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+title: The Joy of Data Entry
+date: 2026-02-21 12:13
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+<figure>
+    <img src="/images/data-entry.webp" alt="The setup"/>
+    <figcaption>The setup</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+I often feel like all crowd-sourced information is already on the internet.
+Sure, there are people who edit Wikipedia furiously.
+But that's not me.
+At least, I _thought_ I would never have anything to offer.
+
+At the beginning of this cozy winter, I took on the task of ripping my household's CDs.
+I'd wake up, put the next letter of an alphabetical stack on my desk, and methodically get to work.
+My [ripper](https://github.com/poddmo/abcde) levereges the [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/) database to look up CD information.
+CDs don't have any metadata on the disk, so wonderful projects like MusicBrainz map raw discs with the artist, album name, track titles, and other metadata.
+
+Out of 257 albums, only eight where not on MusicBrainz! 
+To not break my flow, I set these in another pile as they came up to worry about later.
+My initial idea was to enter in the information locally.
+When I finished the rest of the albums though, I let these linger on the desk.
+
+It took me about a week of gazing at this pile's beady eyes before I relented.
+I started poking around MusicBrainz for the first time to try to understand why it couldn't find my discs.
+That's when I found out maybe everything _isn't_ on the internet.
+
+Most were missing disc IDs.
+Easy fix.
+Look up the release and submit the new ID from the disc.
+
+But how is Q-Tip not on here?
+Turns out it's the [Korean version](https://musicbrainz.org/release/a90f31db-605f-4238-8585-ca57938bbdb4): scan the packaging, make a new release, done.
+
+[Etta James four disc set](https://musicbrainz.org/release/3d32ef0e-0353-4b96-a612-bea655664ac9): budget Euro label, copy over existing song info, verify with packaging, done.
+
+[Operatic two disc set](https://musicbrainz.org/release/e13ac9ab-5a91-4965-bb6b-e552581f300f): every accent and umlaut must be accounted for! Why is the name on the spine different than the name on the cover?
+
+[Stigma](https://musicbrainz.org/release/49aff8a8-9932-400a-a832-a86f8dea7d29): one of these [thrity Stigmas](https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=stigma&type=artist&limit=50&method=indexed) must be them. (They were not, I had to add [another one](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/638dd7c9-cfdd-42bb-9b90-4a4856bfa290).)
+
+It wasn't the most compelling way to spend my time off, but it was rewarding.
+Beyond being able to correctly label my CDs, I had a blast building the collective conscience.
+The physicality of finishing an album and taking another off the stack gave me fuel to continue.
+Digging through booklets and entering in forms brought a sense of peace to me.
+
+My apprecition goes out to all the people who contribute to MusicBrainz and make my life easier.
+Now I just have to get a scanner so I can upload these ablum covers...