#musicbrainz

how are the catalog numbers for digital media releases found/decided? i never see them on the source pages

sometimes they show up on the cover art

there's certain sites that show catalog numbers, for electronic music specifically I use Beatport a lot, JunoDownload and Traxsource also show catalog numbers

i think https://jaxsta.com/ also shows catalog numbers? i don't really use it because you have a limited amount of searches per day or something like that

api or html source code is other sources for them

I found a label not in MB but I'm not sure what to add its type as because there isn't much info available, anyone have any idea? https://www.discogs.com/label/897312-602-Music?... They appear to only have released from one artist

Also finally got to the 100 edit mark

zayd: Why are you adding the label? Their relationship to whatever other thing is the most interesting thing. Are they the label listed on a release? A publisher of a work on a release? A distributor? The function tells us what kind of thing they are, rather than starting with them directly.

Looking at Discogs, it looks like they are the straight-up label for those two Brik releases.

crism: Literally all that I see is that they're the label for the release

not sure about anything other than that

The cover art on Discogs says, “All songs copyright 1999 602 Music.” They don’t use © or ℗ so I’m not sure what’s up…

It is customary for labels to hold ℗ for an album, but © is usually for a publisher.

(This is for _Stitches_, at least.)

Goodbye says, “© 1997 602 Music.” Makes me think it is the corporate or d/b/a identity of the band.

MetalKingdom says Brik recorded with the 602 Music label… Could be kind of a vanity label? But given the only documented usage is copyright, I would be inclined to say 602 is a publisher.

So I add it as a Publisher?

no idea how to get the LC numbers but I doubt this one has one

Looks like there is a Spanish-language entity (group? label?) called 602 Music as well.

Considering their only artist was Brik and Brik is from Arizona, I'll set the area as such

Yeah. Seems like they are closely affiliated with, and maybe are, the band.

Should I set Brik as the owner in that case?

No idea. Not enough information here.

fair

i recently submitted my first edit for a digital reissue of a release. are there guidelines for data that is referenced from file metadata?

zayd: I would hold off on adding details like location and owner if you're not 100% sure. This could very well be a completely foreign label that just happened to release something by an american band

afrocat_[m]: I'm not adding the owner yet but I'm fairly confident in the location as the only band listed on Discogs was from Arizona. If you think it's best to leave it out, I'll do that though

zayd, afrocat_[m]: IMO, the tight association with the band, plus the name (602 is an Arizona area code) justify listing Arizona as the area.

mebious: Not sure. What info are you thinking about?

crism: I'll add that then but leave the owner unset until I find anything else

crism: at the moment i only used the metadata to add a genre tag and for the track length as it seems a bit ambiguous

the file metadata and the information on official streaming pages correlate the track length as 40:31 but the official product page lists the track length as 40:32

picard also seems to process the track length from the digital file as 40:32

Rounding variation is common in cases like that. The track is actually 40 minutes, 31.56 seconds, or something like that…

Within a second, I really wouldn’t stress over it.

i see. i did modify my previous edits to reflect that so the track length is now 40:32

Uh, anyone else getting email notifications for edits on subscriptions that they already got a notification for a few days ago?

I'm editing a digital media release of a recording that originally (on vinyl & CD) had completely different track divisions and lengths... what should I do?

i'm trying to add an album that has 2x CD media and 1x digital download medium using a download code in the liner notes. i tried to add the digital medium as "Digital Download" and the web UI tells me to use "Download Card" instead. i can't find "download card" on https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release/Format - what do?

Looks like it's called "Music Card" on that page

so is 'download card' the right format for this medium?

(that's what the webui dropdown calls it)

it's causing me physical pain to enter a bunch of new releases without cover art, i really hope CAA comes back soon

[05:12] zayd Also finally got to the 100 edit mark

congrats!! 👏

thanks, i'll continue editing to the best of my ability

:D

i still have a few things in my unsorted section of the library that need entries added on mg

mb*

UGH the discord thing is *SO* annoying. now it wants me ot very fy my email. only uh i hadn't added one so idk how to do that

can't acces anything on the thing so idk honestly

it was already really hard to use becasue i couldn't undo images or add amojis for osme reason

atleast matrixsorta makes sense and works

(even if it keepscomplaining about wanting to update which is annoying)