albunack.net - Combined MusicBrainz/Discogs discography and Discogs Release Importer/Linker site

For years Ive wanted to something to make it easier for editors to get 
data into MusicBrainz from Discogs in some form or other but never 
seemed to have the time. In the past I found the Import Discogs 
Greasemonkey Script quite useful but the major difficulty has been 
finding releases to add in the first case, and Geordi did not quite get 
to what I was hoping for so in the last month I have been working on 
something and now I have beta available as:

http://albunack.net

The idea is you look up an artist and it shows you a combined 
Musicbrainz + Discogs discography, showing releasegroups/release and 
tracks on a single page. This makes it easier to see gaps in the 
Musicbrainz which could be filled by data from Discogs, and makes it 
easier to add that data:

It shows any existing links between MusicBrainz and Discogs matches.
It also matches up Musicbrainz releases without a Discogs link to 
potential Discogs releases and lists these matches together with a 
*Link* button to seed a MusicBrainz Edit release.
It provides an *Import* button to seed a MusicBrainz Add Release from 
other Discogs releases not linked to Musicbrainz

Currently it *only* shows releases where the artist is the only album 
artist credit (i.e we dont list collaborations, nor Various Artist releases)

Of course, the user still has to make decisions about the data and check 
the data before submitting anything to MusicBrainz, and everything still 
goes through the edit system.
I also have various report data currently in the form of SQL tables that 
I plan to add to the site as reports.

All the data is provided by by my own webservice and no calls to 
Musicbrainz webservice are made. The only disavantage being that the 
data is cached so if you add or link a release that won't be reflected 
until I next rebuild the database from MusicBrainz, this is planned to 
be weekly, but more random that that at the moment.

I've been testing it out (with Firefox) and its been working well for me 
(except rather slow for looking up long-established artists with 
thousands of releases and track listings of multi-disc Discogs releases 
- so perhaps ignore those for now, ) , so I hope you like it and that it 
will be useful for MusicBrainz editors.*I would appreciate some some 
feedback from you before publicly announcing it.*

I can't currently make the website open-source but I've put some 
rendered pages into a bitbucket project together with bug tracker 
https://bitbucket.org/ijabz/albunack-website/ for raising any issues.

Paul/ijabz

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