Phish Bootlegs and Live Shows - Timeframe for Edits

Hello,

I am a big collector of jam band music, Grateful Dead and Phish in particular and I do my best to contribute to MusicBrainz because it is my primary source of metadata.

It has become a bit annoying having to wait 7 days for my edits to be applied. For example, if Phish performed a show last night and releases the recording on LivePhish.com I will add it to MusicBrainz. However, it will take 7 days until that metadata is available to Lidarr or Beets for me to be able to import the music.

I have considered running a local database where my edits are immediate, but I would rather be able to contribute to the community as well.

Is there a way I can have the “best of both worlds” (without becoming an auto editor) where I can have my Phish metadata edits available to me more quickly from a local database while also contributing those changes to the main database?

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When you add a release, it’s immediately available.

Indexed search takes some time to know new entities but you can use direct search, instead.

I don’t know Lidarr and Beets but try to find if you can personalise the search URL to use type=direct instead of indexed or advanced.

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A newly added release should be available straight away. You then have a 24 hour window to make updates to that release that will also instantly be accepted.

As long as you get it all sorted in that 24 hour window a new release is instantly online and available to all.

It always impresses me how quick things work with EAC. I can add a new release with a new DiscID via Picard, and almost instantly EAC can find those changes.

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