There’s a recording, that is used for 2 separate versions of a track (one with a featured artist, one without). Both distinctly different recordings. It seems they were globbed together at some point, and I’m not sure how to separate them properly (and without mess) now.
https://musicbrainz.org/recording/c362ddbb-fc98-413b-b2d4-985099c2e497
From the release, you can see track #5 has no featured artist, track #13 does have a featured artist. Both use the same recording erroneously.
https://musicbrainz.org/release/5e82cd92-11c8-47bb-a793-f12273eed7f9
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Could you listen to the linked preview clip to make sure it’s not just uncredited?
I don’t know how Christina Aguilera sounds like.
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Oh sorry, hearing these previews, I see she sings on track 12.
So indeed this recording should be split.
We first have to check edit history to see if it was created for the duet version and was later hijacked by the solo version. Or the opposite.
Apparently the recording was created for solo version but then multiple recording merges occured.
See:
@nedotepa , see how “same length” is the typical bad reason for merge: How is "compilations" a reason to merge?
@Van_de_Bugger , there is unfotrunately no undo/revert.
It’s a tedious manual redo with loss of history.
You have to create a new standalone recording for the most recent added track.
After the creation of this track, badly merged recording should relate to the oldest added track.
You have to add data to it (AcoustID, ISRC, relationships) that you can confirm they sho…
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Was just about to get to this, and saw @tigerman325 already did all the work. Thanks tiger!
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