Digital releases: Merging? / Long country list? / Just [Worldwide]?

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I share your distaste of the long “near worldwide” country lists. But Picard offers a couple of options to deal with it, see the documentation:

http://picard-docs.musicbrainz.org/en/tutorials/multiple_release_countries.html

Some background is also in

Handling of multiple release countries with Picard 2.3.1

Recently there has been quite some debate about some digital releases with a really long list of release countries added. Independent on your stand on this matter, this has shown that there are some issues with how these releases are handled by Picard. Hence the current Picard 2.3.1 release attempts to make some improvements. Let’s take the following release as an example. By default Picard will write a single releasecountry tag to the files. So far Picard has been populating the tag with wh…