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For a long time, this very helpful script was the only way to add batch ARs to tracks. Nowadays though, the server natively supports adding ARs to a selection of tracks in a release. While this script may still be of interest for people interested in the mechanics (and while it still is somewhat more flexible than what the site proposes), most editors probably don't have a need for it anymore, and newcomers are strongly discouraged to try using it!

Batch Add Relationships

A script to perform batched adds of AdvancedRelationships.

This is to be run client-side; for each relationship which is to be added, it opens the user's web browser with ServerAccessEditingURLs at the appropriate page so they can (ideally) just click "submit" to enter the mod.

Tentative File-format

Entity Selection

Two lines, each of the following format:
Track: TrackID, TrackID, ...
Release: ReleaseID, ReleaseID, ...
Artist: ArtistID, ArtistID, ...

Relationship Parameters

Type: -- mandatory, valid values depend on entity-type0, and entity-type1...
Note: EditNote -- optional, default is blank

AdvancedRelationshipAttribute``s

Guest -- boolean, default no, present yes
Additional --boolean, default no, present yes
Minor -- boolean, default no, present yes
Vocal -- set, small number of possibilities
Instrument -- set, large number of possibilities, need large lookup-table...
BeginDate/EndDate -- dates
Orchestra -- set, small number of possibilites

Example

# John Denver 
artist 1121
# Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
artist 353645
type does/did vocal support for
baritone
guest
note: do not submit this!
enddate 2005-01-02

# Disney, John Denver
artist 104 1121
# Only To Be With You, Find Me, When Will You Fall For Me
track 5739302 5739308 5739311
type dj-mixed
note hah! yeah right...
additional

# Die Schöne und das Biest (disc 1), La Belle et la Bête
release 38306 325615
# Marilyn Manson (group)
artist 187
guest
type produced material that was sampled in
note like that'd happen

Invocation

batchaddars files...

opens add relationship edits in new browser tabs.

Operation

Break files into stanzas
Foreach stanza
- Parse first and second lines, extract type of entities, read entity ids
- parse relationship parameters
- Foreach (Entity1, Entity2) pair
  - queue an edit to add a relationship between Entity1 and Entity2 with specified parameters
Foeach edit
- open new tab to for the edit
- Delay a few seconds to reduce server load.

Files

batchaddars-4.pl -- the script 2006-05-06

ChangeLog

Prototype
First working release
Complete tables, inline tables into script
Fix bug with only one stanza

ToDo

Allow specifying track n of release y, rather than requiring the rowid of the track
Allow specifying entities by uuid in addition to rowid
Think about URLs
- Probably need to be a seprate script, given it's a seprate form...

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