How to deal with downloaded music, where the original site doesn’t exists any more?
E.g.:
I have a download of Amy Macdonald’s album “A Curious Thing” from Amazon, from 2013.
It’s a 12 track version, like the original CD, but without the hidden track.
The ASIN of my purchase, B0038XB2R6, doesn’t exists any more. New downloads are e.g. for a 13 track edition.
If I’d like to add a proper release, there are some data missing to me (label, release events).
In this example it might be the same like the original physical release - but I don’t know.
For releases before downloads have been possible, this might be a bigger problem (e.g. a release of the 1980’s).
There is a 12-track-download release of this album, with release date in 2012 for Switzerland.
BTW: On cede.ch I don’t find this download release. I’m not sure if the date is correct.
Since I have my release from Amazon.de (for Austria) this download release might not be sufficient.
Should it be changed to other countries and other dates?
Without going into details: Add the release with all the information you know, with annotations and disambiguations to make it clear where the information and release was originally from. Don’t worry about what you don’t know as long as you’ve done your best to find it
I’ve tried some of the usual patterns without the SEO-friendly parts: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0038XB2R6 https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.amazon.de/dp/B0038XB2R6
Then Amazon redirected the Wayback Machine bot to the URL with SEO keywords.
Just for information:
I have the URL (www.am….de/gp/product/B0038XB2R6) from my order at Amazon․de (2013-04).
It’s from “Mein Konto” / “Meine Bestellungen” / year / order [Bestellung Übersicht] (in English translation: Your Account / Your Orders / year / order [Order Details]) of my Amazon account.
The URL is always in the form …/gp/product/ASIN, followed by additional ref=… (and other parameters)
Most of the ASIN-links for my old orders are still working, but some are not working anymore.