has there been any thought, discussion, or consensus on specifying track lengths on vinyl media where it's not listed on the packaging? IIRC discogs's policy is you don't enter it, maybe until or unless you've played and timed them. Which seems logical to me. Cuz I've encountered one scenario with an album where I got into the official web release of an album, and then finally decided to rip the LP version, and found out some of
the tracks had been shortened to fit vinyl ðŸ˜
So it seems better to me not to just assume the vinyl lengths are the same as other versions.
(actually I suppose this should extend to any analog medium, haha)
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derwin
zoedivision[m]: in general, I'm tagging files, which have durations.
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zoedivision[m]
so you have the vinyl rips and can verify the lengths
I agree with this. If you don't have track lengths from either a rip or the sleeve, don't assume they're the same as another release.
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relaxo[m]
UltraFuzzy (IRC) exactly for that. Not an iTunes user here so can not tell about that. But for me it is enough to keep the basic tags and the embedded cover art. I use the files to hear music from usb in my car.
UltraFuzzy
Can someone ELI5 the meaning of the gold disc with the red asterisk status icon? I don't understand what this part of the description in the docs means: "and that the information for the release has been modified"
reosarevok[m]
I guess the point is that there is some changes to the tags to save? :)
UltraFuzzy
ok, the confusion was that it was giving me the asterisk because I had additional tags but I also had 'Clear existing tags' turned off so it wasn't showing me those additional tags
wait no, that wasn't it, every time I reload files back into Picard it still gives me the asterisk, is that just how it is when you add files?
reosarevok[m]
I guess if there's some tags that are not getting saved they might always show as different? Bob Swift or zas would know
UltraFuzzy
So it is possible to load in files and get a clean golden disc without pressing save?
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rinsuki[m]
I think you can just create new release group and move release to new one
naxay07[m]
[UltraFuzzy (IRC)](https://matrix.to/#/@irc_UltraFuzzy:chatbrainz.org) Golden disk means you have all the tracks in that release. It's possible to load files without any tags and get a golden disc (e.g. acoustid matching)
It's still possible to get an asterisk (unsaved changes) even for tracks you just saved. I don't really know why that happens, windows Explorer might be doing something that breaks 1:1 match confidence of picard or it's just server side has been changed so there really are new changes
