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Not sure if I should split the singles and the EP's here, or if the singles would be considered promos of the EP :(

Should probably split them huh?

hrm.. probably :/

streaming some editing for an hour or two :D https://www.twitch.tv/aerozol2

Is there a tool to diff to releases? For https://musicbrainz.org/cdtoc/cIOpaTLd0pvja43a5... , the SE variant looks bogus, at least in this very web page. Would be nice to see the actual differences between the two, side by side.

olh: the Swedish release event was added in 2006, when we had only one release with several events

So, it should be (or originally have been) exactly the same

Oh, no, actually, the other was added later :)

So, the Swedish one was the original add

I guess both could be merged into a XE release.

Only if they had the same barcode, legal text etc all around Europe

(I don't know the album)

Sweden was probably picked because they needed to pick something and the artist is Swedish, anyway

Well, if a person in Madrid would have entered a CD, and I got my copy in Berlin, surely I would not go and add another copy. Well, unless I'm in the right mood and check if the details are indeed identical.

s/copy/release/

So, this specific case looks to me like a useless dup, which does nothing bug to interrupt whipper asking for input.

As I said, this was the original add many years before the FR one was added :) But no, you wouldn't add another copy unless it has different details (But hopefully you also wouldn't submit the discID to the existing one unless you've checked those details :) )

so, what to do about it?

If you can't find a source for it, and given the lack of info, you could just merge it, I guess

My physical medium is called "PLATINUM CDR" ...

sounds like a promo item to me

unless they actuallyy distributed all the releases on CDRs

an that is all I got. Who knows who went off with the original a decade ago.

so, am I understanding correctly, that disc ID above is from your CD-R copy?

yes, sure.

so the merge UI is not clear to me. If I select the SE entry, in which the FR entry should be merged into, do I have to use "Merge" or "Append"? The default appears to be append.

Append will give you two discs, merge one

So you want merge

Why does it list both, apparently identical, track lists? Are they not actual identical? At the first glance they are. But this is the place where I expected a (friendly) "diff -u" output.

ah, "Merge" changes the help text.

olh where does it say "PLATINUM CDR"?

is that printed on the disc proper?

or is it a sticker or something?

No. It could also have been "VERBATIM" or whatever. Just another name for "Sicherheitskopie"...

Just cleaning up the house, found old crap.

Sorry, I'm really confused. Are you saying that was the box the disc in or is it something that is printed on the disc proper?

Because if it's something printed on the disc at the factory, I would doubt you have one of the releases listed on Musicrainz, or on Discogss (no CDRs there)

I understand they don't have the original, just this :)

(anymore)

OK, so it's a copy of the original, makes sense.

I guess next Friday morning I will know what the outcome of https://musicbrainz.org/edit/85107184 actually is. The UI does not show that, if there are conflicts or the like.

Hey there! I'm not new to Musicbrainz I've been contributing for a while but I kinda miss some kind of review of the edits/additions. For example I just added this release: https://musicbrainz.org/release/9bc5e8ab-9283-4... and have serious doubts about the track capitalization. Can someone help me doing it right?

In a more general way, I don't know if such a thing exists but is there some kind of peer review / mentoring process?

uZer: well, there's voting, and people who are following any artist or label here will be notified of your edit

The problem is I usually get no vote on any edit/addition I make

Asking here is always ok

Here I'm a bit confused because bandcamp is all lowercase, and the release is too - except the last, German-titled track

I'd expect either all-lowercase is artist intent and it overrides German, or it is not and then everything follows guidelines

Other than that, it all looks good to me

Yeah I'm clearly adding obscure stuff most of the time x) I think this release is lowercase by artist intent too, but I had doubts for the last tracks, thanks for the info!

You could add works to be able to indicate "written by", and add "produced" to the tracks

Ok let me check on the wiki how works work. In the meantime another open edit I have with strong doubts: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/85008498

uZer: unless the same persona / discography, I'd not merge, but link as "legal name Max Ravitz" in the same way Patricia is

OK thanks a lot, I'll do that!

Wow that rg that olh was talking about is stuffed! https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/76f6b686-...

From what I can tell from back covers at Discogs most of the barcodes are with the wrong release country anyway. Dunno if I want to be the one untangling it tbh!

hey uZer, I've subscribed to your edits so they will pop up in my emails. But honestly I probably wont comment unless you've done something weird/wrong :P As Reo says, no news is good news!!

Oh thanks you aerozol! I'm following your twitch channel since a few weeks but didn't get the chance to see you stream yet (maybe a timezone problem :P)

Hehe probably, living in the +12 timezone is pretty special! Hey, isn't it time for a new album from you btw??

I discovered your account thanks to a cover artwork you added on a release that is my worst musicbrainz memory https://musicbrainz.org/release/c7fde848-825e-4...

(this is uZers release from ten years ago afaik everyone https://schematicwizard.bandcamp.com/)

hahaha thanks :D I've got other projects ongoing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4JVI_EYEBemyL...

ooooh did you have to add a ton of new artists on that compilation? was that the difficult part?

Yeah, I know the guy behind this compilation/label (Serendip Labs)... I did typos even on the official release on bandcamp

oh fun! does nullpart have a bandcamp? otherwise will listen shortly

ah you just have to do what you can, others can fix it up if they have a problem

not yet but we did make a soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/null_part

Everything is from jam sessions we did this summer and previous one :')

I'm the little nerd behind the modularsynth, hi! haha

nerds 4 life!!

Thanks for the review and the tools aerozol! I also added Works on my own albums since it's something I know better, and... haha yeah ok it's a lot of work :') Thanks for pointing this is something needed/useful reosarevok!

took longer than I thought - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/65266749-fea7-4d...

I don't often bother with works /naughty

I see the value (esp with classical), but I honestly have too much to add to the DB that takes precedence

haaa thanks for the null.part addition :D

wow amazing you added my friend's profiles

aerozol: boooooo :p

(but fair, for non-reused stuff)

;P

Can a digital release have a barcode? (e.g a album with CD medium + Digital release on bandcamp, barcode on bandcamp, should I put the barcode in the Digital Release too?)

totally, if the barcode is on bandcamp I would add it to the digital release

Spotify and Deezer every release has a barcode

ok thanks

another question sorry :D is there a magic script to find all streaming for free/buy URL for a specific release?

uZer: many digital releases have an UPC

if you have the bandcamp userscript it will reveal the associated UPC

ah wow perfect, I was not familiar with this whole UPC thing, I found the atisket page and the "summit to MB" button :O

ok this is incredible