From e21587eca6c8ac56c24929e5210f05da2ca8865d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henry Webster Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:46:05 -0500 Subject: backfill blog posts --- posts/data-entry.md | 47 ----------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 47 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 posts/data-entry.md (limited to 'posts/data-entry.md') diff --git a/posts/data-entry.md b/posts/data-entry.md deleted file mode 100644 index 0a0ed66..0000000 --- a/posts/data-entry.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -title: The Joy of Data Entry -date: 2026-02-21 12:13 ---- -
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The setup
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- -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... -- cgit v1.3