# Fresh Releases and the MusicBrainz Database

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/fresh-releases-and-the-musicbrainz-database/619580
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** data-import, release, fresh-releases, digital-media
**Created:** [January 18, 2023, 6:06am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/fresh-releases-and-the-musicbrainz-database/619580 "2023-01-18T06:06:31Z")
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### Author: ![UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ultimateriff/32/47799_2.png) [@UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/UltimateRiff)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/fresh-releases-and-the-musicbrainz-database/619580/10 "2023-01-19T03:47:14Z")

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> [@IvanDobsky](#):
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> That sounds like you are asking permission for a bot to make a mess of the database with dups and not doing searches? This is a prime reason why I say “bot bad, human good” To me this modern “AI” is “Automated Incompetence”. A bot needs to know how to make a search first to check for a potential dup. 🤖 😆

that’s fair, lol… there could probably be a basic search for matching releases, but I don’t know how available stuff like UPCs and catalog numbers are for unreleased music, so we might not be able to tell if it’s the same version… it would theoretically be possible to not make new release groups if one already exists though, provided the artist hasn’t done any shenanigans with their release titling (looking at you, [Weezer](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6fe07aa5-fec0-4eca-a456-f29bff451b04) and especially [Brouillard](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e217c961-ecb0-4f27-9ab7-51a031b8201b)) 😉

> [@aerozol](#):
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> I can see why this is asked for - you and I may be happy noodling about with older releases, but there’s an immense amount of new releases coming out that MB doesn’t have, and probably never will, which is makes the service unappealing to a different set of users.

this is exactly the reason, yes. it’s understandably difficult to find how many releases come out every week, but I’m sure there’s at least a thousand, certainly many more than the roughly 200\* we’re getting already. having this data on new releases could give some people a reason to use MusicBrainz who wouldn’t otherwise

\*based on yesterday’s releases multiplied by 7, lol

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I will note again, the whole conditional auto-edit thing is entirely optional, I was just addressing some editors concerns [from the previous thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-new-music-into-musicbrainz/550240/19)

the core of my idea is how to denote such imported releases and integrate them into the database

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