Idea: VGMdb import script about musicbrainz-userscripts HOT 9 CLOSED

The Track Parser on MBz’ site has been perfectly suitable to me for seeding the structured data that VGMdb does provide.

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I'm not so sure about having a VGMdb importer, but I would love to see a userscript to see if a VGMdb entity has a matching MusicBrainz entity.

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For reference, there's no official API.
However there's an unofficial but maintained API provided by http://vgmdb.info/ that provides information in different formats (including JSON).

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VGMDB handles multiple artist releases quite differently than MusicBrainz so they may be a bit tricky.

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VGMDB lists performers, but does it provide them per track somewhere ? API seems to list them for the whole album
I'm not familiar with this site, how does it list Various Artists or Unknown artists ?
Also it lists tracks in english and japanese, is there a way to know which one appears on the release itself ?
Example: http://vgmdb.info/album/1279?format=json
Also, it seems to me most albums there should follow classical style (performers / composers / lyricists), what do you think ?

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@murdos : VGMDB provides a lot of cover art, can we import them somehow ? Related to #50

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Soundtracks ("Classification: Original Soundtrack" on VGMdb) should follow Style/Specific types of releases/Soundtrack. A fair amount of the releases aren't soundtracks and should follow ordinary style.

I think track artists are only in the Notes section if there's more than one, so that would have to be manual. Might be a problem to find release artist in some cases as well.

It would probably be safe to assume that if a track has a Japanese tracklist, that's the one that appears on the release.

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@zas: Cover art upload (#50) is kind of a nightmare because of CORS, that's why I've not yet achieved a Discogs uploader script.
The solution I found involves cross-origin communication using Window.postMessage() but I've not found the energy to work on it again. I'll try to make as generic as possible to reuse it on other sites.

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This is not really a JS userscript, but it may be useful.

I created a small Python script to import data into the "Add Release" form just like the "Add Release" Picard plugin does, using the VGMDB.info API : https://gist.github.com/fxthomas/fd85e906e41f4e6e06f38e92a497005b.

After using it you still need to clean up the data, but at least the tracklist is there and mostly complete, which is what usually takes time when adding albums manually!

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