tarulia: be careful with the Bandcamp dates, the artist can list whatever they want there. I usually refer to the automatic community post that gets made when a new release is published to get the "real" release date; there's also a userscript that can get the date.
2025-09-21 26455, 2025
tarulia[m]1
yeah I'm not relying on anything right now, just trying to find more sources :'D
2025-09-21 26444, 2025
notthejohn[m]
all good, just making sure you're aware cuz it took me a while to figure that one out, haha
2025-09-21 26452, 2025
tarulia[m]1
where are those community posts? I dont see a link on the page
2025-09-21 26448, 2025
notthejohn[m]
oh interesting, i guess that particular page hides the community section
2025-09-21 26425, 2025
tarulia[m]1
oh there I see it on another
2025-09-21 26457, 2025
tarulia[m]1
but couldn't that community post have been drafted ahead of the release already? 🤔
2025-09-21 26423, 2025
tarulia[m]1
not that it's relevant here, just in general
2025-09-21 26408, 2025
notthejohn[m]
i believe the "new release" posts i'm thinking of are autogenerated by bandcamp when the artist posts something
2025-09-21 26430, 2025
tarulia[m]1
mh guess that would make sense
2025-09-21 26438, 2025
notthejohn[m]
here's an example: https://utsup.bandcamp.com/community?sid=12816982 this post has a date reflecting when the album was actually uploaded to bandcamp (in 2020) as opposed to the 2009 release date on the album's page
the artist manually set the release date as it appears on bandcamp to 2009, when the album originally released on CD, but the bandcamp release specifically was uploaded in 2020 so that would technically be the release date for that version on MB
2025-09-21 26429, 2025
tarulia[m]1
yea
2025-09-21 26435, 2025
tarulia[m]1
so yeah IDK what to do about Child of Light, it's possible the digital release came out 2 weeks after the CD but only Spotify and Qobuz seem to list it as such.. IDK what Tidals/Amazons/Deezers convention is with these
2025-09-21 26451, 2025
tarulia[m]1
Could be they all 3 list the original release of the album not the digital release date
2025-09-21 26402, 2025
tarulia[m]1
(well deezer is wrong in this case anyway but you get the point)
2025-09-21 26430, 2025
tarulia[m]1
then again Spotify isn't known for accurate metadata either ðŸ«
2025-09-21 26437, 2025
tarulia[m]1
The first entry on archive.org is october 2014, so not helpful either. But fun fact, they seem to have changed the cover art:
i would say if they're otherwise the same, use the earliest date, or if you want to play it safe just put 2014 with no month or day and notate the conundrum with the different release dates
2025-09-21 26431, 2025
tarulia[m]1
mh also interesting... in this second version of the page, it's actually under Dare to Care records:
