I used spotify to compare recordings but now i heard they are mixing and matching tracks from different releases. E.g. you might get a live recording on a studio album. Can someone confirm this?
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elomatreb[m]
shisma. (@_discord_971766217830432858:chatbrainz.org) Spotify will substitute recordings in case the intended recording (track in their terminology) is not available/licensed for your region, but generally it's not supposed to swap clearly different versions
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elomatreb[m]
of course that relies on their data quality, but in my limited experience using Spotify I never saw it substituting a clearly wrong one
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zoedivision[m]
^ anecdotally I recall hearing many instances of Spotify swapping in a listener's personal local copy and occasionally mismatching tracks in such a way
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zoedivision[m]
MBians, I'm currently having to detangle what I think was a bad recording auto-merge; I myself actually disambiguated the live recording last year, but now I'm seeing all the studio cuts merged into that same live cut. Even tho it's redundant, is it a good idea in a situation like this to add a disambiguation for the studio cut as well, since there's been mistakes arising?
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rph[m]
If on a streaming service (apple music) there are 2 separate "single" releases for a song, one for the instrumental one for the regular version, should those be separate release groups on musicbrainz or one release group with 2 releases each one with a unique recording?
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elomatreb[m]
this is a bit of a contentions topic but IMO these should be two separate release groups
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elomatreb[m]
I think the general consensus is leaning towards that too, but there are editors who prefer to have one RG in cases like this
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rph[m]
the song i am adding already has a music video indexed, but no release group associated - i guess for the music video i should make a release and group it under the same release group as the song
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elomatreb[m]
music videos don't necessarily need a release
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elomatreb[m]
unfortunately in this area Musicbrainz guidelines have been left behind by the evolving music industry somewhat
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rph[m]
I guess the worst that can happen is if someone disagrees, they can comment on my edits/make the fixes
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rph[m]
I'll leave the MV alone and make separate RGs for instrumentals
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elomatreb[m]
yeah this is nothing that can't be fixed later if necessary, no matter which style you choose
