Flag functionality for Merge/Split gone?
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Hi.
In the popdown "flag" menu there are just two empty html-list-items where once the merge and split function used to be.
Is this a bug or (the end of a) feature?
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What topic were you trying to flag?
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Both of them for merge:
http://www.freebase.com/search?limit=30&start=0&query=Khomaniac
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I'll bet this is because Musical Tracks are not full-fledged topics in Freebase.
That said -- these are two different tracks. The track on "Deadly Relics" is not the same as the track on "By Inheritance" even though they have the same name.
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Ok. I already understood that a Track is a recorded "instance" of a song.
I thought that in this particular case the recordings are the same. That would comply with the statement of the Track type schema "A track should be a unique recording, but may appear on multiple albums or releases."
But now I see that according to Wikipedia one track is 06:42 and the other one 06:43 - So it may really be distinct recordings instead of a re-release of the same one. By the way: The freebase entries seem a bit odd to me: "Length (seconds): 401.906 s" - where do the milliseconds come from? any technical CD-timestamp-tick thingy or a rounding error (intel processor's floating point error :D )?
Anyway, the two non-functional
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And just for my understanding: A composition is linked to a recording by a "Performed song" for "livemusic" - but what's with never-played-live songs? Or ar they livemusic the moment they are recorded?
Well. Thanks for your quick reply.
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Whoops. It should read " non-functional s in the UI"
Strange html tag filtering going on here... :D
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Strange it filters out html entities but allows me to insert unordered list as html.
All I meant is the html tag for "list item".
and now I'm stopping the spam. (btw. an edit- or remove-function for posts would be nice)
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The track data in Freebase largely comes from MusicBrainz, including the track lengths; I don't know how they calculate it, though. (Interestingly, although they apparently store the data in milliseconds, they round it up for display on their site.)
Tracks are linked to Compositions via the "Recording of Composition" property. Users are free (and encouraged) to create additional types and properties, which is where the livemusic base comes in.
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