Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 37, Issue 5

2008-05-09 Thread Brian Gurtler
AFAIK (maybe luks can correct me here if i'm wrong) gracenote doesn't even use the discIDs that MB uses. they use patteneted fuzzy methods that allow "discids" that differ slightly to point to the same data set. so in a way, yes.. they do have all "homebrew" IDs if not most. as to my understanding

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Brian Gurtler
I'm a little out of the loop.. is MB hurting on disk space? removing DiscIDs is preventing people from using MBs data and forcing them to use gracenote or other such services. you say "concept of burning downloaded music is in itself old fashioned" i say..to quote The Dude 'that's like.. your opi

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:30:07 +0100 > From: Nikki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title > To: MusicBrainz style discussion > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:59:33AM

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
range music in their libraries by tags, not by > directory. So he wants a way to get the (single) mention in the mp3 > tags, not necessarily in our database. > > On 5/4/06, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Gurtler wrote: >> > Steve Wyles wrote: &g

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
Steve Wyles wrote: > On Thu, 4 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> Steve Wyles wrote: >>> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: >>> >>>> Steve Wyles wrote: >>>>> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: >>>>> &g

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
Steve Wyles wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> Steve Wyles wrote: >>> On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: >>> >>>> i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the >>>> same >>>> name.

Re: [mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
Steve Wyles wrote: > On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same >> name. >> For example Morphine has an album titled "Cure for Pain" they also have >> a single "Cure for Pain&q

[mb-style] albums and single with the same title

2006-05-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
i think we need a way to differentiate singles form albums with the same name. For example Morphine has an album titled "Cure for Pain" they also have a single "Cure for Pain" as well. I have both ripped and tagged but they end up in the same folder. Also if i physically move one of them to another

Re: [mb-style] AR philosophy

2006-05-02 Thread Brian Gurtler
Simon Reinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions about linking philosophy which I think need to be > generally clearified because if every moderator follows their own > concepts then we don't have consistent data. > > 1. Link performers to releases: > a) always, including members of bands

Re: [mb-style] Album attributes

2006-05-01 Thread Brian Gurtler
i am all for some kind of selective album attributes restructuring! to me this has been a long time coming and should be addressed. it's something that I've had trouble with very early on. does anyone know the status of any proposals that touch on this subject? Any way to get that whole thing going

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-26 Thread Brian Gurtler
Peter Adams wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 15:57, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> actually adding (live) to every single track on a live album is "more >> complicated" not to mention redundant. > > Why "more complicated"? Who are you quoting there? ha

Re: [mb-style] Bootleg locations

2006-04-25 Thread Brian Gurtler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 has deciding which language to use for a bootleg release become much of an issue on MB yet? i know that i previously said that the information should be the same as on the ticket of the event.. but now I'm starting to feel that we shouldn't have a guid

Re: [mb-style] Bootleg locations

2006-04-22 Thread Brian Gurtler
great email Nikki wrote: > Hi, > > I was curious about the distribution of countries for bootlegs [1] and I > noticed that the untitled bootleg style [2] doesn't really consist of much > and live bootleg style [3] still doesn't expand the location very much. A > general style appears to have emer

Re: [mb-style] proper capitalization in AR types

2006-04-21 Thread Brian Gurtler
same. Nikki wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 08:26:44PM +0200, Lukáš Lalinský wrote: >> I want to do a few trivial changes to AR type phrases, but I'd like to >> check here if nobody disagrees. > > I agree, ASIN in lower case has been bugging me for a while! > > --Nikki > ___

Re: [mb-style] background vocal -> backing vocal

2006-04-16 Thread Brian Gurtler
whats wrong with "background vocal" and what is the purpose of a change to "backing"? were all instances of "background vocal" in wikis and documentation changed to reflect that change? it should stay as "background vocal" unless its discussed and agreed to change. If everyone else on MB has to go

Re: [mb-style] [RFV] MySpace AR request

2006-04-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
; The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. > Cornelius Tacitus > >> -----Original Message- >> From: Brian Gurtler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 2:09 PM >> To: Cristov Russell >> Cc: 'MusicBrainz

Re: [mb-style] [RFV] MySpace AR request

2006-04-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
searching for Lance Bass.. "no results match your request" Cristov Russell wrote: >> i'm all for this AR type. >> it's fairly easy to tell which myspace band pages are >> official and which are not... this is where voting will come >> in no? if someone think it's not official than they can vote

Re: [mb-style] [RFV] MySpace AR request

2006-04-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
nnecessary maintenance of dead links. Also the proposal says "Try to find the most active, or preferred page supported by someone involved with the artist or group." which to me reads official or officially sanctioned. no ones going to laugh at you for pointing a URL to a bands offici

Re: [mb-style] [RFV] MySpace AR request

2006-04-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
why should it not be official? if you want to link to a fan site, use the fan site AR, no? :) Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > 2006/4/15, Brian Gurtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> i'm all for this AR type. >> it's fairly easy to tell which myspace band pages are official

Re: [mb-style] [RFV] MySpace AR request

2006-04-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
i'm all for this AR type. it's fairly easy to tell which myspace band pages are official and which are not... this is where voting will come in no? if someone think it's not official than they can vote "no". Cristov Russell wrote: >> Beth wrote: >>> With MySpace's growing popularity. There are so

Re: [mb-style] ok i'm wrong.. what about a performance date field for DVDs? (was WTF DVD?)

2006-04-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
Chris Bransden wrote: > On 04/04/06, Brian Gurtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> what about an option to give live releases 2 titles? >> one with the live/bootleg style and one with any possible DVD title or >> even bootleg title? be able to select one of the two when

[mb-style] ok i'm wrong.. what about a performance date field for DVDs? (was WTF DVD?)

2006-04-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
of DVD release status as a whole. Yes, it'll still have to be > decided for the case when people want to add information about a rip > where the actual chapters do not directly line up with the official > tracklist. For the cases where people just want to add the official > trac

Re: [mb-style] WTF DVD? (was: Veto - DVD in album titles)

2006-04-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
he determinate of what is Official or > Bootleg. > > Cristov (wolfsong) > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Brian Gurtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: MusicBrainz style discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [mb-style] WTF DVD? (was: Veto

Re: [mb-style] WTF DVD? (was: Veto - DVD in album titles)

2006-04-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
Beth wrote: > My thoughts... > > Q1. Which DVDs to add? > A1. All DVD musical rips. > Arguments: it was argued MB was a music database. Music > DVD's are based on music and bands. That in itself seems to be a good reason > to add them. If MB is supposed to be an archive of band's music at

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
actually adding (live) to every single track on a live album is "more complicated" not to mention redundant. Björn Krombholz wrote: > On 4/3/06, Brian Gurtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "trackname (live)" should not appear on any track on any live album. >

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
i misread i guess. sorry. Chris Bransden wrote: > i wasn't talking about live albums :) > > On 03/04/06, Brian Gurtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "trackname (live)" should not appear on any track on any live album. >> the album that the track resides

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
"trackname (live)" should not appear on any track on any live album. the album that the track resides on tells us that it's live. Chris Bransden wrote: > both, IMO. i don't want a non-album track with 'TrackName (live)' as > the title. but then, we also say that tracknames should be 'TrackName >

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
i'd rather "(live) (acoustic)" be "(live acoustic)" perhaps this could be a special case of a "track version"? Nikki wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:37:39PM +0200, Jan van Thiel wrote: >> I've made some tiny changes to LiveTrackStyle ( >> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/LiveTrackStyle ) and belie

Re: [mb-style] LiveTrackStyle

2006-04-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
I'm not against a style to be used for naming live tracks. with this proposition, I'd like to see clarification on when to use these 10 proposed certain styles as well as exactly which parts of the proposal apply to non-album tracks only any of those ten examples would be okay to use? are cities op

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding this in IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-27 Thread Brian Gurtler
you have something to say. This is certainly nothing of > interest, and documents why you are facing unwillingness if you request > something. > > g0llum > >> Behalf Of Brian Gurtler >> Sent: Dienstag, 28. März 2006

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding thisin IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-27 Thread Brian Gurtler
looks whose whining now.. Robert Kaye wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Jan van Thiel wrote: >> I think that if e.g. inhouseuk (sorry to (ab)use your name, just >> giving an example), a moderator with a spotless record, had requested >> these, they would've been added almost instantaneously

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding thisin IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-27 Thread Brian Gurtler
incessant whining? and you call Me confrontational.. Robert Kaye wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2006, at 4:53 AM, Don Redman wrote: >> Well, then I'd say we should add this now and let Brian add the >> appropriate Relationships. >> >> I mean if we finally have a rule, we should use it :-) > > Yes, but...

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding thisin IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-26 Thread Brian Gurtler
yes it's true. i am not making this stuff up. :) i have been in the process of trying to compile a full list of times that Jon Fishman alone has used the vacuum as an instrument out of all Phish live bootleg recordings. Phish also offer hundreds of official recordings (actual CDs as well as downloa

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-25 Thread Brian Gurtler
lly make it to the main server, too, OK :-) > > BTW what is it instrument/other or instrument/wind/other? > > DonRedman Don Redman wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 05:37:02 +0100, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> at least one album and a ton of live shows >> it's al

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding thisin IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Gurtler
As far as i know the position of "Instrument Secretary" is not held by anyone (including DonRedman) and is still open and available. i didn't call anyone specifically spineless. So I don't see that as confrontational. I'm saying in jest, give the position to someone who will flip-flop and not beca

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding thisin IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Gurtler
I've been waiting over 3 months for an instrument to be added to MB and jumped through way too many bullshit hoops to get to where we are now. i'm just looking for it to be added without any further hoops like i was told by Redman that it would be once Mos thingy went live. It's been live for over

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding this in IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Gurtler
> conflict and your confrontational style would not make you a good link > editor -- in my opinion. > > I'm sorry. > > On Mar 6, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> i have interest in this "Instrument Secretary" thing. >> >> Robert Kaye w

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Gurtler
at least one album and a ton of live shows it's already been established that it will be added as per Redman i'm tired of requesting it. just add the vacuum like our "minister" said he would. Robert Kaye wrote: > > On Mar 22, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Brian Gurtler wrote

Re: [mb-style] Two issues here

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Gurtler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 agreed! i have had similar problems before and it's quite annoying and ballsy. In fact I wouldn't mind if this type of action resulted in temporary loss of privileges. automoderators != all knowing Marco Sola wrote: > > 2) Also IMHO, approving modera

Re: [mb-style] Two issues here

2006-03-24 Thread Brian Gurtler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco Sola wrote: > - > > 2) Also IMHO, approving moderation with pending Nos should be a) > disabled b) anyway avoided by any automod. > agreed! i have had similar problems before and it's quite annoying and ballsy. In fact I wouldn't mind if

Re: REQ: BitTornado 0.3.15

2006-03-23 Thread Brian Gurtler
e > can get this for Breezy. > > Probably it won't go into Dapper due to UVF either, so this may be a > Dapper+1 backports to Breezy/Dapper. > > On 3/23/06, *Brian Gurtler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > http://www.bittorn

Re: REQ: BitTornado 0.3.15

2006-03-23 Thread Brian Gurtler
se contact one of these two > (Debian maintainer, Ubuntu MOTU) about pulling in a new package, then we > can get this for Breezy. > > Probably it won't go into Dapper due to UVF either, so this may be a > Dapper+1 backports to Breezy/Dapper. > > On 3/23/06, *Brian Gurtl

REQ: BitTornado 0.3.15

2006-03-23 Thread Brian Gurtler
http://www.bittornado.com/download.html trackers i use regularly started banning any earlier versions i do not believe that it is using any new libraries that the version in breezy isn't already using thanks -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-22 Thread Brian Gurtler
mos thingy is live. now can we have our vacuum cleaner? Don Redman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:07:46 +0100, Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> i still don't believe that UI related issues are a good enough reason to >> exclude instruments. > > No indeed they are not.

Re: [mb-style] Instrument/vocal member of on TEST

2006-03-13 Thread Brian Gurtler
why does it even have to be a sentence? they're too long :P personally I'd like to see something more like this in the relationship box of the artist. [instrument] for [artist] - [start date]-[end date] electric bass guitar for The Toy Dolls - 1985-1989 or something to that effect. you won't even

Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/deciding this in IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-06 Thread Brian Gurtler
i have interest in this "Instrument Secretary" thing. Robert Kaye wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Don Redman wrote: >> No not a single Instrument, but I think that Mo's wholly new instrment >> tree does need testing. For example it might need some "other" leaves, >> but this is difficult t

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-06 Thread Brian Gurtler
Don Redman wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:38:11 +0100, derGraph wrote: > >> I've found a nice definition of musical instruments on >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument: >> >>> Musical instruments are devices designed to produce music [...] >> >> Maybe we could use this definition to not end

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-06 Thread Brian Gurtler
how are they credited on the album? were they played live or sampled and dubbed? i've heard of Stomp Unless theres a credit to each garbage can lid, PVC pipe, etc.. those instruments would be Percussion. derGraph wrote: > >> do you actually have albums with book, coffee mug, matchbox being >> "

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-06 Thread Brian Gurtler
no. do you actually have albums with book, coffee mug, matchbox being "played"? or are you trying to prevent "random objects" from being added? derGraph wrote: > I've found a nice definition of musical instruments on > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument: > >> Musical instruments are devic

Re: [mb-style] request: "cover of" album-album relationship

2006-03-05 Thread Brian Gurtler
Lukáš Lalinský wrote: > We can. Added. > thanks! ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] request: "cover of" album-album relationship

2006-03-05 Thread Brian Gurtler
on the original album/track page, it should probably read "albumtitle covered by coverartist" which shows both that the album/track was covered, and by whom in one line. -b. azertus wrote: > Don Redman schreef: >> The link phrase sounds weirt to my (nonnative) ears: "Natty Dread is >> covered by N

Re: [mb-style] Veto - DVD in album titles

2006-03-05 Thread Brian Gurtler
I'm still confused as to why are we putting DVDs into MB? MB has no way of providing information to DVD players does it? like i said my opinion is if it's a DVD of a concert or performance, it doesn't belong in MB unless it's added as a bootleg. the word DVD won't even be an issue as the title woul

[mb-style] request: "cover of" album-album relationship

2006-03-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
"cover of" should be an option and should go under the existing sub group "covers or other versions" Charlie Hunter Quartet - Natty Dread [1] _is a cover of_ Bob Marley - Natty Dread [2] I've opened a ticket for this at http://test.musicbrainz.org/trac/ticket/1097 http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Cov

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-02 Thread Brian Gurtler
Björn Krombholz wrote: > On 3/2/06, Jan van Thiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 3/2/06, Simon Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>More "votes" on this, please! >> >>I haven't replied to this thread so far, because I thought it was a >>trivial question. Guess not. > > > Me neither, beca

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-03-02 Thread Brian Gurtler
getting this type of data added to MB in order to create those relationships. Simon Reinhardt wrote: > Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> I've entered this into trac a while ago (12/13/05) and now it's in MB >> limbo >> http://test.musicbrainz.org/trac/ticket/63 >>

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-02-28 Thread Brian Gurtler
Don Redman wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:07:46 +0100, Brian Gurtler wrote: > > BTW what is it instrument/other or instrument/wind/other? > > either one i suppose. this question shouldn't exist there are way too many categories ___

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-02-28 Thread Brian Gurtler
well why not remove all instruments that are currently not used- orphaned instruments? than set up a way to add instruments to be used in relationships. the database will build itself as they are needed. and in a perfect world should be quick and not stop the progress of entering the relationship i

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-02-28 Thread Brian Gurtler
Matthew Exon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Agreed. If the list gets unmanageable, > > > It's unmanageable *now*, is my point. Turn off JavaScript. I mean that > entirely seriously. Please, right now, turn off JavaScript in your > browser, and keep it like that for the next month.

Re: [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-02-28 Thread Brian Gurtler
Matthew Exon wrote: > Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> Does anyone have a good reason to not add an instrument that an artist >> plays? > > > Yes. The more instruments get added, the longer the list of instruments > gets, and the harder the drop-down list is to use

[mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner

2006-02-28 Thread Brian Gurtler
I've entered this into trac a while ago (12/13/05) and now it's in MB limbo http://test.musicbrainz.org/trac/ticket/63 anyhow.. not to get too far ahead of myself, i don't see any reason to be bashful with what instruments can be added into MB. Slowing down the addition of instruments slows down t

Re: [mb-style] why credit non-classical tracks on soundtracks in a classical manner?

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Gurtler
Alexander Dupuy wrote: > The logic of the "classical manner" as you call it, but more accurately > would be "composer preference" for soundtracks was and is to avoid VA > albums where possible. > this isn't a various artist album it's a Greg Edmonson album with a track by Sonny Rhodes with recent

Re: [mb-style] why credit non-classical tracks on soundtracks in a classical manner?

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Gurtler
Alexander Dupuy wrote: > I wrote: > >> In your particular case, since Joss Whedon is the composer of the >> track in question, it makes more sense to consider it part of the >> score, and to leave Joss Whedon as the primary artist. It is entirely >> appropriate to add AR relationships to the trac

[mb-style] the process of getting instruments added to MB

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Gurtler
what is the EXACT processes someone should follow for getting instruments added to MB live in a timely manner? and by timely manner i mean less than months or weeks. Don? ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://li

Re: [mb-style] why credit non-classical tracks on soundtracks in a classical manner?

2006-02-21 Thread Brian Gurtler
URL update - [1] http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4290986 [2] http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4293615 Brian Gurtler wrote: > regarding http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SoundtrackStyle > why should non-classical tracks on a soundtrack be forced into following > the classi

Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] SG5DR ClassicalStyleGuide Change Proposal

2006-02-18 Thread Brian Gurtler
so uh.. how do we go about proposing changes and getting things done again? it changes so often that i can't keep up. I'd like to see the ClassicalStyleGuide changed as well as part of http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SoundtrackStyle that relate to Classical styles see discussion at http://lists.music

[mb-style] why credit non-classical tracks on soundtracks in a classical manner?

2006-02-18 Thread Brian Gurtler
regarding http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SoundtrackStyle why should non-classical tracks on a soundtrack be forced into following the classical music tracks artist? why does it matter if it's _pre-existing_ non-classical or _brand new_ non-classical? non-classical is non-classical is non-classical..

Re: [mb-style] Phone boolegs (was DVD in album titles)

2006-02-18 Thread Brian Gurtler
Orion wrote: Basically what I'm > wondering is at what point does a bootleg establish a high enough level > of existance to warrant inclusion? maybe once a source is established within db.etree.org? ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@li

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
Orion wrote: > Brian Gurtler wrote: > >>> Which isn't a very helpful definition of bootleg. What is it about it >>> that makes it a bootleg even though it's an officially released DVD? >>> >> >> >> I've already explained th

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
Orion wrote: > Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> which is basicly making a bootleg audio CD out of a DVD. Same as if you >> were to record the audio from a television performance on the late show >> with David Letterman. >> If it were an official release, you would have

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
mud crow wrote: > I think you are all looking at this from the wrong angle. > If I own a DVD I can simply type the track details into MB, no need to > rip anything or copy anything, exactly as I do with vinyl or tape. Or I > could enter more precise data and rip the dvd and add times to the > trac

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
Orion wrote: > Brian Gurtler wrote: > >> no, it would not leave the entire database as bootleg. it would make the >> live concert DVD rips bootlegs where the source is the DVD (aka DSBD as >> far as live recording sources are labled outside of MB). >> Please expan

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-14 Thread Brian Gurtler
Cristov Russell wrote: Jan van Thiel wrote: >> > > Another question is: what DVDs do we allow to be added? >> Audio DVD for >> >>certain, but what about video DVD rips and the like? >> >>-- >>Jan van Thiel >> >> live DVD rips (IMO) should be added as

Re: [mb-style] DVD in album titles

2006-02-14 Thread Brian Gurtler
live DVD rips (IMO) should be added as live/bootleg and follow the live/bootleg naming scheme. -b. Jan van Thiel wrote: > Another question is: what DVDs do we allow to be added? Audio DVD for > certain, but what about video DVD rips and the like? > > -- > Jan van Thiel > __

Re: [mb-style] PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass & the goal of MB

2006-01-31 Thread Brian Gurtler
ink if we try to recognise every single relationship one entity > can have with another, without having some kind of free text entry > system for bespoke non-musical/rare relationships, then the system > becomes less useful for the common stuff. > > On 30/01/06, Brian Gurtler <[

wxPython 2.6.1

2006-01-30 Thread Brian Gurtler
I need wxPython 2.6.1.x or higher, I was told this is in dapper/universe can this be backported to breezy? -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports

Re: [mb-style] PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass & the goal of MB

2006-01-30 Thread Brian Gurtler
i'd rather just see the particular AR disapear and put the information in an anotation on the artists page. ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: Approved Backports: libgpod, rhythmbox (0.9.2)

2006-01-25 Thread Brian Gurtler
ok, so now what? what exactly is the issue and how can it be fixed? how should I go about getting the latest version of rythmbox now? John Dong wrote: > not gonna build, the way it looks. > > On 1/19/06, *Brian Gurtler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>

Re: Approved Backports: libgpod, rhythmbox (0.9.2)

2006-01-19 Thread Brian Gurtler
what is the status of this? John Dong wrote: > looks like a new dbus dep is blocking Rhythmbox... > > On 1/3/06, *Brian Puccio* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 09:00 -0500, Brian Gurtler wrote: > > how

Re: [mb-style] vocal type should be optional

2006-01-15 Thread Brian Gurtler
a track where the artist is credited with "vocals" on the album. a track when the artist isn't singing lead vocals or background vocal. a track where it is not know if the vocals they contribute are lead or background. sorry i don't have a specific track example on hand, i don't remember which trac

Re: [mb-style] Re: vocal type should be optional

2006-01-14 Thread Brian Gurtler
perfect. that is a beautiful thing. Lukas Lalinsky wrote: > Lukas Lalinsky wrote: > > I've already changed it on the test server. Here is an example: > > http://musicbrainz.org/track/379c1695-e938-4cac-aaf0-56b49755fbad.html > > Whoops, correct link is: > http://test.musicbrainz.org/track/379c169

Re: Approved Backports: libgpod, rhythmbox (0.9.2)

2006-01-03 Thread Brian Gurtler
how long until this hits the repository? James Troup wrote: >John Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>rhythmbox is approved for backporting from Dapper to Breezy. It, however, >>needs source package libgpod's debs in order to build and install. Since >>this is a new library in Dapper, it's

Re: Approved Backports: libgpod, rhythmbox (0.9.2)

2005-12-27 Thread Brian Gurtler
Reinhard Tartler wrote: >On 12/27/05, Brian Gurtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>is this available now? >>I'm not seeing it in synaptic and I've reloaded several times. >>I just want to make sure i haven't done something incorrectly >>

Re: Approved Backports: libgpod, rhythmbox (0.9.2)

2005-12-27 Thread Brian Gurtler
is this available now? I'm not seeing it in synaptic and I've reloaded several times. I just want to make sure i haven't done something incorrectly James Troup wrote: >John Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>rhythmbox is approved for backporting from Dapper to Breezy. It, however, >>needs

Re: [mb-style] RT, Trac and Subversion

2005-12-23 Thread Brian Gurtler
there doesn't seem to be password recovery in trac unless an email is set after creating an account... which seems easy to miss. is there a way to set it up so that it asks for an email address while registering? -b. Robert Kaye wrote: > [ Cross posted to mb-style FYI -- please respond to via the

Re: VLC and Mono Backports

2005-11-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
is there and Ubuntu bit torrent tracker you could use to distribute it? Chris Peterman wrote: >Bingo :P > >Actually I posted my results on the VLC package on the Backports Forum >and suddenly got swamped for requests that I couldn't handle due to my >lack of webspace. I sent a few out via email,

VLC 0.8.4 for hoary

2005-10-14 Thread Brian Gurtler
can this be added to backports? http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/graphics/vlc http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/graphics/vlc -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports

request for BitTornado-0.3.13

2005-10-12 Thread Brian Gurtler
http://www.bittornado.com/download.html please. thanks. -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports

launchpad-integration for hoary

2005-10-04 Thread Brian Gurtler
is this possible to backport? -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports

rhythmbox 0.9.0 for hoary

2005-09-30 Thread Brian Gurtler
could someone please backport Rythmbox 0.9.0 for hoary? thanks http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin//search_packages.pl?version=all&subword=0&exact=1&arch=any&releases=all&case=insensitive&keywords=Rhythmbox&searchon=names -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com http://l

Re: GnomeBaker

2005-09-29 Thread Brian Gurtler
WFM. burnt an audio CD from FLAC files and it is fine. thanks. have been waiting for this package for a while. John Dong wrote: > Alright, built and in Mirrormax hoary-backports-staging. Please test and report back (looks functional from my end burning a simple CD-RW) > > On 9/29/05, *John Dong*

Re: request: electricsheep 2.6.3

2005-09-09 Thread Brian Gurtler
noted. thanks. Martin Meredith wrote: >Please see my comment attached to the bug > >Brian Gurtler wrote: > > >>I've reported the bug to xscreensaver and they said that it's a >>backports issue >>http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13299 >&g

Re: request: electricsheep 2.6.3

2005-09-09 Thread Brian Gurtler
can't be solved via the > Backports team. If it really bothers you, file a bug against either > electricsheep or xscreensaver in Ubuntu's Bugzilla. > > > On 9/9/05, *Brian Gurtler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > could someo

Re: request: electricsheep 2.6.3

2005-09-09 Thread Brian Gurtler
ectricsheep or xscreensaver in Ubuntu's Bugzilla. > > > On 9/9/05, *Brian Gurtler* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > could someone do a backport of this? > the version currently in backports [2.6.2] hasn'

request: electricsheep 2.6.3

2005-09-09 Thread Brian Gurtler
could someone do a backport of this? the version currently in backports [2.6.2] hasn't ever worked do to some kind of error.. Unpacking electricsheep (from .../electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/electricsheep_2.6.2-1~5.04ubp1_i386.deb (--unp

Re: GnomeBaker ...

2005-08-30 Thread Brian Gurtler
i would love to see this as well. there have been many requests for this on the Ubuntu forums. Miguel P.C. wrote: > Hello. > > I'm wondering if it could be possible to add GnomeBaker 0.4.2 to de > ubuntu-backports. > > http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/ > > Right now the avaliable version from un