[mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Chad Wilson
BrianG has voted down an edit to remove a homeburnt disc ID at http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8668756 Since when has this practice changed, and is BrianG's position that the practice should change technically defensible? (of course AutoEditors voting against style guidelines isn't,

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Per Øyvind Øygard
On Fri, 09 May 2008 15:07:48 +0200, Chad Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BrianG has voted down an edit to remove a homeburnt disc ID at http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8668756 The problem I have with this is that the concept of burning downloaded music is in itself old fashioned,

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Dňa Pi, 2008-05-09 o 21:07 +0800, Chad Wilson napísal: BrianG has voted down an edit to remove a homeburnt disc ID at http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8668756 Since when has this practice changed, and is BrianG's position that the practice should change technically defensible? (of

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Bram van Dijk
This one: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/HowToAddDiscIDs (though you might say it is not a guideline) If I am not mistaken, burning the exact same mp3 or whatever will result in different discIDs dependent on the which burner one uses. Maybe even with which program? Thus, if we allow this, we

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Dňa Pi, 2008-05-09 o 15:42 +0200, Bram van Dijk napísal: This one: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/HowToAddDiscIDs (though you might say it is not a guideline) Yes, this is very far from a style guideline. If I am not mistaken, burning the exact same mp3 or whatever will result in different

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
I agree that discids which are known to be or very likely to be from homeburned discs should be removed. Philip On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/HowToAddDiscIDs (though you might say it is not a guideline) If I am

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Bram van Dijk
1. Well, let's make it a guideline! 2. Could you explain why it technically doesn't remove the discid? 3. I agree that layout is not the best of reasons, but the main point is that they are a nuisance, and don't really help. 4. You said yourself that you are not willing to explicitly allow them,

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Chris B
2008/5/9 Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If they were hidden, it would be ok to keep them? I think we all know that the MB website is far from ideal, but we should change the graphic layout to fit the data, not the data to fit the layout. one idea might be to (at some point down the line)

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Bram van Dijk
I like this idea! Chris B schreef: 2008/5/9 Lukáš Lalinský [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If they were hidden, it would be ok to keep them? I think we all know that the MB website is far from ideal, but we should change the graphic layout to fit the data, not the data to fit the layout. one

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Brian Schweitzer
I don't - we'll end up then having to allow the same discID several times on the same release as well. It's quite possible and far from rare for the same CD master, generating the same toc, to be reused in different countries, for rereleases, etc. Brian On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Bram van

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
How about redoing the edit now that the wrath of the mighty style list has been woken? Philip On 5/9/08, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't - we'll end up then having to allow the same discID several times on the same release as well. It's quite possible and far from rare for

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

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Disk space is a non-issue. Gracenote hardly has all possible homeburned discids either, do they though? I don't expect that we will agree on this issue, so why not just settle it by voting... Philip On 5/9/08, Brian Gurtler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a little out of the loop.. is MB hurting

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Paul C. Bryan
Unless there was a serious risk of DiscID collisions, I'd tend to tolerate so-called homeburnt CDs. What would be irritating (but probably still tolerable) would be if multiple burner applications and/or combinations of albums resulted in the proliferation of DiscIDs. So far, I'm not seeing this

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
I don't agree. If I see two discids I'll think that there are (at least) two pressings of the CD, not that someone ripped a CDR (from a friend or whatever) and used MusicBrainz to tag it. Peoples homemade discids are cruft and I applaud anyone who takes the time to clean up cruft even when the

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Morrison
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Philip J?genstedt wrote: I don't agree. If I see two discids I'll think that there are (at least) two pressings of the CD, not that someone ripped a CDR (from a friend or whatever) and used MusicBrainz to tag it. Peoples homemade discids are cruft and I applaud anyone who

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Paul C. Bryan
Maybe it's not reasonable to associate DiscIDs with pressings. Given the fact that's it's practically impossible for us to prove or disprove DiscID adds (hence why it's an AutoEdit) trying to fight this seems like a waste of energy to me. On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:44 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Paul C. Bryan
At the risk of sounding a bit radical, I think I'll try to make an even stronger assertion: I don't think MusicBrainz should be an encyclopedia of DiscIDs. I think DiscIDs should be means of identifying a release in MusicBrainz that correlates with the disc I have in hand. It's a means of indexing

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
Is that to say you want to explicitly allow homebrew discids? Philip On 5/9/08, Paul C. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of sounding a bit radical, I think I'll try to make an even stronger assertion: I don't think MusicBrainz should be an encyclopedia of DiscIDs. I think DiscIDs

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:58 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: Is that to say you want to explicitly allow homebrew discids? I don't think I'm yet prepared to endorse the addition of homebrew DiscIDs until I can be fully clear on the consequences of doing so. I am so far prepared to tolerate the

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Lukáš Lalinský
Dňa Pi, 2008-05-09 o 21:44 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt napísal: I don't agree. If I see two discids I'll think that there are (at least) two pressings of the CD, not that someone ripped a CDR (from a friend or whatever) and used MusicBrainz to tag it. There is an important point here: people

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Philip Jägenstedt
I agree that given a bunch of discids without any context there's no method to find homebrew releases with 100% certainty and no false positives. However, in this case the release has never been put out on CD. It's nice that people want to contribute, but I think fake discid's are just about as

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 MB

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Age Bosma
Luká? Lalinský wrote: Peoples homemade discids are cruft and I applaud anyone who takes the time to clean up cruft even when the cruft is not causing much damage. Some more practically inclined will think that it's a waste of time, but why vote no? Because it's reducing the usefulness of

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Age Bosma
Age Bosma wrote: Luká? Lalinský wrote: Peoples homemade discids are cruft and I applaud anyone who takes the time to clean up cruft even when the cruft is not causing much damage. Some more practically inclined will think that it's a waste of time, but why vote no? Because it's reducing

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 00:56 +0200, Age Bosma wrote: Since MB is all about factual information, with the exception of tags, homebrew disc id's do not belong in the database imho. They are not a representation of the facts. It would be just like allowing people to add all their personal

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Morrison
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Paul C. Bryan wrote: In many areas of MB, we try to strike a balance between structural/factual strictness and utility. If someone burns an album downloaded from iTunes, Amazon, eMusic et al, shouldn't they be entitled to index those against releases indexed in MB? The

Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

2008-05-09 Thread Paul C. Bryan
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 19:39 -0400, Mike Morrison wrote: Can they use PUIDs and clustering to tag their downloaded-and-burnt album, instead of a DiscID? I suppose, if they're using Picard, and already have the tracks extracted. It won't work in any media players on an inserted disc that I'm