# Good reasons you've given for Merging Recordings : A Collection **URL:** \ **Category:** MusicBrainz\ **Tags:** recording, editnotes, merging\ **Created:** [August 27, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066 "2019-08-27T10:05:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mmirG](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/mmirg/32/1327_2.png) [@mmirG](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mmirG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:05am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/1 "2019-08-27T10:05:55Z")
Added a scintilating reason for Merging a Recording in an Edit Note? Add it here and let others appreciate the elegance. ---
**Author:** ![HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HibiscusKazeneko](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/HibiscusKazeneko)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/2 "2019-08-27T10:56:00Z")
Here are the easiest ones I can think of: - Two or more recordings sharing an AcoustID (or several) - Two or more recordings sharing an ISRC ---
**Author:** ![jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jesus2099/32/36_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:24pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/3 "2019-08-27T14:24:04Z")
Various same year editions of the same album. Various editions of the same album with no reasons to suspect clean version, remix, new recording or whatnot. ---
**Author:** ![highstrung](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/highstrung/32/15259_2.png) [@highstrung](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/highstrung)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/4 "2019-08-28T00:27:14Z")
Same per compilation liner notes (e.g. when the compilation says “From the album…”) Citation of curated discographies either online (such as [http://www.hankwilliamsdiscography.com](http://www.hankwilliamsdiscography.com/) ) or in printed form ( e.g. The Music of Bill Monroe by Ivan Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe). ---
**Author:** ![Skeebadoo](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Skeebadoo](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Skeebadoo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 7:47am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/5 "2019-08-28T07:47:56Z")
“I have both tracks” Edit: jokes aside, I could append links to spectrograms, not a big deal, but what is realistically the best retention time on image hosting sites? A few months? A year tops? That would only produce proofs with expiration date. ---
**Author:** ![jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/jesus2099/32/36_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 8:49am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/6 "2019-08-28T08:49:48Z")
> I have ear checked all tracks for these 2 recordings. I do this too. 🙂 And even when I have ripped both, I have several times listened to two recordings simultaneously in Audacity to clear out some doubts. ---
**Author:** ![Hawke](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/hawke/32/139_2.png) [@Hawke](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Hawke)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/7 "2019-08-29T16:19:37Z")
My very frequent recording merge note: “Similar duration, same/sole AcoustID” (I try to avoid merging when there are a lot of AcoustIDs involved because it’s hard to be sure which release had which AcoustID. Occasionally I also add something noting that there may be an additional AcoustID which seems to be a one-off with no other data connected to it. ---
**Author:** ![Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/freso/32/25_2.png) [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/good-reasons-youve-given-for-merging-recordings-a-collection/441066/8 "2019-09-09T09:16:26Z")
Whoops. I meant to reply to this a while back, but guess I never got around to it. Just saw it in my forum bookmarks again just now. Anyway: I’d like to think most of my edit notes are fairly decent: [https://musicbrainz.org/search/edits?auto\_edit\_filter=&order=desc&negation=0&combinator=and&conditions.0.field=editor&conditions.0.operator=%3D&conditions.0.name=Freso&conditions.0.args.0=229784&conditions.1.field=type&conditions.1.operator=%3D&conditions.1.args=74](https://musicbrainz.org/search/edits?auto_edit_filter=&order=desc&negation=0&combinator=and&conditions.0.field=editor&conditions.0.operator=%3D&conditions.0.name=Freso&conditions.0.args.0=229784&conditions.1.field=type&conditions.1.operator=%3D&conditions.1.args=74) > [@Skeebadoo](#): > > what is realistically the best retention time on image hosting sites? Whenever I post something on an image host or a pastebin, I try to immediately also archive it in the Internet Archive. I feel like this should provide a pretty good retention time. (Also, images I’ve uploaded to Imgur (non‐anonymously) a couple of years ago are still available, so depending on your image host, several years doesn’t seem unreasonable for this, even without additional archiving…)