Creating a good, nice looking description for your album uploads is repetitive and unnecessarily hard if you are not using any tools that help you. To that end YADG was created.
What it does
YADG creates great descriptions for you by scraping one of the available sources (as of now: Audiojelly,Beatport, Discogs, Junodownload, Metal-Archives, Musicbrainz, the iTunes Store, Bandcamp) for the release you are looking for and formatting the data. It supports multiple different description formats. For example What.cd-specific and Waffles-specific ones. A plain description format is also available if you want to include that as a text file directly in your upload.
A user script is available to integrate YADG directly into appropriate sections of What and Waffles. Look to the section "User Script" for more about that.
How it works
Using YADG is simple. You have to options:
1. You have the exact link to the release you want: If you have the direct release link at hand you can just enter it in the input box and hit "Fetch". After a few seconds you will have your description.
2. You don't have the exact link to the release you want: If you don't have the direct link you can use YADG to find the release you are looking for. For this enter the search term into the input box, chose which source should be used and hit "Fetch". You will then be presented with a list of releases.
Note: Sometimes YADG will not find what you are looking for. In that case it is still possible that one of the source sites has a release matching your criteria but the way YADG searches the source site just didn't yield it. You might try to search the site directly (for example by opening http://www.discogs.com and entering your search term in the search box). If you find a fitting release you can just copy its direct link and use method 1.
This is what a description generated by YADG might look like (get it yourself):
Various – Miroque Vol. XIII
Label: Totentanz
Catalog#: TOT 23045
Country: Germany
Year: 2006
Genre: Classical, Folk, World, Country, Rock
Style: Folk Rock, Medieval, Folk
Format: CD, Compilation
Tracklist
1. Veitstanz - Aive (4:45)
2. Fabula - Thuja (4:52)
3. Dudelzwerge - Anna Jaemtland (6:33)
4. Corvus Corax - Venus Vina Musica (3:38)
5. Omnia - Teutates (3:45)
6. Pampatut - Bache (2:56)
7. Dunkelschön - Herr Bigenot (2:30)
8. Die Irrlichter - Sto Mi E Milo (3:42)
9. Duivelspack - Das Leben Ist Schön (4:37)
10. Spectaculatius - Ramnasouli (3:23)
11. Qntal - Von Den Elben (Single Edit) (4:47)
12. Faun - Der Stille Grund (3:07)
13. Elster Silberflug - Die Arme Sünderin (3:55)
14. Pantagruel - Stingo (2:30)
15. Die Galgenvögel - Tischlied (3:45)
16. Blackmore's Night - World Of Stone (4:20)
17. Cultus Ferox - Verlorene Seelen (4:11)
18. Schandmaul - Vor Der Schlacht (3:53)
19. Schelmish - Mente Capti (3:50)
More information: http://www.discogs.com/release/2239046
User Script
A user script is available to integrate YADG directly into What and Waffles. For What it supports the upload, album edit and new request pages, for Waffles it supports only the upload and new request pages currently.
In all this sections it will fill in as much fields as it can when it is used. On the upload page that means album title, artists, etc. If supported by the scraper for the chosen source site it will even set the correct artist type ("Main", "Guest", etc.)
A warning with regards to this functionality: It replaces the values you've already typed in.
The usage is equal to how you use YADG directly. See the section "How it works" for more information.
Install user script (tested in Firefox, Chrome and Opera)
Chrome users might have to follow these instructions to install the user script.
How to install the user script in Opera (kudos to tobbez)
For global scripts, go into Preferences -> Advanced tab -> Content -> JavaScript Options, then set the User JavaScript folder and store your scripts there.
Or, for per-site scripts: right click on page -> Edit Site Preferences -> Scripting tab, set User JavaScript folder, and store scripts there.
Then activate user scripts on secure pages if you have not already done so.
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