Is there a way to search for recordings added to an artist?
Context: I have finished cleaning up the recordings for Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and Busoni. I would like to keep up with the new recordings added to them.
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I can’t think of a way to do that via Edit Search, but you can probably do it through Advanced Search, using Advanced Query Syntax.
Ugh. All links to the documentation pages are failing at the moment, or I’d try it.
I’ve been doing some of the same kinds of edits. I’ve just been going to the composer’s page and clicking on the Recordings tab.
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Ah, the docs are working again.
Take a look at this. I think you’d have to use the composer’s MBID, as I have. Otherwise, there’s too much noise. Is this what you’re looking for?
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That’s what I typically do too, but Rachmaninov and Busoni do have a bunch of real recordings. It takes a while to sort through those to find any newly added incorrect recordings.
Not quite. Search error - MusicBrainz is almost entirely recordings I have already reviewed. Sorting those results by age or creation date would probably suffice.
Yeah, I ran into that with Christopher Ball and Edvard Grieg (I had no idea he had been recorded as a pianist). Don’t even want to look at John Williams.
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I guess what’s needed is a way to find recordings where:
- RA = Composer AND
- Composer IS NOT [any of various performer roles (instrument, vocals, etc.)]
I don’t see a way to do that through the search engines. Maybe via API, but that’s outside my skill set.
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You have reminded me that Reports - MusicBrainz exists. I think your idea would work in that context.
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Please let me know if it does. I’ve never looked at that area.
This is part of why I added the option to hide recordings linked to works. My hope was that by hiding those, it would leave the stuff that still needs fixing / has been added recently.
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That helps, but it isn’t uncommon to find a release that has works linked but not performers.
Yeah - what I generally do when I try to keep some artist cleaned up is to just follow the edits, and check the new releases added, since in my experience most of them probably need some fixing anyway. But that’s not fantastic either.
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