A lame thing happened on the way to the forum
I want to get Razones para una sonrisa by José Luis RodrÃguez into MusicBrainz. This album is already in FreeDB as rock / ac0be80c, and being able to to a FreeDB import saves me the trouble of typing everything into the web form by hand, as well as populating the Disc ID, which is not something I can do through the web interface with a normal edit.
Alas, MB can't grab rock / ac0be80c, because it seems to be using some sort of tracktype.org thing instead of freedb.org. I wonder how I can complain about this. It seems that the two avenues are #musicbrainz on freenode and the web forums. #musicbrainz has two strikes against it; it is on freenode and it is publicly-logged. The web forums have the unfortunate downside of being web forums.
It's a terrible decision to have to face, but eventually I decide that for the greater good, I will post on a web forum and just feel dirty and lame through approximately three days of constant showering. So what happens? Apparently the forums are on a different authentication system than the rest of MusicBrainz. I do not register. I give up.