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23 minutes ago, Holko said:
Do we even know if the digital is coming he same day?
According to https://5catstudios.com/listen the digital album is scheduled for April, 26th.
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I don't know if it is any indication that there is an expanded version is coming but the ISRC codes for this album have a gap at the end - about 7 cues. USNLR2400092 until USNLR2400098 are not on the album. "Lisan al Gaib" is USNLR2400099. 🤷🏻♂️
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HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY it is - will be released also digitally tomorrow:
39 Tracks / ~82 minutes
https://www.fmdb.net/releases/36cad9b8-ffb2-4571-9a8b-d7e305e97953
On 06/10/2022 at 5:16 PM, Jay said:Death Becomes Her could be coming to digital on Black Friday when the vinyl edition drops.
Took only a couple of months but the digital comes friday courtesy of Back Lot Music in 24 Bit / 96kHz: https://www.fmdb.net/releases/01218f1b-2b50-46a1-b89c-58da29bebb10
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32 minutes ago, Bespin said:
We need that for all kind of researches.
The various sortings will be rolled out to artists, productions and search results.
32 minutes ago, Bespin said:And the date have to be added on the left bar too
This is already on my list. Something like Discogs is doing grouped by year. I'm also open for suggestions to make it really useful.
17 minutes ago, Richard Penna said:Not that there's anything specifically wrong with this one but it's not completely clear to me what new information there is to present.
To which movie/television series/videogame does a release belong to?
Who worked on a release?
To which movie/television series/videogame does a track belong?
Is a track a variant, e.g. Alternate?
1 minute ago, Thor said:That seems like a tall order, anyway, and probably won't be achieved for many years, if ever.
Yes, that is the vision. And with all visions it is not certain this vision will realize in its full form.
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On 16/02/2024 at 9:01 PM, Bespin said:
the date of the actual release
This is now possible for releases of a label. Example for La-La Land Records: https://www.fmdb.net/labels/bc873b93-4c11-44f5-934b-37199ae9ea53?sort[release_date]=asc
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Just now, Nick1Ø66 said:
I tend to agree with @Jurassic Shark that the logo is a little, well, unremarkable. I didn't realize right away it was supposed to be an "F", it looks like, I don't know, an upside down ribbon to me.
That said, you're the creator, and you should absolutely stick with your vision if you're committed to it, no matter what we lot say. Cool idea and I shall watch your progress with great interest.
Yeah, you are right - it ressembles a ribbon. I'm open to make it more remarkable when I get the chance to do so. Let's see what the future holds.
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22 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:
Also, the logo with just an f is quite nondescript.
The logo is intended to be remarkable. I think it takes a while to get used to it.
22 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:As a way of finding the title one's looking for, I suggest a menu where one can choose the first letter of the title.
I had this system in place a couple of years ago. It works for western languages but gets difficult when you have titles in japanese, chinese, russian and so on. The search should be the tool to find what you are looking for but I already know that there is a lot of room for improvement. This will take some time but I had to start somewhere.
19 hours ago, Stark said:Interesting - may I ask what aspects of this will be different from soundtrackcollector?
Sure. This main differences are that each release has its own page. This makes it easy to point to a specific release instead of having a page with all possible versions of a release.
The linked productions are another aspect. This provides a further dimension of linked information. In addition, as many credits as possible are listed on a single release page.
17 hours ago, Tallguy said:If I can finally look up some massive TV score with 72 tracks and actually tell what episodes the tracks come from? You will have done a real service to humanity.
Exactly this. Sometimes this information is already provided by the labels (e.g. for many of the La-La Land Records releases) or it is done by people like @JNHFan2000 in various threads like
This is an ongoing effort and I hope that some people - maybe from here - will be interested in helping FMDB growing further.
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All jokes aside thank you all very much for the kind words.
20 hours ago, Thor said:Ambitious project, Marcus. Will be interesting to see it develop along. I suppose it will be different from, say, soundtrackcollector.com or soundtrack.net?
Ambitious? Absolutely. I think different in the way one can browse through all the data.
20 hours ago, Bespin said:DATES, WE NEED THE DATES!
You'll be able to sort by date - ascending, descending - in the coming days.
And comparing FMDB with Discogs is a great compliment.
7 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:Oh, you won’t find any obsessive types here. No, sirree.
Oh, what a pity. It was worth a try.
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After a very long time I am very proud to introduce the fully redesigned FMDB - you can find it under https://www.fmdb.net
The vision of this non-profit project is to provide a comprehensive and detailed database of soundtrack releases and recordings. Each release contains at least one production (e.g. a film) with its own credits. This makes it possible to accurately list the various credits. General credits for the entire release are listed separately. Individual tracks are assigned to productions, so you can see which film, TV series or video game they come from. Want to see which episode the tracks from the many STAR TREK releases are from? No problem at all.
But all this only works with people who are as obsessed with detail as I am. And I'm looking for you. To make sure the quality is right, there should be a group of people who take care of it, like curators in a library.
The next feature will be the ability to create your own user account. You will then be able to report errors in records.
I'm happy to receive any kind of feedback to help make FMDB a viable tool for the soundtrack community.
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Pre-recording concert which was planned for Nintendo Live 2024 in Tokyo:
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Super late to this topic but I still have the backups from Scorepedia and also registered scorepedia.org again. If there is any interest I'd gladly hand over the files and can also help with setting up a server.
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Hello everyone.
As a matter of fact the Scorepedia as a project didn't get off the ground. Currently there is only one active user (Justin Boggan) and I have no longer the time to support and maintenance the project in any capacity.
As of now I have set the wiki to read only with a description and link to this topic. If anyone wishes to continue the project, I'd be more than happy to transfer the database and associated files for further progress. Beside running the wiki alone it could be possible to transfer everything to Wikia.
If you are interested please get in touch with me.
Thanks.
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Hello everyone.
As the activity in this thread and in the wiki itself has stalled I'd like to take the opportunity to make it attractive again by changing the look and feel of the wiki.
There are plenty of possible skins to chose from:
The skin should not only be visually appealing but also mobile friendly. Any thoughts?
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So let me know what you think, and if you have any other ideas or questions.
Wow, this is an tremendously detailed article. Thank you very much, Uni.
Uni, would you mind adding some information about registration to the first posting? Anyone who wants to register can contact me through this site or via mail to contact@scorepedia.org.
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Exactly. I actually spent yesterday creating my case-in-point: Poltergeist.
One word: Wow!
Thank you very much for this in-depth article.
I will update the startpage of the wiki to add information about contribution and maybe even add a small showcase for outstanding articles like Poltergeist.
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Hi, is this interesting project still active? I don't see a link in Scorepedia to register.
Yes, the project is still active and if you don't mind sending me a private message, I'll be happy to create an account for you.
Hehe, it died.
Nope, it didn't. I can assure you that the project is dead when the wiki got deleted.
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More spam users.
I have purged those accounts and also added email confirmation for each account. If you want to contribute you need to confirm your email. If this doesn't work I'll restrict registration for the time being.
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Part of the difficulty of this project is the unavoidable perception (whether it is true or not) that Scorepedia duplicates what is already present on Wikipedia. Perhaps the site's purpose is at present consumed by the soundtrack pages on Wikipedia. Scorepedia's name, look, and editable-by-anyone format may be too similar as is. And we've even talked about importing material from Wikipedia. What we have to ask ourselves is, what does Scorepedia offer that Wikipedia does not? If we can come up with something clearly different, we should focus on that and hopefully interest will again resurface. If not, perhaps we should focus on improving the existing pages on Wikipedia.
A project like Scorepedia can be much more specific as Wikipedia when it comes to such specialized topics like filmmusic. Obviously this is true for every specialized wiki.
If I see what trouble the La-La Land Records entry on Wikipedia got I see the value in such a project like Scorepedia.
The greatest problem we have is the will and time to participate. In the last months I was unable to devote any time to the project. But this is the vital point. Having enough time and will to support this idea. So the question is: Shall we proceed with the project? Or should Scorepedia ultimately die to have an answer to the question if such a project useful?
Just thought I would warn Marcus etc. that we are getting spam accounts, with "porn" links.
I've taken care of these users.
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I have a suggestion for all articles in the Score category: The name of the article shouldn't contain the phrase Score and/or Soundtrack. Unlike the Wikipedia there won't be an article for the film itself as it would make no sense. It looks just strange to have it here or there.
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Just a note: The server is currently unavailable due to unknown reasons. The tech-team of the hosting company is aware of the problem and is dealing with the situation. Once the server is back up, I'll inform you.
Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
And we are back.
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Here's their track listing template:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Track_listing
I was able to create a template on Scorepedia, but simply copying the code from Wikipedia didn't seem to work.
I'm currently working on that. But your basic intend was right: Just copy the template from Wikipedia and you're set. However, in this occasion a bit more work obviously needs to be done.
Here's their track listing template:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Track_listing
I was able to create a template on Scorepedia, but simply copying the code from Wikipedia didn't seem to work.
I've successfully integrated the template. You can see a use case here: http://en.scorepedia.org/wiki/Super_8#Soundtrack_Releases_and_Cue_Lists
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So is nobody interested in doing this, or is everybody just too busy?
One one hand much stuff has already been done. I just imported a good dozen composer pages from Wikipedia to have a solid basis. And on the other hand I'm too busy to fully focus on the Scorepedia right now when it comes to the technical side of things. But I think we have a solid stand on which we can build up.
I'm certainly very interested in contributing - it just may take some time for those of us who haven't edited a wiki before to get up to speed. Personally I see it as a great way to collect the kind of information that is mainly only available in scattered posts and threads around this forum. It would be fantastic to have a guide for the layperson that is score-oriented, rather than release-oriented, detailing each score as written/recorded and explaining in detail what releases contain which material. Similar to Jason's extremely helpful cue lists and writeups, but with the potential to be updated by anyone who has further information to contribute.
First things first, I've got to figure out how to add a page...
Just browse to the page you want to create. If the page doesn't exist it will tell you how to add the page. You need to be registered and logged in to create pages.
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Yes, as Wikipedia and Scorepedia use the same Creative Commons License and this allows us to import anything from Wikipedia we wish to. Any edit we do is limited to Scorepedia only. If you (and everyone else) wishes to use this feature please approach me with a list of pages to be imported as this is something I need to do directly on the server. The process itself is really resource intense causing the browser to stop the import.Oh, and we also have the ability to import pages from Wikipedia. I did that with the La-La Land Records article and it worked very well. It did need some afterwork though but that was better than writing anything from scratch.
Does this mean we're ableor allowedto import pages from Wikipedia? Will any edits we make be limited to the local page? (In other words, changing an imported page on Scorepedia won't do anything on Wikipedia, right?)
This would save a considerable amount of time and effort. Rather than constructing entire encyclopedic pages from scratch, we could import information (particularly about composers) and add or change things to make it more appropriate to this site. It would provide a wider base as a foundation to build on.
Well this is really a long term feature but it's definitely on the roadmap.As Mediawiki has a decent API I'd suggest connecting both: All release related information are stored in FMDB which can embed information from
Scorepedia. In full or partial has to be determined. A page like http://www.fmdb.de/person/john-williams-8.html could list all releases FMDB has and fetches it's information about the bio of John Williams directly from Scorepedia incl. a link for more information. On the other hand could all release related information be available via an API and be listed in Scorepedia. This would make complete lists like the one in en.scorepedia.org/wiki/La-La_Land_Records also irrelevant.
I think the latter option would be best. It would be good to have all track information available for each release of any given score, but having to retype all that informationif it's there and useable alreadyseems like a waste of time.
I like that a lot. Wasn't there a thread here somewhere listing all cues from a session? Can't find it anywhere.On the other hand, I think we should have complete cue lists displayed (when available) as part of the article. I don't mean track listings; I mean the cues from the recording sessions themselves. That's the most relevant list when it comes to classifying and describing any score.
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I'll write this feature request down. But there need to be some more brainstorming rounds before this can move forward. And thinking about it, such a feature would be more suited for the wiki (pinging @enderdrag64) with crosslinking.
In other news I just released a very small improvement: hovering of the Hi-Res badge now shows the resolution. The information was already there and is now exposed. Might be useful for some.