got a question about 'mediums' for digital releases. I'm unsure what the guideline is for them? In most cases I would presume one singular medium is sufficient and logical for a digital release; but can there be justifiable cases to use multiple mediums? for instance if the release is sequenced with CD-R burning in mind?
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crism
zoedivision[m]: IMO, it’s really about what someone would look for in the track listing after tagging their files. I have one “album” that was a USB stick with three folders of MP3s; I entered that as 1 release with 3 media. If the digital release somehow simulates a 2-disc album, then I would follow that, I guess.
Plenty of "disc 1" "disc 2" in places like Spotify which we would also keep separate
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ivy
i always add digital releases with multiple media if i can find at least one source to support this (deezer tends to be good for this)
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ivy
if it's specifically a bandcamp release and the album is released as 300 tracks on one medium then don't, but
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reosarevok[m]
"piano trio" - type: quartet
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reosarevok[m]
The extremes to what people will go to always fill all the fields whether they make sense or not
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rashapx7[m]
Thankyou so much for ur help
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ivy
reosarevok[m]: the fourth musician is the listener
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dvirtz[m]
I thought it's the piano
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Vacuity_
I have two CDs in hand that have exaxtly the same tracks as the two differently named releases in this group: https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/0efd8250-71… . Both have different names ("Playboy" and "Sexual Feeling" from a different labels and have different barcodes and covers. should I a) add them both to the existing group with their respective additional names. or b)
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Vacuity_
add new groups, one for each?
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Vacuity_
(according to Picard the DiscIds are all different, as the track lengths seem to differ slightly)
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Cheezmo
The notes on the Discogs for the release group seem to explain the situation. I would say it is one release group. "Licensed to many small labels that released it under different names".
ah, great find, thanks. Then I will add them both to this group, with their respective release names. (and of course add DiscId and cover art)
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Cheezmo
If it isn't there already, adding a similar annotation to the release group would be helpful.
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Vacuity_
it is not. I will add it.
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ridge[m]
Hey I'm having a spot of trouble adding some album art. The automatically resized version comes out with the wrong colour, like with a colour banding effect. Does anyone know what's up with this? I tried saving in different formats and uploading again, but it happened to that as well. https://musicbrainz.org/release/2c778b17-9d4a-43f…
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aerozol[m]
Not sure there’s anything you/we can do - the Internet Archive does the image processing on their end.
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aerozol[m]
The issue seems to be that the original images already has banding. I added some more provider URLs to the release using Harmony, you could try importing a larger original image (eg 3x3k px) from one of those sources. I don’t know if that would help though.
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ridge[m]
I'll try that, thanks aerozol. I just saw your note BTW, good tip :)
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aerozol[m]
Np! If you use userscripts then I can highly recommend the 'enhanced cover art' script to make importing the covers a breeze
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ridge[m]
I'll have to look into that, automation in general would help. Everything I've done on the site so far has been manually.
