VGMdb Beta Bug Reports

[Fearin]

I figured the Final Fantasy part made it over the 2 character limit and would be fine finding 2 letter or 1 letter words. Why is there a moratorium on using small words anyways?

It wouldn't even be so bad if instead of numerical/alphabetical when searching it would put most relevant to the search at top and once the relevant ones were shown everything below them could be numerical/alphabetical

Search should be a bit more intuitive and the quotation use seems a bit weird when the bar itself will even search out for specific entries.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Fearin

Why is there a moratorium on using small words anyways?

Small searches return too many results to be useful to the searcher. It's just extra server load for not much gain.

I can't even really put in a fix for roman numerals without a wholesale change on the search queries (as in, they'd have to use regex to find the word boundaries, so you don't find every word with the letter v when searching for 'V'.)

Still, it's possible to make these changes, but we'd have it would really depend on how unsatisfied everyone is with what we have now. We could also change it so that the whole search-phrase is considered as one block of text, though that has ramifications as well.

[Fearin]

I do agree somewhat with making boundaries, however sooner or later there will most likely be albums named "I", "It", "We" etc. How much server load of a difference will be made? I would hazard a guess at not much, since most of the single and double letter inputs fall to mostly roman numeral numbers, and the rest are simple words.

Bounding closer to what was searched may be less strain than just opening up for 1 and 2 letter words/numbers.

A fix which I am not sure how it would be put in, could be something closer to using the unicode roman numerals. Specifically most of combinations that would be separate from actual words don't have many uses outside. II, XI, IV, etc. Of course you would still have problems with the single I for 1, but on the plus side you can also link other number forms to it too.

I guess in the end it comes down to usability, and familiarity. The more like things they already know, the easier it is to use and find what they want. So something more like the major search engines used to crawl the internet may be the best way. Of course a VGMDB twist on it wouldn't be bad either.

[Myrkul]

Maybe not a bug, but i want to be sure about that..

Is it normal that "inactive" albums shows in the calandar ?
(ex: January 2011: "Dragon Knight II PC Engine World", "Fairy Queen" "The Legend of the Peach Girl Soundtrack") still are visible for (un)registered members.
Even if the links leads to nowhere for them.

Or is it just needed for practical use for staff members? (ex, to reuse them)

I still think they should not show at all, and an option or a tool could be created for staff members to find all inactive albums (or maybe something like this already exist?)

[Secret Squirrel]

Those definitely shouldn't show up on the calendar. I'll have to fix that tonight.

[Cedille]

Originally Posted by Myrkul

I still think they should not show at all, and an option or a tool could be created for staff members to find all inactive albums (or maybe something like this already exist?)

There exists the checkbox on the search page.

[Myrkul]

Originally Posted by Cedille

There exists the checkbox on the search page.

Found it, thanks

[beemiaUsatoes]

Hello everyone

First of all sorry that I write in this topic but I have some technical problem with the use of this forum. When I'm trying to enter in the appropriate topic, I received a 404 error It's about the only topic in which I was able to enter. Do you have the same problems? What's going on?

[Myrkul]

@ beemiaUsatoes

I don't know if that's a real request, or a spam bot..
but no need to post the same thread in all the board, so i deleted all these posts but this one.

[CHz]

Ampersands get double escaped in product page titles/headers, so they're displayed as "&": http://vgmdb.net/product/654.

EDIT: Release pages also: http://vgmdb.net/db/release.php?id=926.

ANOTHER EDIT: Furthermore, product linking pages for albums: http://vgmdb.net/db/product-assign.php?albumid=18645. Notice on the linking page for that album that both the suggestion popup in the "Unlinked Products" section and the first text box in the "Unassigned Products" section both do it. It also does it for linked products, as here: http://vgmdb.net/db/product-assign.php?albumid=2971.

[Secret Squirrel]

Ampersands get double escaped in product page titles/headers, so they're displayed as "&": http://vgmdb.net/product/654.

EDIT: Release pages also: http://vgmdb.net/db/release.php?id=926.

ANOTHER EDIT: Furthermore, product linking pages for albums: http://vgmdb.net/db/product-assign.php?albumid=18645. Notice on the linking page for that album that both the suggestion popup in the "Unlinked Products" section and the first text box in the "Unassigned Products" section both do it. It also does it for linked products, as here: http://vgmdb.net/db/product-assign.php?albumid=2971.

Thanks, I think I've got them all fixed.

[CHz]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Thanks, I think I've got them all fixed.

Excellent. I looked around and those were the only ones I could find, but if I notice any more I'll let you know.

[Cedille]

http://vgmdb.net/album/24235
http://vgmdb.net/album/15684
http://vgmdb.net/album/14427

All the albums above have "Ys I&II Chronicles" in the product table, but don't show up as the related album each other (I tried to copy & paste the text, but was told "no valid submission was detected", so the text must be the same).

[Datschge]

That may be a case of "&" not being escaped correctly.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Cedille

http://vgmdb.net/album/24235
http://vgmdb.net/album/15684
http://vgmdb.net/album/14427

All the albums above have "Ys I&II Chronicles" in the product table, but don't show up as the related album each other (I tried to copy & paste the text, but was told "no valid submission was detected", so the text must be the same).

I got it to work for "&" for now. I'll worry about the general case later, since eventually we'd like to replace this with something more sensible.

[CHz]

UNDER17 is linked as a featured artist to DEVIL'S DAUGHTER [MIA009]. However, the CD appears in their artist page as a normal, non-featured work. It appears correctly as featured on all of the other featured composers' artist pages.

[Gigablah]

That's because they're also linked as lyricist, but without the "featured" flag. If an artist is linked with both featured and active roles, the album is regarded as an "active" work by default. (I should change the terminology, "non-featured" sounds strange)

[CHz]

Ah ha, didn't even notice that. Thanks~

[Cedille]

I rejected the edits which changed Kazane to an alias of Harumi Sakurai, but I can't moderate the remaining edits and unhook the two.

http://vgmdb.net/artist/10345

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Cedille

I rejected the edits which changed Kazane to an alias of Harumi Sakurai, but I can't moderate the remaining edits and unhook the two.

http://vgmdb.net/artist/10345

This was a toughie, but we were saving a couple of temporary variables (parentlink, parentchoice), but not the real variable (parentid) in the mod queue. This is fixed now, so we should be fine going forward. I wonder why this never came up before.

EDIT - Looks like it's all working smoothly now. Rejected the new edit.

[Medina]

I have a folder that I store some of my collection in. I cannot open any entry links in this folder by holding Ctrl and clicking (which should open it up in a new tab). I can Ctrl+click on entry links in my collection's base and it works just fine, but not within a folder.

I'm using Firefox 3.6.15.

[Cedille]

http://vgmdb.net/album/20980

The product field of this album...

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Cedille

http://vgmdb.net/album/20980

The product field of this album...

I wouldn't call that a bug. Somebody pasted that link into the bottom field in the edit product page and linked it. They should have done it in edit links.

Though I will need to figure out why there is an empty textbox at the bottom of the page when there is no product. That's what caused the confusion.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Medina

I have a folder that I store some of my collection in. I cannot open any entry links in this folder by holding Ctrl and clicking (which should open it up in a new tab). I can Ctrl+click on entry links in my collection's base and it works just fine, but not within a folder.

I'm using Firefox 3.6.15.

I verified this happens in my collection too. I don't know why though, probably some java-script things, so we'll have to summon Blah on this one.

[Datschge]

The way reprints are currently handled is somewhat irritating. I wanted to check whether the Musea reprint of Gikyokuonsou is missing some scans. Through Sakuraba's discography that reprint can't be found. That's fine since it's a reprint, so let's look at the original. But there as well there's no link to the reprint (I'd suggest putting such into the "Related Albums" list to the right), while the only scan on there turned out to be one of the Musea reprint... Then there also exist a Japanese/Katakana tracklist which shouldn't appear for the French reprint, respectively need to be proven through (not yet existing) scans of the original first.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Datschge

The way reprints are currently handled is somewhat irritating. I wanted to check whether the Musea reprint of Gikyokuonsou is missing some scans. Through Sakuraba's discography that reprint can't be found. That's fine since it's a reprint, so let's look at the original. But there as well there's no link to the reprint (I'd suggest putting such into the "Related Albums" list to the right), while the only scan on there turned out to be one of the Musea reprint... Then there also exist a Japanese/Katakana tracklist which shouldn't appear for the French reprint, respectively need to be proven through (not yet existing) scans of the original first.

On the parent album, click on the little arrow next to the catalog number. It brings up a drop-down that shows all reprintings.

All tracklists from the parent album always carry over to the child album, until someone submits a new tracklist for the child album. This delinks the tracklists (and this behavior is probably one of the most confusing things about the submission tools.)

[dancey]

I think this is recent because I just noticed it today, maybe yesterday and don't remember seeing it, but there's a break in the image header after "Chat" that doesn't make it look seemless. I thought maybe it was a browser issue but it showed up like that on my iPhone as well.

Screenshot is from Chrome 10.0.648.204, iPhone is Safari something. I don't think I updated my phone to iOS 4.3 I think I'm still on 4.2 (didn't care about Air Play enough to sync).

http://dancey.pairsite.com/img/seamBreak.png

[Fearin]

Not sure if this counts as a bug, looking up Beyond Good and Evil doesn't return for Beyond good & Evil

Shouldn't an Ampersand be attached to the word and?

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Fearin

Not sure if this counts as a bug, looking up Beyond Good and Evil doesn't return for Beyond good & Evil

Shouldn't an Ampersand be attached to the word and?

I don't think you want to do that in all cases, or you won't be able to find something like this.

[Fearin]

What I meant about attached is that looking up the word and or the & in a title would return both sides of the coin, So beyond good and evil would find an album named beyond good and evil, and an album named beyond good & evil (assuming two different albums exist). That way the dondon pachi could be found with or without the use of the ampersand also.

My problems with google chrome have yet to change (relating to the image opening and closing not being able to reopen them)

I also came across what is a small annoyance which may just be me. The google chrome user name/password area the text is white on a bright yellow background, a bit impossible to see if it is filled correctly or not.

I am not sure if this counts as a "bug" however I noticed that represented products seems a bit small and a small extra field for series could be introduced. It can hold say a link to the whole series of games and any albums that deal with them, Assuming Megaman all megaman and rockman would exist on the page, it could be slimmed down from over arching series to also smaller in series, IE megaman X series.