Is there an easy way to take one of the already entered 'digital media' releases, and use the same track list / recordings but split the media across physical CDs?
2023-11-06 31037, 2023
adhawkins
For example, the first 'album' is shown as 'Digital Media 1' containing 14 tracks, that needs to be split across 2 CDs, each containing 7 tracks.
2023-11-06 31016, 2023
reosarevok
adhawkins: depends on your definition of easy :p
2023-11-06 31027, 2023
reosarevok
Reuse the same tracklist twice, remove the extra tracks
2023-11-06 31040, 2023
reosarevok
That should keep the recording associations
2023-11-06 31059, 2023
adhawkins
That sounds doable. So when you add a new medium to a release, it'll allow me to base it on an existing medium?
I've gone with 'Mercury Records'. The other releases use 'Universal Music Catalogue'
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reosarevok
Don't ask me about imprints D:
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adhawkins
Heh, fair enough. Anyone else got an opinion? :D
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atj
adhawkins: Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Music Recordings
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atj
but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ApeKattQuest
just add some label. sone or later one of the label-obsessives will come around, yell at you, and fix it
2023-11-06 31035, 2023
ApeKattQuest
or just fix it
2023-11-06 31019, 2023
ApeKattQuest
(this reply, tongue in mouth not serious)
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adhawkins
Thanks ApeKattQuest: That's the conclusion I'd pretty much come to myself ;)
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tarulia
I have a question regarding capitalisation of Artist names, specifically this: https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d313ecf6-9256-41cd… on his official website, the album covers, the Anjunabeats website, Genius.com, probably more... list him as ilan Bluestone (note the lower-case i). So, I was about to change this on the Artist page, however I can't find any documentation regarding capitalisation of artist names.
2023-11-06 31016, 2023
tarulia
The help text refers to the capitalisation guidelines, however those don't mention artists at all, and the Style/Artist doc doesn't mention capitalisation, soooo I'm in a pickle...
Funny though because 7digital capitalises the i while Pretzel Rocks has it in lowercase, and both are Songtradr companies D:
2023-11-06 31048, 2023
atj
tarulia: yes, definitely looks like artist intent. Data quality on streaming and download sites is generally pretty awful, particularly in areas like this. I generally consider sites like Bandcamp, Instagram, Soundcloud etc. as more likely to reflect artist intent.
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atj
tarulia: BTW, I'd probably merge the ilan Bluestone and Bluestone artist. Looks like an name variation to me.
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tarulia
mh not entirely sure about that. From what I understand it's considered separate artists because they have different styles of music
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tarulia
I'll do the rename for now and then I can think about the merge :D
2023-11-06 31040, 2023
tarulia
thanks for the input :)
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atj
tarulia: the justification needed for creating a separate artist in the style guidelines is "In some cases, a person (or, more rarely, a group) can perform under multiple names that they actually consider different projects"
2023-11-06 31010, 2023
atj
so if you think it falls within that, fair enough
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tarulia
yeah the "different project" part is the key point I think, i.e. different genres = different projects
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atj
2 releases in 2012 doesn't reallt seem enough to be a separate project
2023-11-06 31002, 2023
reosarevok
I'd say even one release is enough if that's the only time they did a separate genre and they seem to have changed the name intentionally for that reason
would that also require a second release in the release group then?
2023-11-06 31016, 2023
atj
potentially, problem is you can't tell when it changed
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tarulia
yea
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atj
the two artists should definitely be merged though, don't think there can be any argument it was a separate project
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tarulia
I'll take the beatport entry with a mountain of salt though, I'm assuming they just group everything because the name on the cover doesn't even match what they list as the artist
