Asking for help adding releases thread

7 day waits are normal for that kind of change. It is why it is worth focusing on when you make the new release.

But no worries. Nothing is a rush in MB. Perfection does not have to happen instantly.

Should speed up if you get some votes.

Also, if you only just added this Release then you can at least fix the Release Group with an edit of your Release within 24 hours.

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Yeah, did this afternoon.. Picking random CD’s to rip.. (It’s helping put them in order as I do..:slight_smile: ) Just lots to do, and MB to learn…

I think the box set of classicals is going to be a long winded chore.

This may have been the one I created?

Don’t think so. You started from a different Discogs page. If you had duplicated something there would now be two CD icons there like this:

And that is nearly always a mistake (and is in this eample). There should generally be a one to one link between MB and Discogs.

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Took me a few years to get through my collection… with the slight side issue that MB sent me off down rabbit holes of buying way more CDs from Ebay. :joy:

Pick the simpler ones to start with. Especially the lesser known artists. It is easier to get them right than something with a decades long production run. That classical box will be an interestingly complex side quest.

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I’m cracking on with my collection, most is OK.

I was starting my Genesis Archive, Came across https://www.discogs.com/release/833012-Genesis-Archive-1967-75

Seems all the parenthesis info is missing for all disks,but mainly CD 3 & 4

Is this a minor bit of info missing, should the tracks be updated. The card, booklet all have the () info, whats the best practice??

In the language of MB that is called “ETI” or “Extra Title Information”. On a tracklist like this is should be included as entered on the track list on the paperwork.

In this case, most of that info has been moved into the disambiguation.

If it was one whole gig, then it makes sense to strip out the ETI and only have disambig. But as it is tracks from various different gigs then the ETI should be part of the tracklist.

You could leave it like that and just change your tagging to include that bit.

$set(title,%title%$if(%_recordingcomment%, \(%_recordingcomment%\),))
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The MB release tracklists should be fixed to include comments seen on the printed tracklists, IMO:

And medium titles should be also set, from printed CD titles.

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Thanks guys, I think that’s a little clearer than ‘mud’.. Jeeze, who wrote the ETI help info?? :grinning_face:

Seems there are two options, I think Jesus is stating the track list should include the detail in the brackets as shown on the included card and page 75-78 of the booklet, (I don’t mind updating).

Or Leave ‘as is’, rip and use the picard script from Ivan to add the detail post rip with a file rename to match. (needs a little work on picard linux, it errors when pasted)

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Don’t understand why the forum changes the text I paste. Have now repaired the errors it added. Should not be that many \ in there.

As @jesus2099 says, the correct ETI is what is printed on the paperwork. But there are some editors who strip everything out that is in brackets due to misreading the ETI guidelines.

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Thanks guys, I will go through and add the info.

I’d rather it be correct.. (it all adds to the steep learning curve)

I’ll try the updated one liner script Ivan, thanks for the fix.

Hi Guys, can you give this a once over:

Had to build from scratch, the import from Discogs was weird..

On the DVD - open up each Recording and tick the “Video” box on the recording.

Imports from discogs can get confused if the sections are not setup correctly at the Discogs end. I assume you just gone one big single media tracklist?

When that happens to me I make use of the < Track Parser > button on the Tracklist page. Then you can copy\paste the track list and make a new medium for it.

Your annotation is a bit of a mess:

Graphic Design – A?Robert Dansereau
Mixed By, Mastered By – John Mitchell (5)
Music By – Clive Nolan
Producer – A?ProgRock.com’s Essentials

These can all be set as Release Relationships.

The (5) makes little sense in the MB world.

You are getting the hang of this. :slight_smile:

I used the track parser, this was actually quite easy to use and figure out.. & Yes, the import from discogs just gave a big single list of tracks.

I have removed the annotation and added as credits, release relationships etc.. I cant located a producer for progrock.com though. Will take a longer look later. Its not a name, I know this as a radio station..

Yeah, building how MB works and the database relationships.. :grinning_face:

I have a few in this format, the next Pendragon - The First 40 Years with 5 CD’s (Earbook - whatever that is) Also not in MB
https://www.discogs.com/release/14036587-Pendragon-The-First-40-Years

Mainly lets people know it is video and not audio. Which stops them merging the track with an audio track.

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Hi Guys,

Hopefully corrected the recording merge. The merging is a little tricky when first come across the process, so hopefully OK. Not sure if you can see the edits to check them?

Thanks again.