Musical Album

New Album (Program B): Wanderlust

2008-09-02T05:58:28.0015Z

Wanderlust is Craig's 5th album and features 12 new original guitar instrumentals. The title track was written by Sir Paul McCartney and featured on the "Tug Of War" album in 1982.

Samples available on Myspace and at www.craigpaynemusic.com

Darkhorse: [silence] tracks?

2008-09-01T20:31:04.0012Z

See the blurb for the clue: "(Tracks 12 to 22 and 24 to 31 are blank)"

A practice by some musicians to 'hide' unlisted songs at the end of the CD play, particularly annoying when user only has an advance forwards/backwards buttons on the cd-player and there are dozens of silent tracks between the next to last and the "hidden" track.

Darkhorse: [silence] tracks?

2008-08-30T18:29:44.0005Z

How come there are multiple tracks named [silence]?

Musical Album: Catalog Numbers

2008-08-22T14:24:18.0012Z

The Release Event is a compound value type; the label and catalog number show up as apparent properties of Musical Release. The exact structure is only an issue if using the API.

The artist can change on reissues. For example, there is a single Billy Joel-branded release of what is actually two albums by two bands that he was in before he started his solo career. Same exact recordings, but different packaging and crediting. You are right that a re-recording is a new album.

Musical Album: Catalog Numbers

2008-08-22T13:58:26.0012Z

Hi crism...

Oh my. I'd found Musical Release but didn't go that far into "Release Event"...that's definitely pretty deep to have to go to put the catalog #. :)

Part of the goal is to let obsessive fans get in there and do the work of completing the catalog. But I'll have to get creative with the queries if it's this far away from "album"...

So if I'm going to be doing that: why is Artist on both Musical Album and Musical Release? Should it be allowed to change? If the artist is not the same, then wouldn't it have to be considered a new album? (If I re-recorded Sgt. Peppers, it shouldn't be considered a release of that album, should it?)

Musical Album: Catalog Numbers

2008-08-22T12:55:51.0005Z

An album can have multiple mixes which can be released multiple times in multiple countries. If your friend is this obsessive (-: s/he needs to go all the way down to the Release Event type, which is a particular release by a manufacturer in a region of a Musical Release of a Musical Album.

Musical Album: Catalog Numbers

2008-08-21T23:59:39.0018Z

Hi there, I'm working with someone who is trying to use Freebase as a semi-official database of their catalog. But one thing that seems to be missing is a place to put an album's catalog ID from the publisher (Kind of how books have "Book Edition"... with ISBN#s)

http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000058694f9?domain=/book

Is there any place to put this information on an album?

Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves: Why I flagged the article for deletion

2008-08-17T19:00:13.0012Z

Good suggestion. Thank you!

Atomic Roses: Why I flagged this article for deletion

2008-08-17T18:54:56.0012Z

Good suggestion. Thank you.

All the King's Men: Why I flagged this article for deletion

2008-08-17T18:52:39.0012Z

Ah... that makes sense. Thanks for the advice!

Atomic Roses: Why I flagged this article for deletion

2008-08-17T03:36:59.0005Z

Thanks for noticing the duplicate topics! In this case, a merge is warranted because both topics contain keys that we want to keep. Actually, in most cases, a merge is usually a better choice.

All the King's Men: Why I flagged this article for deletion

2008-08-17T03:36:01.0005Z

Thanks for noticing the duplicate topics! In this case, a merge is warranted because both topics contain keys that we want to keep. Actually, in most cases, a merge is usually a better choice.

Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves: Why I flagged the article for deletion

2008-08-17T03:35:50.0000Z

Thanks for noticing the duplicate topics! In this case, a merge is warranted because both topics contain keys that we want to keep. Actually, in most cases, a merge is usually a better choice.

All the King's Men: Why I flagged this article for deletion

2008-08-16T23:45:35.0017Z

There is an existing duplicate article here: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000330e9bd

Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves: Why I flagged the article for deletion

2008-08-16T22:07:18.0017Z

I flagged this article for deletion because one already exists: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000330ef59

Atomic Roses: Why I flagged this article for deletion

2008-08-16T21:55:40.0005Z

I flagged this article for deletion because one already exists: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000007ce0d1b

Oil on Canvas: This is not an Art Medium

2008-08-06T19:24:26.0017Z

This topic is a music album, not an art medium, which has been repeatedly mis-applied to this topic. For the equivalient art media, use 1) oil paint, and 2) canvas.

Acceptance: Brian Fife and Band

2008-07-26T04:02:26.0017Z

Have you heard the new record from Brian Fife and Band? You can check out samples at www.brianfife.com. Add a comment here and tell us what you think!

I'm Not Scared: Album has nothing to do with the novel

2008-07-12T00:00:56.0005Z

The album by Eighth Wonder should not be here; it is not even the soundtrack to the movie based on this novel.

Sing Praises to Jehovah: Name

2008-07-03T12:26:31.0005Z

'kingdom songs' is not an official name of, well, anything. The album is "Sing Praises to Jehovah" which is an 8 disc album of 225 tracks.

Anthology: Merge please - two topics, same anthology album

2008-06-23T22:44:10.0012Z

Both musical album instances are from the same artist with the same release date. I assert they're dups of each other. Merge please.

Musical Album: Review Fields for albums

2007-05-04T23:53:30.0006Z

Yep - they sure will. What you can do is create a music review type in your private domain to experiment with this. You can create a private type by going to the "My profile" page and adding the new type to the "types created" list. After adding a new type, click on it to edit its schema. The schema editor is fairly complex, but since this type is private, you can experiment without breaking anything.

Here's one possible schema for the type Music Review:

- reviewer [type: Music Reviewer]
- review blurb [type: text]
- rating (1 = worst, 5=best) [type:integer, or type:float if you want to allow 2.5, 3.5, etc)
- reviewed album [type: Musical Album]

Note that you don't need to add a title field for your review because the display name property is already there on the type you created.

Once you've created this type, you can create a new instance of it - a review. Give the review a name, fill in the fields, and you're done.

I've glossed over how to create the type "Music Reviewer," but I hope this gives you enough ideas to start experimenting. Also, look at how other types are structured by editing them. Don't worry about breaking any public schema - since you don't own them, your changes won't be saved in edit mode.

Musical Album: Review Fields for albums

2007-05-04T15:09:56.0012Z

Being new to Freebase, I'm not sure how to do this myself (I doubt I can without Admin access), the the Musical Album/Release/Track types should have fields for Reviews... I'm quite sure people will want to read critical praise/flames about albums they are perusing.

Musical Album: I've added a link back to Musical Release

2007-03-02T23:19:21.0012Z

Musical releases are like versions of an album, it will be useful for someone to be able to view a release list for a particular album.

Musical Album: Previous Release?

2007-02-08T01:05:02.0006Z

I agree. I've hidden these properties for now. We can bring them back if they become useful, or garden them out if they don't.

Musical Album: Previous Release?

2007-02-08T00:20:03.0011Z

The "previous release" and "next release" properties don't make sense to me. First, they encode ordering redundantly -- one can generate a time-ordered list of releases. Second, they are very unlikely to be filled in (because of the first issue), so they will never be queryable in any meaningful way.

I recommend hiding them as they only clutter the display and will probably not be useful to API users because of data sparseness.