#musicbrainz

goldenshimmer: what is the name on the covers?

(assuming there are covers)

If it's the new name, 100% just ignore sloppy platform stuff

If they have separate covers then those would be separate releases, but I would be surprised if that was the case

I bwondering about how our numbers compare to Discogs and Gracenote. Is there a way to compare them? I asked a chatbot and got this as an estimate

* I am wondering about how our numbers compare to Discogs and Gracenote. Is there a way to compare them? I asked a chatbot and got this as an estimate

Well ours are at https://musicbrainz.org/statistics

<reosarevok[m]> "goldenshimmer: what is the..." <- Hm. Looked at it again and it’s messier than I thought. Most of them have no name on the cover. The only one with a name on the cover has the old name… even where it shows up listed under the new name. Haven’t checked them all yet, but for the two I’ve looked at, the phonographic copyright is 2021, matching the Bandcamp release dates. The release dates Deezer has are

2022. The release dates shown on other stores are 2018, which matches the SoundCloud upload dates. Current hypothesis: uploaded to SoundCloud under old name (2018), uploaded to Bandcamp under new name (2021), SoundCloud renamed sometime or other, uploaded to other stores 2022 but with the date set to 2018 (under new name except for Apple Music and it looks like Pandora). I’ll dig into it more later. Thank you for your reply!

howdy

Hello, is it possible to -merge- artists? There's 2 artists in the DB that are technically the same person, they're just written a little strangely because of how they're credited on albums

It's coda (I think the lowercase is probably important) https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cea05738-9dfd-4d...

and Ken Snyder https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f550efee-491a-42...

You'll see the CD version of the neurodiver soundtrack is credited to one, but the digital media version to the other.

And in steam (where I got the album from) he's listed as Ken "coda" Snyder

@MrDowntempo: Yes, merging artists is possible, through a link in the sidebar

sometimes it's legitimate to have multiple artists for the same person like this, including for the legal name, but there isn't a clear line in every case

in this example, you could probably merge them reasonably well

Ok, yeah I can imagine cases where it'd make sense to split an artists work, but this one just looked like the product of how different albums got tagged by game publishers

Is this a case where I'd check the Update Matching artist and relationship credits box? It's not really a typo per se... so

Sorry I'm still new to these sorts of edits (and editing in general) and worry I'm only making it worse :D

probably not in this case

the way the artist for the legal name is credited on the releases seems to match the source

that checkbox is relitvely rarely useful and quite dangerous in that you have the ability to overwrite quite a lot of work with it, which has to be manually fixed one artist at a time if it turns out to have been wrong

(although any merge needs to go through voting anyway)

Thanks, the warning made me worry, but the description wasn't super clear

Submitted! :D

Sounds like it'd be better if artists could be linked rather than having to merge them. That'd be much easier to undo.