The General Chatter/Off Topic Thread

Hello, I’m new here.
Is there a specific section where I can request scans of a specific album? Thanks.

Hi

You can try and post something as a new thread but I wouldn’t expect you’d get much feedback unless you can provide a source for where someone can quickly obtain the scans; to which at that point we’d ask why you are unable to submit those images yourself.

There’s a requests area on the Discord server but that rarely gets any attention as many contributors are going to be working on their own projects/interests.

What’s the release that you’re wanting information added to?

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MetaGer, one of the oldest metasearch engines has lost Yahoo as one of their providers and main source of income. The project’s future is uncertain:
https://suma-ev.de/eine-aera-geht-zu-ende/

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Hello, thanks for responding.

I’m looking for scans of the album Realms by singer Darkher.

Even here on the website there are scans of her other album, The Buried Storm, but unfortunately the Realms album is not complete.

I see some overview photos of CD and vinyl editions, there: Realms | Darkher

Ok but they are not high resolution photos of the entire album.

Thanks!

I’ve been using this for a couple of weeks and I love it! My profile: https://record.club/boysmithers
Has anyone else joined? I have some invitation codes if anyone would like one.

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An interesting incident happened on The Rolling Stones’ album “Aftermath”

It’s about the comma.

“Paint It, Black” or “Paint It Black” ?

Look at the bottom of the page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones

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Why isn’t MusicBrainz here?

'cos Wikipedia lives in their own special world… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Wikidata gives all the links to useful sites, including MusicBrainz

In some random cases it does appear. Depends on the editor I assume.

Go on - I dare you to attempt to add the link. Lets see what happens.

They do make some odd decisions at times… a places that loves rules even when they make no sense.

The other day I saw one of those comedy decisions on Whackipedia in action. I was trying to read the article on the band The The. Someone in the WhackiWikiWorld has decreed that the first “T” in “The The” should be a little “T” when talking about The The in a sentence. So a conversation about The The should say the The. Which now looks plain odd. Trying to read the Wikipedia article on The The now looks unreadably confusing.

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Nicole is more important to them than Mick.

Life :wink:

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Have some random reasons:

Looks like a few MusicBrainz editors attempted to add the links, but then it got killed off by someone. Seems they would rather have links to shops like Discogs than an open data project like MusicBrainz. Told you they were weird over there :rofl:

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It is there:

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But after an additional click. :wink:

In this way, Discogs and AllMusic will always be more famous than MusicBrainz.

Thanks. Never seen that bit before. Is that the link from the Wikidata section?

The content comes from WD indeed, but it’s displayed as the WP bottom-most foldable box, called Authority control databases.

I had spotted the WP bottom when @chaban posted that image. Just it is too well hidden as I have previously gone the long way round to get to MB from Wikipedia. I’d go to Tools, then Wikidata, then scroll, then click on the MB link…

Sometimes modern interfaces hide the good details too well.

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Today I learned a lot about the history of MusicBrainz. :wink:

I recommend it.

https://translations.metabrainz.org/browse/musicbrainz/history/en/?q=

It was many years ago, though. But on the other hand they attempted to delete all MusicBrainz related articles recently (and partly did) :person_shrugging:

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