How to revert recording merge?

[jesus2099]

@nedotepa, see how “same length” is the typical bad reason for merge: How is "compilations" a reason to merge?

@Van_de_Bugger, there is unfotrunately no undo/revert.
It’s a tedious manual redo with loss of history.
You have to create a new standalone recording for the most recent added track.
After the creation of this track, badly merged recording should relate to the oldest added track.
You have to add data to it (AcoustID, ISRC, relationships) that you can confirm they should be there.
You have to remove everything from badly merged recording (AcoustID, ISRC, relationships) except those that you can confirm they should be there.

Undoing a recording merge

In these cases we should look at what was the release this oldest recording was added for: It was added for In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain, Vol. 3. Then deduce which releases (the releases that contain a different recording than In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain, Vol. 3) should be edited to point to a new recording or to another existing recording. You can create the standalone recording instead of letting release editor do it. This way you can further edit the new recording without wai…