# About localized URL relationships

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/about-localized-url-relationships/745731>\
**Category:** MusicBrainz\
**Tags:** en, url-relationships, digital-media\
**Created:** [February 24, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/about-localized-url-relationships/745731 "2025-02-24T19:10:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![afrocat](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/afrocat/32/64972_2.png) [@afrocat](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/afrocat)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/about-localized-url-relationships/745731/29 "2026-07-24T14:36:27Z")

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A few days ago I published a userscript - [A new MusicBrainz user script was released - #239 by afrocat](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/a-new-musicbrainz-user-script-was-released/77897/239)  
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](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-10623) and [MBS-6314](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-6314)

I’ve seen different editors do different things with iTunes links, some people mark them as [ended](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/107125340), I’ve seen people [remove the localization](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/66712860) from the link, and also [add localization](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/149831403) to it. I’ve also seen people [change them to Apple Music](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/150022040) links.  
Of course some people try to [remove them](https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/120564770) 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.

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