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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:05 pm 
 

Users can now check their own list of votes.

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:51 am 
 

Should in case of a translation also the typical phrase be placed:

Do not confuse with the band YYY from ###?

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/The ... of_Gravity
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/%D0 ... 3540325726
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 8:07 am 
 

No.

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:32 am 
 

New feature:
*Country "International" is now available.

Enhancements / Improvements:
*If a band has more than twenty entries in their similar votes section, you can choose to view all entries with at least five votes. If you click on the edit button, you can see all entries with at least one vote.
*The date of the accepted review is now fixed. Reviews now have a separate "last updated" date stamp, so that edited reviews won't appear as new reviews.

Feedback needed:
We'll disable line-ups for compilations, allowing only Misc. Staff to be added. We're thinking about doing the same with boxed sets. What do you think?

Coming change:
Slashes to separate instruments will be removed in favor of commas.

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:19 am 
 

I do not like how the line-up, add notes and shit is handled... too much clicking and too intransparent. I will post a suggestion later.
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Lauri
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:47 pm 
 

I'm currently getting this message when I want to update line-ups :/


Notice: Undefined variable: release in /home/metalarc/webapp/controllers/LineupController.php on line 93

Fatal error: Call to a member function getTypeId() on a non-object in /home/metalarc/webapp/controllers/LineupController.php on line 93

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HellBlazer
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:53 pm 
 

Lauri wrote:
I'm currently getting this message when I want to update line-ups :/


Notice: Undefined variable: release in /home/metalarc/webapp/controllers/LineupController.php on line 93

Fatal error: Call to a member function getTypeId() on a non-object in /home/metalarc/webapp/controllers/LineupController.php on line 93


Sorry, that should be fixed now.

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Morrigan
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:12 pm 
 

:oh shit:
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Von Cichlid wrote:
I work with plenty of Oriental and Indian persons and we get along pretty good, and some females as well.

Markeri, in 2013 wrote:
a fairly agreed upon date [of the beginning of metal] is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old

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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 6:33 pm 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
We'll disable line-ups for compilations, allowing only Misc. Staff to be added.

What would be the reasoning behind this? :scratch:
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:43 pm 
 

MalignantThrone wrote:
Evenfiel wrote:
We'll disable line-ups for compilations, allowing only Misc. Staff to be added.

What would be the reasoning behind this? :scratch:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=80968

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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:14 pm 
 

It's probably already a known bug, but:

http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/D ... llo/234628

Apparently not adding the year to the DOB field results in some weird numbers.
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Morrigan
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:44 pm 
 

Did you just add a month without a day OR a year? That's kinda useless... I didn't think it was even allowed though so that might be the actual bug.
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I work with plenty of Oriental and Indian persons and we get along pretty good, and some females as well.

Markeri, in 2013 wrote:
a fairly agreed upon date [of the beginning of metal] is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old

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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:52 pm 
 

Morrigan wrote:
Did you just add a month without a day OR a year? That's kinda useless... I didn't think it was even allowed though so that might be the actual bug.

I didn't add it, another user reported it. I've seen it before and it also has the same effect when one adds a month and a day, but no year.

EDIT: Another bug:

http://www.metal-archives.com/report/vi ... 8/show/all

This report by OneRodeToAsaBay is fucking up the main report screen:
http://www.metal-archives.com/report/list
It has no name, report type, or date... :ugh:
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:33 pm 
 

Fixed.

Enhancements / Improvements:
-New general stats related to labels and artists.
-Our Tops-50 became Tops-100
-New stats for members: Artists added

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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:51 pm 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
-Our Tops-50 became Tops-100

I can feel important now that I'm on a leaderboard! :lol:
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:22 pm 
 

New feature:
-List of bands & albums without line-ups

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Zorg85
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 4:25 am 
 

Would it be possible to create a list with artists whose country is not added on their profiles? From April 9th to April 13 th (approx) many members entered were without country and everyday I find new ones but there are plenty left... it would make the work easier

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:51 am 
 

Yeah, that's already planned for the future.

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HellBlazer
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:08 pm 
 

Enhancement:
You can now specify alternative link text when using the link syntax for bands/artists/labels, similar to how it works on Wikipedia. For example, using the syntax {band 379} creates a link with the text "Manilla Road" leading to that band as usual, but you can now use {band 379|great band} to create a link with the text "great band" instead of the band name (just an example, don't start entering non-neutral notes ;)).

Note: the "insert band link" button now uses the {band ID#} syntax instead of just {ID#} as before, but {ID#} will still work for bands.

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orionmetalhead
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:08 pm 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
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I would love to see to an additional search field in the advanced search under the album tab for state/city/province that way I can search specific areas in otherwise massive countries such as Norway or the USA. I can't search for 2011 albums by bands in NJ or 1992 Black Metal albums by bands from Bergen Norway. It would make advanced searching albums much more worthwhile.

Requested.


Any work on this yet HB? ^_^ I'm sorry I keep pestering you haha.
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Morrigan
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:48 pm 
 

Don't count on that one any time soon, just saying...
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I work with plenty of Oriental and Indian persons and we get along pretty good, and some females as well.

Markeri, in 2013 wrote:
a fairly agreed upon date [of the beginning of metal] is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old

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MMisantropo
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 11:15 am 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
Coming change:
Slashes to separate instruments will be removed in favor of commas.


But why?
Well, I think I can understand the reasoning behind that (widespread misuse), but we'll lose a nice feature in the process: the ability of seeing the instruments timelines in a single sentence.

Here's an example:
John - Vocals / Guitars (1998) / Keyboards, Bass (1999-?)
will become
John - Vocals, Guitars (1998), Keyboards, Bass (1999-?)

Now when did John sing on this band? Was it in 1998? Or is it not known? Same aplies for keyboards.

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 3:39 pm 
 

Err, yeah, you're right. We didn't think of that. :oh shit:

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Morrigan
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:20 pm 
 

Evenfiel - told you :tongue:
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Von Cichlid wrote:
I work with plenty of Oriental and Indian persons and we get along pretty good, and some females as well.

Markeri, in 2013 wrote:
a fairly agreed upon date [of the beginning of metal] is 1969. Metal is almost 25 years old

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 10:42 pm 
 

Morrigan wrote:
Evenfiel - told you :tongue:

Hey hey, that wasn't what I proposed in the first place!

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legacy4
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:14 am 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
Feedback needed:
We'll disable line-ups for compilations, allowing only Misc. Staff to be added. We're thinking about doing the same with boxed sets. What do you think?
This is not very good, because there exists some compilations, that are re-recorded stuff or unreleased material, such as:
Helloween - Unarmed - totally re-recorded stuff with new Line-Up, but NOT a Full-Length album.
Virgin Steele - The Book of Burning - partially re-recorded stuff with many never released before tracks with new Line-Up - but NOT a Full-Length album.
Running Wild - The First Years of Piracy - totally re-recorded stuff with new Line-Up, but NOT a Full-Length album.

For such compilations / albums we just must enter Line-Up, but for simple "Best of" stuff, like this & this this is don't needed.

Boxed Sets - there must be no line-ups.

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Zaveugan
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 2:37 am 
 

legacy4, я полностью согласен. I completely agree.
"Compilation" includes not only "best of" some band taken from its other releases.
It can contain a variety of types of tracks, such as unreleased, rarities, remixes, acoustic, instrumental version, game/movie soundtracks, cover version, some new (promo) songs, etc. Such tracks might be recorded by current line-up of that moment. Either such tracks might be present in these compilations only. For example:
Helloween - Metal Jukebox
This is a collection of cover versions, and these tracks are not presented in other releases of the band.

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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:21 am 
 

legacy4 wrote:
Evenfiel wrote:
Feedback needed:
We'll disable line-ups for compilations, allowing only Misc. Staff to be added. We're thinking about doing the same with boxed sets. What do you think?
This is not very good, because there exists some compilations, that are re-recorded stuff or unreleased material, such as:
Helloween - Unarmed - totally re-recorded stuff with new Line-Up, but NOT a Full-Length album.
Virgin Steele - The Book of Burning - partially re-recorded stuff with many never released before tracks with new Line-Up - but NOT a Full-Length album.
Running Wild - The First Years of Piracy - totally re-recorded stuff with new Line-Up, but NOT a Full-Length album.

For such compilations / albums we just must enter Line-Up, but for simple "Best of" stuff, like this & this this is don't needed.

Boxed Sets - there must be no line-ups.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=80968&p=1873100#p1873100

Evenfiel wrote:
MMisantropo wrote:
What about compilations of previously unreleased songs? Would it still be a workable solution even if it's the band's only release?

There could be a checkbox for veterans to enable line-ups for compilations.
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legacy4
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 3:39 am 
 

MalignantThrone wrote:
Evenfiel wrote:
There could be a checkbox for veterans to enable line-ups for compilations.
But currently such option not available. I Hope it will be in the future. Also just one of variants to resolve a question: a new Release Type for compilations of re-recordings, unreleased tracks, re-mixes, etc: special compilation, and for simple "Best of" compilations - "best of" or just as now - "compilation".

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:58 am 
 

what about links to Wikipedia entries for artists?
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Dexter
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 5:09 pm 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
Err, yeah, you're right. We didn't think of that. :oh shit:

I think that the behavior should be like this:
1) Slashes separate instruments that were played during different time periods (or during unknown periods)
2) Commas if the guy sung and played the guitar from 2000 till 2005, for example
3) Instruments should be entered separately and the preceding behavior should be somehow automatically mapped

For example:
John Doe played bass (2000-2005) and then gutiars and vocals (2005-2011)

So the users enters
JOHN DOE
- BASS 2000-2005
- GUITARS 2005-2011
- VOCALS 2005-2011

and the system magically transforms that to
John Doe ------ Bass (2000-2005) / Guitars, Vocals (2005-2011)

Anyone likey?

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MMisantropo
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 6:49 pm 
 

legacy4 wrote:
This is not very good, because there exists some compilations, that are re-recorded stuff or unreleased material, such as:
Helloween - Unarmed - totally re-recorded stuff with new Line-Up, but NOT a Full-Length album.
Virgin Steele - The Book of Burning - partially re-recorded stuff with many never released before tracks with new Line-Up - but NOT a Full-Length album.
Running Wild - The First Years of Piracy - totally re-recorded stuff with new Line-Up, but NOT a Full-Length album.

For such compilations / albums we just must enter Line-Up, but for simple "Best of" stuff, like this & this this is don't needed.

Boxed Sets - there must be no line-ups.


Your point is valid, but those examples you gave should be considered regular full-lengths. A new recording is a new release. Most bands re-record their demo songs for the debut, yet that fact doesn't turn the album into a compilation.

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:09 pm 
 

Exactly. I've changed them to full-lengths.

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:43 pm 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Althema/112798

Past members
Quote:
T・Y - vocals
真澄 - guitars
和彦 - guitars
T・E - guitars
池川 - guitars

Are we supposed to add T・E and & T・Y in this way of spelling or as T. E. and T. Y. respectively?
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 11:40 pm 
 

Add them as they're known in China.

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Zorg85
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:50 am 
 

It's also hard with japanese signs

I remember seeing a member name with symbols like ~ ~ * .... :???:

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:01 am 
 

Pre-selected number of results in all lists changed. Here are the old and new values:
my bands 30 100
my collection 100 200
my reviews 30 200
my reports 50 100
my votes 100 200
band queue 30 100
review queue 30 200
blacklist 100 200
reports queue 50 100
todo/no label 100 200
todo/no disco 100 200
todo/no covers 100 200
todo/alt spell 100 200
reports history 50 100
reviews/date 30 200
reviews/rating 30 200
reviews/alpha 30 200
labels 50 200
bands letter 100 500
bands country 100 500
bands genre 100 500
user rankings 100 500
user bands 30 100
user reviews 30 200
user collection 100 200
user modifs 100 500
user votes 100 200
history 100 500
band archives 100 200
label archives 100 200
artist archives 100 200
label band tab 50 100
label album tab 50 200
band review tab 30 200
col owner list 100 200
upcoming albums 20 100
search 100 200
adv search 100 200
band search pop 10 20
artist srch pop 10 20

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:57 am 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
Add them as they're known in China.


this way then:
Quote:
T・Y - vocals
T・E - guitars

The band has no link of any sort to search for additional information ... :/
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MalignantThrone
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:12 pm 
 

Will there be an ability to search for lengths of songs when using the Advanced Search feature? I'd be really excited to see something like that. :D
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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:13 am 
 

When merging duplicate artists, why is it that the artist with the higher (newer) ID survives the merge while the older one gets nuked? <_< Is this a conscious decision by the admins as to which one to kill off, or does the site's code automatically use the newer entry?

Because logically, the entry with the lower/older ID should be the one surviving the merge... otherwise, there's greater risk of breaking artist links (in additional notes and biographies elsewhere).

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