#musicbrainz

bergen is very rainy thoguh. and also cold, a

and the bergenser are weird

weird how

Rainy and cold are my favorite. Mostly, though, I want to explore some of the music if I can.

Picard experts, I had to reload my computer. Have re-installed picard (latest) but it is not showing the "Add cluster as a release" on a right click. It is showing it as installed though, any thoughs?

*thoughts?

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A release in hand lists "Copyright 2000 SongStick", which is http://songstick.com/. Thoughts on whether to add this as a label?

Leftmost, that's the only way to create a © relationship, so seems like the way to go.

They're all self-releases, so it makes sense to me that it'd be the label, since it's the guy's company. Just like to make sure.

Thanks, Caller.

Too bad there aren't generic "entities".

+1 CallerNo6

Oh, I shouldn't have said "the only way", since there's an artist-release "copyright" too.

but if I had to choose, that seems more like a label than like a person.

I think we need a new entitiy "company" OR that "label" could have type "company"

I've come across a probme lie kthis too myself

Yeah. It makes the most sense to me to have it under the same umbrella as major labels, since it strikes me as a "release label", as nebulous as that concept is.

so here's two extremely similar compilation albums, with virtually the same name, but with one track different between them and released 8 years apart: https://musicbrainz.org/release/a28a61f8-bf4f-4... https://musicbrainz.org/release/77a3cd12-bad8-4...

is that close enough to make them two releases of a release group?

i say yes

+1

I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to reprint it but no longer had rights to one of the tracks or something, yeah.

There can be regional differences in licensing too.

yeah I'm wondering what happened, maybe there was a sample that turned out to be something offensive in another language...

Release groups often have slight differences in tracks, so I think this is a perfect case for merging the release groups.

With compilations, it's a fair question, since there might be unrelated comps called "best of <foo>" with mostly the same tracks.

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8dec8546-... is an interesting case of the sample clearance issue - one of the tracks on the original release was replaced, and the album re-released (confusingly, with the same catalogue number)

oh yeesh!

ok, here's an unrelated question:

so there's a kinda weirdly-titled album series that goes like "Moz-Art presents Mysterious Traveller: Afroart"

I had entered that as "Moz-Art (artist) presents (linking) Mysterious Traveller (artist)" for the artist (Moz-Art and Mysterious Traveller are both artists) and "Afroart" for the album title

but somebody else has entered another one as "Moz-Art" as the artist and "Mysterious Traveler:Brazilart" as the album name

actually I guess I can just link them: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/86e606d1-... https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/4f1a9fef-...

I'm pretty sure I'm in the right, here? Should I rename / reassign the Brazilart one?

(that's how it is on Discogs, anyway: https://www.discogs.com/Moz-Art-Presents-Myster... )

anyway I mean I guess I'll just go for it and let the votes decide :P that's what the voting system's there for...

ok, another question: if an artist is credited as something, will that make them turn up in a search for the thing they're credited as automatically, or should I also make an alias for it on their artist page?

like, if something already appears in the 'artist credits' section of their aliases page, should it be manually added to the 'aliases' list too or is that enough