How to (and should I) enter Glastonbury broadcasts

This weekend should be Glastonbury 2020… cancelled due to Covid; however the BBC are “broadcasting” a number of sets from previous years’ festivals via iPlayer and Radio. In most cases these are a single broadcast of the whole set.

Can these be entered into Musicbrainz? If so: should I create an album for each broadcast with a single track (with suitable links to works where known).

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You can add them as releases with the primary release group type “Broadcast” and the secondary type “Live.”
Don’t forget to link to wherever they are available; if it’s only for a limited time, be sure to say so in the annotation.

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Or even better, adding the start and end date in the relation :wink:

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im being dense, how do you add an end time to a link?

(BBC web links are a bit of a sepecial xase perhaps as while when you look at a link the actual broadcast may not currectly be available, its often the case that a month ormeven year later it will be; afaik they never resueadresss so the linkmit still relevant)

You click the [info] hyperlink of the link to go to the URL entity page, then you click Edit.
Then in this URL entity editor page, you click the :pencil2: pencil icon to set Begin date, End date and/or Ended, in the popup.
Then Done, Enter edit.

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Thanks for the info.

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