Presence or absence of mould SID enough to have separate releases?

[Kid_Devine]

@spitzwegerich

But I recognize that there is some interest in the differentiation of those minor production details. I think the best way would be to introduce a sub-release entity “production variant” (or whatever) for keeping track of those. The discogs link could then be set on release- or on variant-level, depending on the data state on the discogs side.

Coincidentally, release “variants” were discussed at the most recent meeting.

@Freso

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zas:

In Digital releases we discussed about handling of digital formats

the current policy on MusicBrainz is we don’t care actual digital format, we manage “digital media” support releases

during this discussion, i had the feeling we were missing a tool to manage this

So i had the idea of release “variants”

Basically that’s a release based on the data on another release.

It would fit things like: colored vinyl releases, digital formats releases otherwise identical (mp3 vs flac vs ogg …)

A fair amount of discussion ensued; comparing “variants” to alternative tracklists, some questions about current practices, some discussion about when a new entry would be a Release vs. a “Variant” of another Release.

Ultimately, too many unanswered questions and concerns, so @zas agreed to try and make a more “formal”/in-depth specification of it or similar and post that on the forums in its own topic for further discussion before bringing it back up at the meeting.