# How to enter expanding releases?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-enter-expanding-releases/623732
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** digital-media
**Created:** [February 14, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-enter-expanding-releases/623732 "2023-02-14T06:59:12Z")
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#### Post date: [February 14, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-enter-expanding-releases/623732/3 "2023-02-14T15:51:12Z")

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I hadn’t seen this done before. I hope that the practice doesn’t catch on. 🙂

If you purchased the album in July 2009 and downloaded the four tracks that were available then, and then later downloaded track 5 after it was released in August, are your copies of the first four tracks now part of the five-track release instead? That’s pretty strange from a tagging perspective.

With physical media, it seems like it usually takes far more effort to actually create and distribute a new release than it does to add it to MB.

With digital (online) media, “releasing” something can be easier than adding it to MB.

(Algorithmically-generated content seems like it’s going to push things much further in this direction, but discussion of that that probably belongs in the [“Implications of AI generated content” thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/implications-of-ai-generated-content/622839)).

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