A few days ago I published a userscript - A new MusicBrainz user script was released - #239 by afrocat
It edits Apple artist links to match the artist’s area, so for example an artist from the US that has a link like https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/... will be edited to https://music.apple.com/us/artist/...
I wanted to revive this thread to ask specifically about iTunes links
Currently, the script edits artist’s iTunes links the exact same way it does Apple Music links, except in cases where the iTunes link has no localization, eg. https://itunes.apple.com/artist/id..., the script does nothing with these.
What’s the community consensus about these links? by default, the MB interface shows them as “iTunes US”, see MBS-10623 and MBS-6314
I’ve seen different editors do different things with iTunes links, some people mark them as ended, I’ve seen people remove the localization from the link, and also add localization to it. I’ve also seen people change them to Apple Music links.
Of course some people try to remove them as well, though this is likely the wrong thing to do.
Is there a consensus about what to do with them? I could set up my script to do any of these things, or just leave them be I suppose.