# Adding a large number of bootleg Spotify singles **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-a-large-number-of-bootleg-spotify-singles/475268 **Category:** MusicBrainz **Tags:** automation **Created:** [May 3, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-a-large-number-of-bootleg-spotify-singles/475268 "2020-05-03T09:17:09Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### Author: ![aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/aerozol/32/116_2.png) [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol) #### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-a-large-number-of-bootleg-spotify-singles/475268/5 "2020-05-04T10:05:55Z")
I find the world of video game bootlegs fascinating, and love editing that kind of stuff on MB. Video game music is in a very difficult space right now, but I am hoping it is a space of transition, and I don’t think cataloguing bootlegs is a bad thing, particularly when you can use it to lead people to a release group with an official release. Anyway, that wasn’t that helpful haha - I think at the end of the day there will be some manual work. There might be a script that can help? I wonder if this still works: > [@Spotify2MusicBrainz.py (pre-?)alpha testing release](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/spotify2musicbrainz-py-pre-alpha-testing-release/250504): > > Hello! I mentioned some time ago that I was working on a couple of scripts to help feed data into MusicBrainz. The first of these is actually usable now: Once you’ve downloaded it and installed its dependency, you can call it using ./spotify2musicbrainz.py spotify:album:0QScw4gpLu1w9au1Mcf3FL (replacing the Spotify URI at the end with the one for the album you want to add). It’s still in very early development, but hey, “release early, release often”. This is at least the “release early” par… Unless there’s a good reason to merge the recordings (eg track times are the same across the whole official release vs the singles) I would lean towards not merging them, especially gem older games where there are often a lot of different rips floating around. P.s. I found this quite interesting recently: > **[Game composers and YouTubers are in a murky battle for copyright control](https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/game-composers-and-youtubers-are-in-a-murky-battle-for-copyright-control)** > > Game composers are running foul of the different rules YouTube has for video game music - and their work is getting sto… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/adding-a-large-number-of-bootleg-spotify-singles/475268)._