User:Yurim

User: Yurim

	IRC: Yurim | Last.fm: Yurim ]
Matthias still studies computer science in Munich, Germany. He doesn't play any instrument and tries to compensate this with his music collection. His interests are broad and include german hiphop, swing, straight rock, sophisticated pop and some obscurities you don't want to be bothered with. He doesn't play any important role in the MusicBrainz community. To set it straight: He's a bloody noob.

Good to know

• MusicBrainz can act as a replacement for cddb.cgi through the CddbGateway.

• This is great but not advertised on the MusicBrainz webpage.

• Fight the spelling balcanization!

• Jazz/Compositions tries to unify the spelling of the most common jazz standards.

• With a little help from my friends ... la la la

• dmppanda points to ModeratorLanguage for help with foreign languages. cadalach admits that he knows Gaelic. great

• Annotations should follow the format in ReleaseAnnotationStyle

• A note from krazykiwi: Don't use wiki formatting when adding release annotations mentioned in ReleaseAnnotationStyle. (http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5842385).

Open questions:

• What to do if a release is in the database but with a different title?

• This did apply to two of my Djang Reinhardt discs and to some of my cheap samplers.
  • First verify that the other title is not bogus and really correspond to an existing alternative edition. If it does, you'll have to decide on a case by case basis if it's worth creating another identical release (but the title). Some discussion about this is found at the bottom of the Jazz page. -- dmppanda 17:20, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

• How can edits be protected?

• Sometimes the spelling is special, some annotations are non-trivial. Is there a way to subscribe to releases instead of artists?
  • At that time, there's only two ways to "protect" stuff: (a) write a big fat warning in the release annotation and/or (b) subscribe to the artists, and vote/watch the changes. Now, there's some discussion on a "new" system for locking: ReleaseLocking and ReleaseLockingDiscussion -- dmppanda 22:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• Is there a better way to handle collaborations?

• Currently the database contains a lot of entries of the form Artist A & Artist B. There must be a better world somewhere.
  • Right now, no there isn't :D. I guess you might want to read NextGenerationSchema (sort of a MusicBrainz Next Gen), and if this point is not already covered there, bring up the issue. -- dmppanda 22:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• When does an artist feature a track, resulting in (feat. artist)?

• Obvious case: The track listing says: 'title (feat. artist)'. But how to tell apart the feature-style from the collaboration style? Is Tom Jones on the Reload album featured by the other artists or is it a various artists release by Tom Jones and ...? And when is an artist important enough to be mentioned as a featuring artist? Ash Sood is mentioned as guest on tracks 1, 7, and 14 of Sheryl Crows album Live From Central Park. Ray Charles sings on Track 5 of the album Victim of Love by Dee Dee Bridgewater.

• Oh my, Big Joe ...

• Are these artists really different? * Joe Turner / Big Joe Turner * Big Joe Williams / Joe Lee Williams * Jelly Roll Morton Trio / Jelly Rolly Morton Trio * Blue Lu Barker / Blu Lu Barker * Big Bill Broonzy / Big Boy Broonzy / Big Bill Brooney / Big Bill Broozy
  • They need to be investigated: check the songs, search the artists on the web. If they are the same songs in both artists, chances are good it's the same artist (you don't have to check "Jelly Roll Morton", still, just merge it :)). Now if you don't have time to investigate yourself, you might want to put this list somewhere else in your page, in a section like "TODO" or "Editing Suggestions", and someone will/might check them. -- dmppanda 20:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Disclaimer

I think this is a good place to collect open questions and resolved issues. Drop me a line if I'm wrong. I will delete this page then.

• Please don't delete it. It's your page after all ;). Now, maybe this is not the most appropriate place to ask questions, as most people won't notice (errr... well, that leaves you with answers from the "not-most" people :p). There are two good places for fast answers: the users mailing list, and IRC. -- dmppanda 20:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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