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May 30, 2019, 8:23am
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Thanks for sharing this interesting article !
Too bad MusicBrainz isn’t cited… If someone has Verge account, please point at MusicBrainz in comments or something, thanks !
Merging recordings usually requires a vote, and it is very possible different ISRCs match the same recording.
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I have an edit in which I am creating new recordings for a release so I can add the proper ISRCs to them. Because the recordings on this release are used on other releases and some have different ISRCs already assigned, I need new recordings to do this so I do not assign ISRCs to recordings used on other releases. These recordings are the 1996 remaster versions. Because the edit needs to pass vote, I have to wait a week before I can finish the edit, add the ISRCs to the recordings since …
I added quite a lot of ISRCs over the last weeks. Before adding them to a release, I usually check for existing ones. Personally I don’t like to add a different ISRC to an existing recording. So I am not happy about examples like this: http://musicbrainz.org/recording/10cfdacf-53c3-4662-b216-62046e318f6e
According to the Style guidelines, recordings with different mastering should not be separated. The guidelines for edits are less straightforward. Should we merge similar edits if they are onl…
I have a CD with ISRC numbers written on the disc - in the data. EAC reads this information and includes it in the CUE file that it creates. In this case of this specific song, Picard displays two ISRC numbers:
GBA077700010; NLF057790025
This appears to be because the MusicBrainz database contains two ISRC numbers for this song:
The first ISRC number, GBA077700010, does not appear to be a valid ISRC number if I search for it at the ISRC: https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search . (Edit note: Th…
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