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good morning :) I have a digital release which includes a video (mp4), does the guideline say anything about this? Should this be included somehow?

noobie: I'd add it at the end of it and mark it as video

You need to add it normally, then go to the recording and edit it to set it as video :)

cool, thanks :)

one last question: should I include the (Official Video) in the title?

I wouldn't

thanks. Now the master question: should an remixed album (every track a remix of the original album) go to the same release group ? :D

s/an/a

yes

Thanks, the tracklist has (remix) in the title name for each track, feels clunky to keep this because the album subtitle is ":The Remixes" already, should I ommit them?

no

cool, thanks :)

:-)

Wait. Should it, SothoTalKer?

IMO it should not...

Oh :D

why not?

Well, because if I have a remix album, I don't have the album

I have something else

RGs are supposed to be mostly equivalent, and a remix album to me does not feel equivalent at all

Seems both options are "correct", anyway

Or rather, we don't have a correct one :D

you should open up a discussion in the forums :)

the style guide is not clear, but it would be nice, if it was :-p

According to reosarevok 's link there has been more than one discussion about this :D

Yeah, it's just people don't agree :p

IMO it's obviously different RGs for albums, but trickier for singles

well, for me it does not really matter. you can make it a separate RG, if you wish :p

reosarevok: : well, you are auto editor, right, feel like fixing it ? :P ;)

haha

Happy to, if you give me a link

(although "fixing" is just "making it follow my liking", here :p )

thanks (also for adding the RS) :)

Alright, now the instrumental version, is there a secondary type for that (obviously there's none called "instrumental") ?

Nope, not currently at least

noobie: You can add a tag, "instrumental", to the release group (and/or release and/or individual recordings), but no proper type as of now.

Since the release has an ": The Instrumentals" subtitle and each recording "(instrumental)" in the title I'll take the lazy approach and leave it as is :)

Hmmm.

When does it make sense to add another medium to an existing release versus adding another release?

I've never understood the difference, since it seems widely established that different mediums (digital, CD, vinyl, etc.) are added as new releases

But I wonder what the purpose of adding a new medium is…?

Never mind… I read the docs. https://beta.musicbrainz.org/doc/Medium :P

As I understand it, mediums would be for when you have multiple pieces of a single release, like two discs for a double album

Makes so much sense now

Didn't know it also applied for digital releases. I'll probably go back and make some edits now…