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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:36 am 
 

ralfman wrote:
Wanted to add this label , Real Gana Records ( http://www.realgana.com/ ), but i cant ... (on the recently added band , Cast A Fire)

I've added it without a problem.

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Everytime I click the link to the new iron savior review it sends me to a review for Artch that was written back in may. Clicking the band link next too the review name works correctly. I am on my android cellphone right now and I did not notice this with other reviews.

Reported.

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ralfman
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:13 pm 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
ralfman wrote:
Wanted to add this label , Real Gana Records ( http://www.realgana.com/ ), but i cant ... (on the recently added band , Cast A Fire)

I've added it without a problem.


Ah yes... the wonders of Internet Explorer... :ugh: sorry
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Apophis2036
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:53 am 
 

Wanted to change the name of this label (Haint 002) to Haintic, but I cannot (due to my weak position)
http://www.metal-archives.com/labels/Haint_002/14464
Can somebody change it ? Thanks in advance ;)

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:37 pm 
 

Next time just send a report.

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Hellebarn
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 5:18 pm 
 

Kinda unimportant, but I think the upcoming albums thing on the main page should also show the albums coming out on the current date. For example, on the 21st it should show albums from the 21st onwards not from the 22nd onwards.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:20 am 
 

Any plans on making a mobile version of the forum? Making it work with Forum Runner on the iPhone seems easy enough (supposedly it only takes 5 minutes to install some plugin). Not sure if the forum is compatible though.

More info: http://www.forumrunner.net/?p=register
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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:07 am 
 

I'm pretty confident the right CSS would be enough to turn the forum into something fit for a mobile device. :)

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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:04 am 
 

Nowhere else to put this, so I might as well mention a tip here for any users interested:

I just added this image as the cover art of an album.

Now, the image was 89.7 KB until I stripped the metadata from it, after which it shrank to 48.71 KB instead. :| That's right, 41 KBs of the image's data was taken up by pointless crap that would've otherwise forced us to resave the JPEG in Photoshop (which degrades quality).

I used this handy tool:
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30

Basic and easy to use. Should also mention that every time you export an image from Photoshop, 19 bytes are taken up by a stamp the program adds to mark it as a Photoshop-generated document. So, if you really want to be meticulous about optimising an image's filesize, keep this tool handy. ;)

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 4:09 am 
 

Alhadis wrote:
Nowhere else to put this, so I might as well mention a tip here for any users interested:

I just added this image as the cover art of an album.

Now, the image was 89.7 KB until I stripped the metadata from it, after which it shrank to 48.71 KB instead. :| That's right, 41 KBs of the image's data was taken up by pointless crap that would've otherwise forced us to resave the JPEG in Photoshop (which degrades quality).

I used this handy tool:
http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30

Basic and easy to use. Should also mention that every time you export an image from Photoshop, 19 bytes are taken up by a stamp the program adds to mark it as a Photoshop-generated document. So, if you really want to be meticulous about optimising an image's filesize, keep this tool handy. ;)

I use IrfanView for resizing and format changes. I don't know if it can deal with metadata as well, though. I'll download that dirty little stripper, thanks.
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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:04 am 
 

Azmodes wrote:
I use IrfanView for resizing and format changes. I don't know if it can deal with metadata as well, though. I'll download that dirty little stripper, thanks.

By memory, IrfanView leaves the metadata untouched between changes... although it might have a plugin buried in there somewhere to deal with metadata. Don't think I've come across it yet though. :)

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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:16 am 
 

Thanks! That'll be helpful.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 4:23 am 
 

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Da ... ive/278763
What's with this? No tracklist and impossible to add one. It's also impossible to edit the album at all (apart from the lineup), because it keeps flashing that error message about no tracks having been entered.
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:58 am 
 

That's a v1 bug.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:03 am 
 

Well, I can add a new entry and delete the buggy one. Only this review will have to be moved first.
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Porman
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:46 pm 
 

I haven't skimmed through this thread for mentioned bugs, but there's one I have noticed. If you don't fill in a member on the past tab (let's say the info is wrong, or the member is back in the band), then you can't delete the legacy file.

I've had to move members to the past tab, save, delete the legacy info, then move them back to the current tab.

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Azmodes
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 2:54 pm 
 

Porman wrote:
I haven't skimmed through this thread for mentioned bugs, but there's one I have noticed. If you don't fill in a member on the past tab (let's say the info is wrong, or the member is back in the band), then you can't delete the legacy file.

I've had to move members to the past tab, save, delete the legacy info, then move them back to the current tab.

I did actually bring that up, though I don't know if it was in this thread. The admins are aware of that bug, the way you mentioned is the only way to deal with this right now.
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:05 pm 
 

Azmodes wrote:
Well, I can add a new entry and delete the buggy one. Only this review will have to be moved first.

You can simply Reject the review and tell the user to resubmit it to the new entry.

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yentass
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:04 pm 
 

Browsing the "point-whores" thread and seen the intractable issue with using commas for separate instruments instead of separate fields, here's something I'd want to point out:

Albums also have the option of separating fields - you can see it here for example, "edit" the release to see it clearer - so you might want to suspend that option, since albums don't have year ranges (duh...).
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:25 am 
 

yentass wrote:
Albums also have the option of separating fields - you can see it here for example, "edit" the release to see it clearer - so you might want to suspend that option, since albums don't have year ranges (duh...).

Requested.

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BrokenDesign
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:25 pm 
 

Every time that I try to add a release to a band's page, I get stuck on the label search feature. I was wondering if someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong. I am running Internet Explorer. When I search the label, I enter the name in the box that pops up, and it says "There really exists a label with this name." When I click the button that says "Apply this label," nothing happens.

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zervyx
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:20 am 
 

We are having a problem with artists that participated as "Live members" at some point, and became official members of the band. Users tend to add them in both lists ("Live musicians" and "Current Lineup") The problem is noticed in the other bands of the artist, where the artist (somehow) will appear as live musician of this particular band while being in the current lineup.

I reported it at Cradle's of Filth archive, cause James McIlroy is a good case of this, he was at one time live member of Cradle but is now an official member; if you go to his other bands you'll notice that he appears as a live musician of cradle of filth instead of current member, see Chaosanct. I discovered that it can be fixed by just adding a "(Live)" tag in the "Current Lineup" information, that's the case of Caroline Campbell. However, I feel that fixing this would be useless, cause somebody would eventually come and add these artists to the "Live Musicians" list again.

I'm bringing this up, cause I have found another band with the same case: Sturmkaiser, artist Triumphator is in both lists and will appear as a live member of Sturmkaiser in his other band's files.

My question is: Is there a way to add a warning in the "Edit Band Members" section? Something saying that an official artist cannot be added to the Live Musician list. Cause people will continue adding artists in both lists.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:31 am 
 

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.
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:30 am 
 

zervyx wrote:
My question is: Is there a way to add a warning in the "Edit Band Members" section? Something saying that an official artist cannot be added to the Live Musician list. Cause people will continue adding artists in both lists.

The bug was already reported, so all we can do is to wait until it's fixed. Anyway, that's not such a huge problem, since only a few artists are affected by it.

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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.

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:22 am 
 

band member
active 1820-1825 on guitar
rejoins the band in 1965 on nose-hair until now
how do I add this?
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Alhadis
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:38 am 
 

oneyoudontknow wrote:
band member
active 1820-1825 on guitar
rejoins the band in 1965 on nose-hair until now
how do I add this?

... who the hell...

Uhm... question: WHAT BAND COULD THAT BE? Image

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:05 am 
 

Professor John Oldman.

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Porman
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:31 pm 
 

I have seen evidence that Papa Emeritus and Mary Goore (Tobias Forge) are indeed the same person. This can be seen at www.stim.se for those who can read Swedish. A Ghoul Writer is a pseudonym credited for every Ghost song.

Here's a screen cap.
http://oi56.tinypic.com/ae2v6x.jpg

The question is, should these two artists be merged or should they remain separate, but mentioned of each other in the bio field as it is now?

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:25 pm 
 

Alhadis wrote:
oneyoudontknow wrote:
band member
active 1820-1825 on guitar
rejoins the band in 1965 on nose-hair until now
how do I add this?

... who the hell...

Uhm... question: WHAT BAND COULD THAT BE? Image

White Sabbath ... Jesus' band, did you not know this?

A bit more serious. I got a(nother) mail from Generichrist and a change in the line-up was requested. When I did the update I came to realize that some band members had been active before, but seemed to have parted with the band at some point. I re-activated them, but the issue with the dates left me a bit uncomfortable. Therefore, I have contacted the Generichrist and requested some information on the dates in which the members had been active.

The issue remains though. How do I add this?
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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:17 pm 
 

ah ... it merges them. looks nice.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:47 pm 
 

Porman wrote:
The question is, should these two artists be merged or should they remain separate, but mentioned of each other in the bio field as it is now?

Would you say without a shadow of doubt that they are the same person?

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The issue remains though. How do I add this?

Add what?

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:26 am 
 

look at the line-up:
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Gen ... ab_members
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Evenfiel
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:18 am 
 

oneyoudontknow wrote:

If you don't know the years, then you can't add it. If you want, you can add something about it in the additional notes.

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Porman
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:51 am 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
Porman wrote:
The question is, should these two artists be merged or should they remain separate, but mentioned of each other in the bio field as it is now?

Would you say without a shadow of doubt that they are the same person?


I can say that it's the same person responsible for writing their songs and lyrics.
Meaning, A Ghoul Writer and Tobias Forge are the same. Now, how big are the odds that a band like Ghost uses an external songwriter? I mean, it's not mass produced pop shit.

Also, if you listen Tobias Forges band Subdivision, you can clearly hear that it is the same vocal style and voice as in Ghost.

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:25 am 
 

Evenfiel wrote:
oneyoudontknow wrote:

If you don't know the years, then you can't add it. If you want, you can add something about it in the additional notes.

The problem was not the lack of knowledge, but the different time frames, but I was able to add it. Just look at how I editted the page.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:36 pm 
 

oneyoudontknow wrote:
The problem was not the lack of knowledge, but the different time frames, but I was able to add it. Just look at how I editted the page.

Oh, I didn't understand what exactly you wanted to do. Sometimes you're a bit too cryptic. :p

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I can say that it's the same person responsible for writing their songs and lyrics.
Meaning, A Ghoul Writer and Tobias Forge are the same. Now, how big are the odds that a band like Ghost uses an external songwriter? I mean, it's not mass produced pop shit.

In that case, I guess that should be fine.

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Porman
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:48 pm 
 

So, the question is, should Mary Goore and Papa Emeritus I be merged or should they just be mentioned in each others trivia/biography fields since Papa Emeritus I is a character of his own?

I think it's cooler that way.

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Chaosmonger
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:02 am 
 

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but when you're reading a review on, say, page 10 of someone's reviews and click "back," it sends you back to page one of their reviews.

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 12:36 pm 
 

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This band is currently in your drafts. Since the queue is currently full, please wait until the queue gets below 300 bands before submitting this one.

:grumble:
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:49 am 
 

oneyoudontknow wrote:
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This band is currently in your drafts. Since the queue is currently full, please wait until the queue gets below 300 bands before submitting this one.

:grumble:

That kind of sucks, it can lead to people submitting the same band :/

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oneyoudontknow
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:17 pm 
 

I am surprised to see that an edit of a review leads to it appearing on the front page. Sorry for the flodding.
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