It seems Apple Music is now changing album release (prerelease) artwork when new singles arrive to the tracklist. Maybe this deserves a bigger discussion, maybe we just agree they should remain on the same release, or maybe we remove them as the “release” hasn’t been released (which could technically disqualify it, in the same vein as promo images/posts).
Are these kind of releases allowed on musicbrainz? https://musicbrainz.org/edit/109683098 https://musicbrainz.org/edit/109683099
They’ve been all added by the same, now inactive, editor who seem to have added their whole movie library despite having it no music content or discographic relevance; I attempt to remove when I step on them with the positive feedback from users like @chaban, but it happens to get sometimes an opposite vote citing the loss of information, while I think these shouldn’t have been added at all from the start, so I’m asking from other opinions following @reosarevok request. Thanks.
Comedy is a very audio-centric genre. As such, given that we’d certainly accept these if they were just an audio CD (there’s a fair amount of comedy audio CDs in the database), does it make sense to not allow them if they include video?
@aerozol linked a thread that seems relevant and further discussion should probably happen there (rather than voting one way or another without discussion):
In general, if there’s any reason to think something might have value to MusicBrainz, please do not remove it - we’re not Wikipedia.
I’ve said that the first one is OK to stay as it falls under the “is generally a comedy performance which we’re ok with” category, the other one can go though as I think it’s just a junk release thats more suited to a possible film database than a music-centric one.
OK all, following the back and forth on these problem fringe releases, there’s now an edit that I’ve put through to begin removing the non-music content from that release:
Follow up to my last request: the merge went through but the artist edit failed, which left tracks with a different artist from the release/release group. Based on comments at the time I’ve entered these edits to correct that:
I pasted the wrong VIAF URL (belonging to the person’s brother, same surname) into a script box and didn’t realise it also populated the above four entries’ fields. Lesson learned: pay attention to all the highlighted bits!
If anyone would be so kind as to take action, I’d be most grateful. Thanks!
Could I get an approval for https://musicbrainz.org/edit/109925630 , medium was missing track#1 and I could not apply the discid. Thanks!
That was quick, thanks for fixing my self inflicted mistake.
Could I get this pushed through please? I’ve been waiting a week to merge these releases, but I can’t because this edited failed due to a parallel edit: Edit #110083785 - MusicBrainz
This release has a track with the same ISRC as a previous version but the intro for it is extended so it’s not the same recording (compare the lengths in original recording page)
It’s a weird mess, but seems clear to me that the track titles (and possibly disc order) are in error. I’ve asked the original editor to provide some sources.
The release groups of the following two will need to be combined:
But before then, the changes have to go through so that the merge doesn’t encounter any problems (scans are uploaded to show what the changes were based on for each).
