How to update musicbrainz with my data.

[rpm4fsu]

I have a CD that was purchased in Saudi Arabia in 1984. It has a TELDEC 8.42203 ID but no barcode. After many hours of searching I found one reference on the web of someone trying to find a copy to buy.

Enough of the history of the CD. I would like to enter this information in MusicBrainz data base.

After much reading of the MusicBrainz documentation I am no closer to figuring out how to do this.

I did read the forum article where Paul gave 3 steps about how to do this but I still do not see it. As on of my old meteorology professor said “It is obvious once you understand it.” It is still not obvious to me. Maybe all those years baking my grey cells in the Saudi sun.

I would like to add this with this album as an exercise but need some help.

I have created my MB account and have created ampliFIND id but not sure how I get the rest of the data into MB.

Anyone have any “how to” document who have done this before.

[paultaylor]

Firstly Jaikoz works of diigitised files (i.e mp3s) not directly from CD’s, so have you already ripped the CD or not, if not you need to do so.

Ensure yo have put your Musicbrainz Username and Password into Prefeences:MusicBrainz:Submissions to Musicbrainz.

Once you have the files loaded into Jaikoz, filter so that only the files from the CD are listed and ensure you have basic information such as release, track titles and trackno entered.

Then just use Action/Remote Correct/Submt New Release will then open the MB Release editor within your favourite Web Browser prepopulated with the info in your files.

[rpm4fsu]

[quote=paultaylor]Firstly Jaikoz works of diigitised files (i.e mp3s) not directly from CD’s, so have you already ripped the CD or not, if not you need to do so.

Ensure yo have put your Musicbrainz Username and Password into Prefeences:MusicBrainz:Submissions to Musicbrainz.

Once you have the files loaded into Jaikoz, filter so that only the files from the CD are listed and ensure you have basic information such as release, track titles and trackno entered.

Then just use Action/Remote Correct/Submt New Release will then open the MB Release editor within your favourite Web Browser prepopulated with the info in your files. [/quote]

Paul,

Thanks for your reply.

I RIP’d the CD but I RIP all my albums as Apple Lossless.

When I try Action/Remote Correct/Submit New Release I get the following from MB “502 Bad Gateway” “nginx/0.7.65”.

My console does not show any errors.

Could trying to upload an apple lossless file be the problem.

Thanks

Robert

[paultaylor]

No I dont think Apple Lossles iss the issue.

Before you get the Internal Error does a page open in your web browser with a submit button on it for a few seconds (Im pretty sure it does) . If so grab that url, and then send me the file that it points to.

[paultaylor]

I received your file and found the issue, my form is not telling Musicbrainz that the data is encoded as UTF-8, because of this it decodes the unmlautted u in Flurst�ck incorrectly. So Add Release will not work correctly if there are any values that cannot be stored in ISO-8859-12 charset. Fixed for the next release in the meantime there are two clumsy workarounds:

1. Edit your data in Jaikoz to temporily remove the non ISO-8859-1 data before submitting, then you’ll have to correct it again within the Musicbrainz Editor.
2. Edit the html file created by Jaikoz and after

id=“form”

add

accept-charset=“UTF-8”

[rpm4fsu]

[quote=paultaylor]I received your file and found the issue, my form is not telling Musicbrainz that the data is encoded as UTF-8, because of this it decodes the unmlautted u in Flurst�ck incorrectly. So Add Release will not work correctly if there are any values that cannot be stored in ISO-8859-12 charset. Fixed for the next release in the meantime there are two clumsy workarounds:

1. Edit your data in Jaikoz to temporily remove the non ISO-8859-1 data before submitting, then you’ll have to correct it again within the Musicbrainz Editor.
2. Edit the html file created by Jaikoz and after

id=“form”

add

accept-charset=“UTF-8”
[/quote]

Humm,

I did not send anything to you, but my data does has umlaut a in the album name.

I am also attaching the URL file you requested. I could only see a flash of something but draging it into a browser I saw the “send” button.

Also when i “vi” the file I could see all the information and the id=“form”.

I will give your suggestion a try and let you know.

Thanks

[paultaylor]

Sorry , someone else reported the same issue about the same time as yourself. But yes I think it is the same issue.

[rpm4fsu]

Paul,

It was the UTF-8 problem.

I made your changes and uploaded my information. I had to do some character correction as some of the character were not recognized. Not sure why.

Anyone,

This is the url to what I entered.
http://musicbrainz.org/release/24cb0d60-c6ce-4418-8891-2384a9001732

What happens next?

When does the songs that I uploaded get assigned a MB Unique ID per song?

Where does all the tag for album artist, composer,… get entered or where is it located. I do not see the connection. Where does Jaokiz get the information?

Where can I enter a picture?

I have been reading the MB doc but still not obvious how this all works.

Thanks for all your help.

Robert

Again thank

[paultaylor]

Your release and the individual songs on the release already have ids

i.e the first song has id : 5be38b58-ba9c-4041-bf71-fb5f04574874

http://musicbrainz.org/recording/5be38b58-ba9c-4041-bf71-fb5f04574874

They are already in the database, so if you use Match to Specified Musiocbrainz Id and enter the release id of 24cb0d60-c6ce-4418-8891-2384a9001732 you can match your songs in Jaikoz to Musicbrainz.

However, Autocorrect wont work immediately because the search indexes don’t instantaneously match the database becaase the search indexes are updated every four hours.

Musicbrainz itself doesn’t store artwork , but if you can link the release to an Amazon Id or a Discogs Release using Advanced Realtionships within Musicbrainz Jaikoz can follow these links and retrieve artwork.

Likewise things things like composers are added as advanced relationships between a release (or recording) and an artist.

The Musicbrainz Wiki contains lots of information about the how data should be entered http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style , and when your release is added it can be seen and moderated/commented on by other users.

[rpm4fsu]

[quote=paultaylor]Your release and the individual songs on the release already have ids

i.e the first song has id : 5be38b58-ba9c-4041-bf71-fb5f04574874

http://musicbrainz.org/recording/5be38b58-ba9c-4041-bf71-fb5f04574874

They are already in the database, so if you use Match to Specified Musiocbrainz Id and enter the release id of 24cb0d60-c6ce-4418-8891-2384a9001732 you can match your songs in Jaikoz to Musicbrainz.

However, Autocorrect wont work immediately because the search indexes don’t instantaneously match the database becaase the search indexes are updated every four hours.

Musicbrainz itself doesn’t store artwork , but if you can link the release to an Amazon Id or a Discogs Release using Advanced Realtionships within Musicbrainz Jaikoz can follow these links and retrieve artwork.

Likewise things things like composers are added as advanced relationships between a release (or recording) and an artist.

The Musicbrainz Wiki contains lots of information about the how data should be entered http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style , and when your release is added it can be seen and moderated/commented on by other users.

[/quote]

Paul,

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. Actually doing it, with your help, I have to say “by gosh I think (s)he’s got it”.

I will look at the wiki as you have provided.

Thanks again.

Robert