# Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/metadata-is-the-biggest-little-problem-plaguing-the-music-industry/430027 **Category:** General chatter **Tags:** performancerightsorganisations, artist-credit, music-credits, musicindustry, metadata, works **Created:** [May 30, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/metadata-is-the-biggest-little-problem-plaguing-the-music-industry/430027 "2019-05-30T05:03:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/zas/32/28_2.png) [@Zas](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Zas) #### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 8:23am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/metadata-is-the-biggest-little-problem-plaguing-the-music-industry/430027/3 "2019-05-30T08:23:57Z")
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 ! > [@The\_King](#): > > seeing different ISRCs being merged everyday and remasters being merged with older masters. Merging recordings usually requires a vote, and it is very possible different ISRCs match the same recording. Definition of a remaster is rather fuzzy in music industry. You can read: > [@Different ISRC or masters (not) sharing the same recordings](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/different-isrc-or-masters-not-sharing-the-same-recordings/355522): > > Hello- 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 … > [@ISRC as unique identifier?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/isrc-as-unique-identifier/37367): > > 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](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… > [@Why does Picard display multiple ISRC numbers for a song?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/why-does-picard-display-multiple-isrc-numbers-for-a-song/379470): > > 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](https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search). (Edit note: Th… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/metadata-is-the-biggest-little-problem-plaguing-the-music-industry/430027)._