[Abcde-users] musicbrainz submission

[Long Vu]

About automatically firing up the browser, can this be optional?

The primary reason that draw me to abcde is it's a commandline 
application that do not need any X Windows dependencies.

I'd like to preserve the default behavior to be free of any dependencies 
on X Windows applications.

Thanks.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Abcde-users] musicbrainz submission
From: abcde.laubster at antichef.com
To: abcde-users at lists.einval.com
Date: 2017-09-10 09:24 PM

> Hi. I'm wondering how abcde users upload data to musicbrainz. I don't
> believe that service allows submission by email the way freedb does, so
> something more involved is needed.
> 
> Well over a year ago, I added some logic to my copy of version 2.7.1.  If
> a musicbrainz lookup is unsuccessful, then abcde asks if it the user would
> like to submit to the database.  If the user accepts the default of "N",
> abcde falls into the existing logic ("Edit selected CDDB data", ...).  But
> if the user does elect to submit, abcde spits out an URL, and waits for the
> user to hit return once the submission is complete, at which time it loops
> back to retry the lookup.  An example:
> 
>      $ ./abcde
>      Grabbing entire CD - tracks: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
> 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
>      Submit [y/N]? y
>      Visit
> http://musicbrainz.org/cdtoc/attach?id=Qd_UXLu_NqEJMdoEwPMbjW1z.ws-&toc=1+21+354001+150+23968+37320+58878+74921+85181+109275+125115+142265+162124+170681+193169+212236+236162+247869+265423+276215+290023+306884+327003+338615
>      Then hit enter to retry lookup...
> 
> The only improvement I can think that might be useful is to automatically
> fire up the browser, instead of forcing the user to open the link from the
> terminal, but finding the browser to run might cause more heartache than
> it's worth.
> 
> Does this sound like a change with wide enough appeal to warrant me
> requesting a pull after getting it runnable in a fork of the current code?
> 
> 
> 
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