by Mizery_Made » Sun Mar 08, 2015 3:35 pm
Hey Trix. I got to playing around with this script again earlier, and was reminded that the Discogs implementation is still broken. If you find some time to invest into this script again, there's a few other ideas I had while messing with it earlier. I'm still not a fan of Last.FM since there's a lot of variants in their database due to their information primarily coming from users tags (and people have various tagging tendencies), thus me looking to run a "moderated" source such as Discogs. Pretty sure I've mentioned it at some point over the years, but MusicBrainz is another "open music source" I believe. Might be worth looking into again as a third source of information?
In messing with the Last.FM report (and remembering back to reports I used to get from Discogs), it would have Singles mixed into the report. This could definitely be beneficial for some, but the majority of the time when I ran this report I was looking for Albums/EPs. Is the release type supplied by the sources through their API? If so, how about an option to select the type of releases you want to search for/exclude or grouping them into categories in the report (so you can simply skip over a section when scanning the report)?
In mentioning EPs, it reminds me of another tiny issue I noticed. Since the search is ran against your database information, you can sometimes see results you "shouldn't" based on your own tagging tendencies. For instance, I tag my EPs as "EP Title [EP]" so they are decernable from full albums in the tree and such. Thus, I will see EPs show up in the report even though I have them. Another Bell/Whistle that would be cool would be some sort of "text filter." I could put " [EP]" in and then that part would be removed from my album titles before comparing to the results it gets from the source. Might be a limited use-case though cause something like this caters to people's tagging tendencies and such.
Anyway... wouldn't mind seeing this get an update at some point in the future. I've gotten kind of lazy about keeping up with music, so being able to run a report like this could help me catch up.
Hey Trix. I got to playing around with this script again earlier, and was reminded that the Discogs implementation is still broken. If you find some time to invest into this script again, there's a few other ideas I had while messing with it earlier. I'm still not a fan of Last.FM since there's a lot of variants in their database due to their information primarily coming from users tags (and people have various tagging tendencies), thus me looking to run a "moderated" source such as Discogs. Pretty sure I've mentioned it at some point over the years, but MusicBrainz is another "open music source" I believe. Might be worth looking into again as a third source of information?
In messing with the Last.FM report (and remembering back to reports I used to get from Discogs), it would have Singles mixed into the report. This could definitely be beneficial for some, but the majority of the time when I ran this report I was looking for Albums/EPs. Is the release type supplied by the sources through their API? If so, how about an option to select the type of releases you want to search for/exclude or grouping them into categories in the report (so you can simply skip over a section when scanning the report)?
In mentioning EPs, it reminds me of another tiny issue I noticed. Since the search is ran against your database information, you can sometimes see results you "shouldn't" based on your own tagging tendencies. For instance, I tag my EPs as "EP Title [EP]" so they are decernable from full albums in the tree and such. Thus, I will see EPs show up in the report even though I have them. Another Bell/Whistle that would be cool would be some sort of "text filter." I could put " [EP]" in and then that part would be removed from my album titles before comparing to the results it gets from the source. Might be a limited use-case though cause something like this caters to people's tagging tendencies and such.
Anyway... wouldn't mind seeing this get an update at some point in the future. I've gotten kind of lazy about keeping up with music, so being able to run a report like this could help me catch up.