogs, Wikipedia, googling and other sources. Time consuming but rewarding. mudcrow and drsaunde do a lot of this too; they're awesome.
  • the odd back catalogue population stuff, usually drum & bass labels (e.g. Renegade Hardware, Hospital Records), and also New Zealand hip hop artists/labels (which have limited data availability unfortunately)
  • Nine Inch Nails tidying, particularly related to LiveBootlegStyle and other boots.
  • AdvancedRelationship mass-tagging for the odd release I really love. I don't do enough of this.

• I vote, a reasonable amount. We don't have nearly enough voters helping others learn the StyleGuidelines, fixing edits and keeping an eye on destructive edits like merges and removals.
• I actively help users on the forums.
• I read the mailing lists a lot; pipe up on style issues occasionally.
• I try and do bug triaging on MB's Trac BugTracker, for PicardTagger in particular.
• As of August 2008, I'm a TransclusionEditor and am now trying to play an active role in leading, improving and tidying the WikiDocs documentation, particularly around use of the website and Picard.

Wiki pages to keep an eye on

Just a random collection of pages in the Wiki I want to remember.

• CoverArtSites
• FeaturingArtistStyle (lol)
• RatingSystem
• NotYetReleasedReleases
• Edit Conditions (why can I never find this page manually!?)
• HowToChangeCoverArt
• HowPUIDsWork

Things that still aren't clear to me

• how the heck TracksWithMultipleArtists corresponds to MashUps, MedleyStyle, VersusMeansDifferentThings and/or MultipleTitleStyle? I am very confused by how they are supposed to go together in these cases so have been "making up style as I go" I think, in retrospect. e.g. a MashUp :-/
• why LiveBootlegStyle is dead in the water, but used everywhere

Queries I watch

• Open merges, removes, release duration sets and artist edits
• Open English VA release additions
• voiceinsideyou's recently closed non-autoedits
• Open Picard tickets
• FauxFaux's reports page

Useful online resources

• NZ Music Carriers online catalogue listing (EANs + cat#s galore)