# A multi‐source seeder for digital releases

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/a-multi-source-seeder-for-digital-releases/444000
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** tools, data-import, digital-media, atisket, seeding
**Created:** [September 18, 2019, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/a-multi-source-seeder-for-digital-releases/444000 "2019-09-18T21:31:56Z")
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### Author: ![kellnerd](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/kellnerd/32/66963_2.png) [@kellnerd](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/kellnerd)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2022, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/a-multi-source-seeder-for-digital-releases/444000/532 "2022-05-27T12:47:22Z")

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It’s related to the (weird) recent iTunes API change which now returns related releases which might have a different barcode than the requested one:

> [@Feedback and support thread for the Pulsewidth a-tisket instance](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/feedback-and-support-thread-for-the-pulsewidth-a-tisket-instance/578459/30):
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> The iTunes UPC lookup API recently changed to also return related releases with a different barcode than the one the user provided. It’s very weird.

Your first search does the country lookups by UPC (for which the iTunes API also returns a result for the CN/JP/KR release with a different UPC) while the second search does lookups by Apple ID (which only returns the exact match which of course is not available in CN/JP/KR).

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