#musicbrainz

Are there any rules against using something like oxipng to compress covert art png?

no, but it's pointless, the internet/coverart archive does its own processing

so it undoes anything you may do, whether its better or worse

at least iirc

Lynne: thanks for letting me know.

if each track in a release has unique cover art, does one add it to the release instead? i.e. in the case of [tohomoko - the aerodynamics of an album](https://musicbrainz.org/release/9cf94d4e-dd98-4314-b387-20510ff2e20a) each track has cute unique covers visible only in the [soundcloud release](https://soundcloud.com/tohomoko/sets/the-aerodynamics-of-an-album-1)

here, example for track 01:

quick question, is the site down for anyone else too?

<stgrunu[m]> "quick question, is the site down..." <- it been up for me this whole time.

<Lynne> "no, but it's pointless, the..." <- I just upload the oxipng version and I re-downloaded the original and compared the sha256 sums and they are no different.

cool, I guess I misremembered

would you happen to know if i have to delete the other front cover art someone else submitted?

If these are covers sourced from official sources or streaming services I would just upload the original with no changes. For something like your own scans format would be up to you. People downloading can do any re-compressing or other changes they deem necessary for their own files.

cpli: yes you can add each track's artwork to the album, and select the track checkmark

the enhanced cover art uploads script does this automatically, and adds a comment indicating which track it's for

cool covers lol, i'll have to check this out

I only delete covers if 1. the original is super small and is in bad quality or 2. it's wrong release

* bad quality and I have a better copy or 2.

site is super slow for me rn

dudenugget2000[m: it's been like that on and off recently, seems a little better now

yes, very slow for me too. some clicks are fast, but most take 10 seconds or more, sometimes up to 30s :/

https://musicbrainz.org/release/c1eb3632-288f-4... i wonder why this was added as 3xCD when it is a 5xCD release. seems deliberate but the edit history is not informative...

(i'm inclined to add the missing media, i just wonder if i'm missing something myself :-)

ivy: in the release group there are 3 different CD releases, all with different number of media and tracks, and all with different barcodes. Perhaps there are really different releases of this CD? Do you have a copy in hand with 5 CDs?

Vacuity: i do not have a physical copy in hand, but since this release lists 5 cat#, i think it is the 5xCD release (Out of Line usually do one cat# per CD)

ivy: ah, I see, the OUT 830 to OUT 849... but then, without access to the physical release, or another trustworthy source I would not add anything to this release

ivy: check https://www.amazon.de/Leitbild-Limitierte-Box-B...

ivy: it could be the two "missing" CDs are the Chris Pohl "Lebe Deinen Traum" audio book.

yes, precisely so. that's why i thought it might be deliberate, they are sort of separate from the rest

which are listed on the discogs release linked from the mb release, fwiw: https://www.discogs.com/release/9856116-Bluteng...

I'm not deep enough into the specifics of MB yet to give valid advice on this situation. I could imagine it would be OK to add the 2 audiobook CDs as media, if the necessary information is available form a trustworthy source (and ideally with DiscIds)

otoh it could also be sufficient to add an annotation to this release regarding the two audio books CDs

perhaps i will add them as a votable edit

Discogs in the "barcode and other identifiers" secions has the matrix and catalog numbers of each CD, so it should be possible to add this information to MB without access to the physical discs. all that is missing then would be the DiscIds