Recording with incredibly long title

[planck-length]

I was curious about the longest titled recording, and I found this:

"Hey, out there!" I hope nobody was! / Two more takes of the same.....but not much better. / "Ve're not in da mood, Herbert!" Neither are we. / Ol' Doc McCoy messes one up. Note support from Shatner. / "That's wrong.....I won't allow it!" says McCoy...but he means the take. / A good take. But listen to what's coming. / Someone is smoking on the set and ruins a take. / Can you imagine being delirious on cue. This actress was. / "Son-of-a-gun!" says Dee as he flubs a line. / Flub, flub, flub, flub. Guess it just wasn't his day. / Next take.....worse. Note help from Shatner. / More.....and more.....and more. Note patience of director. / "You want me to do it again?" Please, no. / Three more tries. Oh, well. / ".....under my superstition....." / Ahh, the patient director. / Shatner is too fast on the uptake. / This time it's another line. Five takes and she says she's "cracking up". / Amazing! A good take.....until someone makes a false move. / Another line. Three tries later.....Note what director says. / More of the same. / A simple take. Listen to order after take, moving another bed in for a shot from a different angle. / Even the scene cue is flubbed.....but workmen in the back make too much noise anyway / "You are insane," says Doc Coleman. If we're not yet, we soon will be! / The Assistant Director reads Kirk's line to time Dr. Lester's moves. / "Would a visits by that very kind Dr. Spock....." Doctor Spock? / Nurse Chapel gets caught in the door. She had a thing with doors. / Kirk: ".........a general courtmartial......." Spock: "I want a transfer." / Mr. Spock messes up his line. / The Great Scott/McCoy Debate. They're fine until Nurse Chapel..... / Nurse Chapel again. At least she can laugh about it! / Some quick pick-up lines. "Say goodbye to Majel," says the Director and everybody does. It was her last time on the set and one of the last scenes shot in the series.

It looks like someone mistakingly joined up all the A-side track listings into one track listing (same for B side).

Is there any easy way to fix this?

[mfmeulenbelt]

I would just make new recordings and recycle this recording as one of them, probably the first. It always pays to look at the edit history to see why it is entered this way. In this case, the original editor thought it should have been one track because vinyl doesn’t really “do” tracks (there may be a short pause between tracks but it is one groove of course). But I think that’s nonsense and the cover art does make a distinction, so it should be 32 tracks not 1.

[Freso]

@mfmeulenbelt

I would just make new recordings and recycle this recording as one of them

I used to do this for some things (like “Work 1 / Work 2” Works that have been autocreated from the old system and “Artist 1 & Artist 2” from before Artist Credits), but I’ve come to see that this is not a good approach, as the current MBID represents both, say, “Work 1” and “Work 2”, and making it represent just one of these will be wrong in systems that may have the old MBID. (What we need is a way to return that the one old MBID now corresponds to one of multiple (2 or more) MBIDs.)

In that same vein, this Recording should probably just be deleted, since it doesn’t represent any single one of those Recordings that will be created once the Release’s track list has been split.

[mfmeulenbelt]

The advantage of keeping one recording is that people who follow the old link will at least be able to find the correct release pretty easily. Though of course that’s only useful for people doing manual lookups, it will probably be quite useless for automated systems.

It would be better if the MBID would refer to all new works as you say, but that’s not possible yet.