Announcing yambs (Yet Another MusicBrainz Seeder)

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I just updated yambs.erat.org to add support for seeding edits against all of the recordings in a release.

To add disambiguations to follow the live recordings style guidelines, you could set “Source” to “Edit release recordings”, enter cf731f61-d8ba-438a-b346-644456fd27e2 as a release MBID, and then enter the following data in the textarea:

disambiguation=live, 2008-12-07: Rose Garden, Portland, OR, USA
edit_note=update for https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Recording#Live_recordings

To update artist credits to follow the classical recording artist guidelines, you could enter release MBID 6d71e03a-a7d6-4c4d-a645-b279b8a07b77 and the following data:

artist0_mbid=2fcffd9a-f02a-4a2c-8085-6257f918949d
artist0_credited=Pau Casals
edit_note=[Style/Classical/Recording_Artist]

Please let me know if you give it a try and run into problems (either via the issue tracker or here).

(And just to mention it, I suspect that there are also userscripts that editors already use for these sorts of tasks, in case that’s more your thing.)

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is there any way that we could get yambs to accept dates in a format like 19990813 instead of it being 1999-08-13?

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Sure! That’s easy to do and doesn’t seem like it’ll conflict with anything, so I’ve added it. I’ve updated the server, but let me know if it’d also be helpful if I created a new release of the command-line program too.

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I had a recent desire to add a bunch of music that had only been posted to Soundcloud, so I added support for seeding single releases from Soundcloud track pages. Things will hopefully just work if you past a track URL (https://soundcloud.com/<artist>/<song>) into the URL field at yambs.erat.org, but please let me know via the issue tracker if you run into any trouble.

There’s no support for Soundcloud album or playlist/set pages since most of what I’ve seen those used for is either albums that were previously released elsewhere or grab-bags of tracks that were uploaded at different times.

I’m also aware that using single releases vs. standalone recordings for Soundcloud is an unresolved topic. It’s likely that I’ll add a checkbox soon to support seeding standalone recordings instead for times when that seems more appropriate.

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