User:Yurim

Yurim

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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:

• Where do I ask for help when editing french titles?

• Some of my jazz releases contain french titles. The french capitalization standard requires an editor to understand french which I don't. sigh
  • You can ask me by mail (I'm a native french). Otherwise, you can bug one of the people there -- dmppanda 17:20, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

• 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 do I handle a mixed single artist/various artists disc?

• Examples: The last track of The Police - Reunion Concert 1986 is performed by The Amnesty Allstars. Tracks 5-12 of The Willy DeVille Acoustic Trio - In Berlin (2) are performed by Mink DeVille.

• 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?

• 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.

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.