VGMdb Beta Bug Reports

[Soap]

Not sure where to post this...

But I can't see albums that are "inappropriate" despite being a member.

[Secret Squirrel]

Up in the top right, there is a Sun and a Plus symbol. Click on the Sun and set your options to Show NSFW Images.

[Revoc]

Is it possible to add an "interview" type for the website link system on albums entries? There are some interviews that focus on specific albums, for example:
http://www.originalsoundversion.com/?p=8512

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Revoc

Is it possible to add an "interview" type for the website link system on albums entries? There are some interviews that focus on specific albums, for example:
http://www.originalsoundversion.com/?p=8512

I've added Interview for both albums and orgs now.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Ira

Labels aren't searchable under their unicode/kanji name.

I've added search over this field, so it should work now (for Simple Search.)

[Revoc]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

I've added Interview for both albums and orgs now.

Thanks, SS. However, the Interview type isn't available for links already submitted.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Revoc

Thanks, SS. However, the Interview type isn't available for links already submitted.

Fixed.

Discovered something interesting though. Link submission is using an old deprecated file (albums-submit), so I had made that change it in the wrong place.

[Revoc]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Fixed.

Discovered something interesting though. Link submission is using an old deprecated file (albums-submit), so I had made that change it in the wrong place.

Thanks again! But two more little things:

- The Commercial type is available only after the link was submitted.
- If I add a interview link for some organization, the website adress will appear in the middle, not on the right side, like the artists and albums entries. Take a look here.

[Secret Squirrel]

Hmm, yeah. We probably ought to make the organization websites a bit more uniform.

Also, I forgot that we aren't using the Commerical websites on the album pages, now that we have the purchase links, unless there is a good reason to keep the category.

[Revoc]

I think the Commercial type is being used for trailers with samples, album previews like here. Perhaps this name could be changed (Advertising? I don't know exactly).

[Ira]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

I've added search over this field, so it should work now (for Simple Search.)

The drop down list of results (can't think of a better term for it at the time) still doesn't return them, but doing an actual search works.

Another small issue, if an artist is credited as a variation and an alias on an album it displays 'x ([name], [alias])' instead of 'x ([variation], [alias])' when listed on the artist's page.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Ira

The drop down list of results (can't think of a better term for it at the time) still doesn't return them, but doing an actual search works.

I've fixed this one.

Originally Posted by Ira

Another small issue, if an artist is credited as a variation and an alias on an album it displays 'x ([name], [alias])' instead of 'x ([variation], [alias])' when listed on the artist's page.

Could you point out an example? I'm not sure I follow.

[Ira]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Could you point out an example? I'm not sure I follow.

Here.
For Matsurifu "Koiiro Syndrome -Haru-" it displays 'Arranger (as 13.c.Gilbert, Scarlet Steward)', however, he's credited as 13cGilbert on that album which is a variation so it should display 'Arranger (as 13cGilbert, Scarlet Steward)'. If he wasn't also credited with an alias it would display the variation properly.

[Secret Squirrel]

Oh, i see. The whole point of variations was to remove them from displaying in the discography.

Maybe I should go with Cedile's other suggestion for the breakout, which would be:

Arranger (also as Scarlet Steward)

[Ira]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Oh, i see. The whole point of variations was to remove them from displaying in the discography.

Maybe I should go with Cedile's other suggestion for the breakout, which would be:

Arranger (also as Scarlet Steward)

That works just as well I think. It would also be less verbose in some (most) cases.

[Secret Squirrel]

Okay, we'll go with that and see how it looks on the Bemani artist pages.

[Revoc]

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

Oh, i see. The whole point of variations was to remove them from displaying in the discography.

One thing I would like to discuss. Why necessarily the variations can't display in the discography as the aliases?

Personally, I think this causes some confusion. I recognize that I made many edits of variations as aliases (like this), because I find it interesting to show exactly which name the artist is credited in the album. I think that if our intention is to display the names of albums and tracks with all misspelling, it also must apply to the names of artists. For example, "Calros" Kanno.

[Secret Squirrel]

The rationale for this is here:

http://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.p...tions#post5988

Be sure to look at the two images linked in Blah's first post.

[Revoc]

I still disagree with the way that variations appear in the discography. I think it is interesting in some way that the discographies display the exactly name the artists were credited, whether aliases or variations. I agree that there should be a differentiation between variations and aliases, but I see no reason to hide the variations. Just my opinion. For now I'll made the necessary changes for some artists, like Jun Kajiwara.

[Secret Squirrel]

The concept of removing the variations from the discography listing is something that could be reconsidered, if people are interested in this.

[Cedille]

I personally think we need to be consistent.

http://vgmdb.net/artist/1860
http://vgmdb.net/artist/1873

[Revoc]

Also, I still think it's inconsistent to define when is an alias or a variation with partial names.

Originally Posted by Gigablah

There's no hard and fast rule, if you feel that the partial name isn't sufficient to identify the artist (e.g. their first name is a common one) then you can keep it as an alias rather than a variation.

http://vgmdb.net/artist/4963
http://vgmdb.net/artist/7651
http://vgmdb.net/artist/607

Personally, I think if variations appear in the discography as aliases will solve this problem. I find a bit strange classify the first name of the artist as an alias, but I made this with Yuei Uematsu's profile just because in some albums he is credited with full name and others with first name.

[Ira]

Interesting little bug, if I use quick search to go directly to another album while on an album edit page I get redirected to 'http://vgmdb.net/album/album/' instead of 'http://vgmdb.net/album/'.

[Secret Squirrel]

Odd, I couldn't reproduce it. Was there a specific album and search where you observed this?

[Ira]

No, basically what seems to happening is when you use the keyboard to navigate the quick search results pressing enter directs you right to album pages but it's prepending 'vgmdb.net/album/' to the URL instead of 'vgmdb.net/'. This is different from the behavior observed when clicking on an item in the list, which copies the information shown to the search field and performs a search. This is actually nicer (or rather, it would be if it wasn't broken well, it works everywhere but editing pages) because doing a quick search in the form of 'CAT#: TITLE/ARTIST/etc.' won't always direct you to the appropriate page. I guess I was tired when writing this, the behavior is the same.

[Secret Squirrel]

Okay, I see it now. I wonder if this is related to the catalog number duplication check, which seems to be broken now.

EDIT -- It's because album-edit URLs are now two levels deep: "http://vgmdb.net/album/18614/edit", but the link paths are all relative: "../album/$albumid."

This problem occurs both when clicking and when hitting return. Not sure the best way to fix it.

[Datschge]

Make the link path absolute, ie. "/album/$albumid" without the leading dots.

[Secret Squirrel]

Yeah, that's the easy solution, but there must be some reason that it's not currently that way. It could just be a legacy from when we allowed vgmdb.org, but I think that all gets redirected to vgmdb.net now.

[Datschge]

If you start the URI with / the host name doesn't matter, it just refers to the root directory.

[Secret Squirrel]

Thanks. I made the change, and it seems to work. Hopefully this doesn't have any unexpected effects on anything else.