Hi! I am adding a cassette to MusicBrainz with quite odd declaration of artists. It is a children's songs production by a German label, and does not carry an official artist name. But each single track has listed the same names as artists, which is jsut a list of names of the children singing the songs. Should I create a new artist with the comma-separated names, or leave the artist blank / use "Various Artist" and use the
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Nik|Klampfradle4
artist credits field to list the separate names?
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Nik|Klampfradle4
I think I got it figured out.
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Nik|Klampfradle4
But: The booklet does not list track lengths. Can I also add track lengths determined myself (like,using a stop watch) ;)?
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Nik|Klampfradle4
s/)//
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aerozol[m]
Definitely, re. timing the tracks yourself!
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aerozol[m]
Not sure how you added the artists, but fyi we never add multiple artists as one, unless they are a group/band with that name (e.g. Simon, Nik, Bob and Ross would be added as four different artists)
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Nik|Klampfradle4
<aerozol[m]> "Not sure how you added the..." <- I created each listed artist to MusicBrainz, then added those as a collaboration with the exact delimiters as printed on the release I have
Great work! I was also going to say that since it's children, the fact that it probably wont have their whole name makes artist entities a bit tricky. But that looks good
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aerozol[m]
If someone with more experience with children's music makes edits don't be offended though, because I can imagine a few ways to do it and I'm not sure what consensus is
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aerozol[m]
We also usually don't follow the typography that closely, and standardise a bit (e.g. I would probably have done Astrid, Jan, Martina, Sebastian & Tatjana, sowie Sabine Bohlmann & Jutta Neumann). Title I would probably do as: Kunterbunte Kinderlieder 9: Das Kau-Gummi-Krokodil
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aerozol[m]
But no big deal :)
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Nik|Klampfradle4
That would have been wrong, as "Kunterbunte Kinderlieder" is not the name of the series
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Nik|Klampfradle4
The parts are numbered, but this is the only one named "Kunterbunte Kinderlieder"
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Nik|Klampfradle4
It's a really strange release đ
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aerozol[m]
Then it's likely that 9 shouldn't be in the title? It sounds like
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Nik|Klampfradle4
Probably
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aerozol[m]
Cool release btw!
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Nik|Klampfradle4
Story behind this: I found a part of this cassette as a copy at the end of the B side of a mix tape from my mother, and it captivated me because I knew one song from it from my childhood. Took me weeks to dig up the original release from the internet, and get hold of an original cassette
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aerozol[m]
I have a box of children's cassettes (music and audiobooks, some German) at my parent's, some day I will add them!!
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aerozol[m]
The nostalgia of childhood audio really hits
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Nik|Klampfradle4
Yep, sometimes
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Nik|Klampfradle4
Currently, I am waiting for a line-level USB audio grabber to arrive so I can hook up my cassette deck to my laptop and digitise the tape for my Jellyfin đ
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Nik|Klampfradle4
Too bad that modern laptops only have microphone jacks that don't respond to line level âšī¸
