So it sounds like your question is, if there is an existing entry in MusicBrainz, and I make an edit to improve that entry, but the edit has to wait some days for voting to close, what happens to a Picard user who tries to tag using that entry? Will they get the existing entry, or the entry with my edit which is waiting for votes to close?
The answer is, they will get the existing entry. Your edits are not part of the MusicBrainz database until voting closes.
So, if the person tagging MP3 files wants the result of the edit, they have a few choices:
- wait for voting to close on edits which are important, and for the edits to get accepted, before doing the tagging.
- do the tagging immediately, with imperfect metadata; be sure that Picard writes the MBID for the Release to each music file; then after voting closes, open the music files again in Picard and redo the tagging. This will be fast and reliable, because the MBID in the music file tells Picard exactly which Release entry to consult.
- Make a post in the forum’s Requests For Votes thread, asking for other editors to vote on your edit, or for an autoeditor to apply it immediately.
This same advice applies whether you are correcting the text of a Release title, or replacing imperfect cover art with better cover art, or changing a Relationship.
Does that answer your question?