# Should I merge recordings with just a small length difference?

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**Category:** MusicBrainz\
**Created:** [April 30, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-i-merge-recordings-with-just-a-small-length-difference/583169 "2022-04-30T15:32:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-i-merge-recordings-with-just-a-small-length-difference/583169/12 "2022-05-01T05:38:14Z")

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> [@IvanDobsky](#):
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> It is easier to merge Various Artist collections like that as it is unlikely a band will record something different for a compilation.

I wanted to add that _sometimes_ they will do this, as @sound.and.vision showed in [another thread](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/long-format-videos-of-interest-to-the-mbz-nerd-community/578159/11). ideally, these should also be disambiguated though.

one other thing to look for is conflicting relationships on the recordings in question, say one is a live recording from say, 1989, and the other is a live recording from 1995. I’ve just recently [split a recording](https://musicbrainz.org/edit/89181977) for similar reasons.

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