Changing release

[chaban]

This has been asked a couple times:

How to add "Evolving"/"In progress" album

Hello, I have recently added “Demos Vol. II” by Lauren O’Connell to Musicbrainz (https://musicbrainz.org/release/b80e59c2-551f-494a-9315-b73b2ff91221). However, this album is updated from time to time with new sons. For example, I modified the release recently to include track 16, but in the meanwhile, a seventeenth track was added (see https://laurenoconnell.bandcamp.com/album/demos-vol-ii). Any advice on the best way to track these new songs? I guess always updating the existing entry is not …

How to handle "living" albums?

I’m working on an edit to a release, and I’m wondering if it should be a separate release in the same release group, or an update to the existing release. The album in question is Journeys by she (https://sheofficial.bandcamp.com/album/journeys). It is a digital-only album and occasionally the artist adds new tracks and re-arranges the order of existing tracks and updates the album art. I know of at least two instances of this album being updated, once last year (for which I added a new releas…

Updated releases

I am seeing more and more artists releasing albums song by song, i.e. updating a release with new songs every week or month. One example is from this edit: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/63080893 I think we need to have a discussion on how to enter these releases (I apologize if it’s been discussed already but I couldn’t find anything in the forum/documentation). Some people recommend adding a new release on every update, but IMHO I it doesn’t make much sense – especially since most of these rel…

Bandcamp info changing over time - New Release in group, or edit existing?

Hello, everyone. New editor here - I came to MusicBrainz when Plex started supporting integration with it, since my friend group runs a few media servers with it. As an archivist at heart, I want to briefly mention how much I appreciate the work and consideration that this community puts forth for our posterity, as well as the difficult categorical decisions you all tackle on a daily basis. Believe me, I feel for your struggles. Now, down to business - I’m aware that there are a few topics on h…

TL;DR
Usually a new release is added.

Sometimes I tag their RGs with updated release (note: not all of them have multiple releases yet)