I have a 5-disc set of classical music entitled “The Baroque Experience” by The Academy of Ancient Music in my collection. I’ve had it for several years, and I ripped it a long time ago, so I’m a bit surprised to have only discovered this anomaly today.
I just discovered that tracks 10 and 11 on disc 5 are combined into a single track on my copy. The track list in the cover art/booklet doesn’t reflect this, listing 13 tracks, while any CD player I stick it into only shows 12. The actual track 10 length is about equal to the combined lengths of the listed tracks 10 + 11, so it isn’t a missing track.
I see by the release page that 5 others besides me have this release, including @rdswift. I think the right move is to add a new release to account for this, but I was hoping to confirm whether someone else with the release sees the same anomaly before doing so. Like MB, Discogs and AllMusic each only have a single version of this album. Discogs shows 13 tracks, while AllMusic shows the combined track, and 12 total.
ps - Hmm, clearly I did discover this before, because the tracks are split apart on my hard drive. I had to have done that manually, but I have no memory of it.
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I’ve seen a few examples of this. A famous one is Dark Side of the Moon which went from 9 to 10 tracks on CD when track 1 got split on a reissue. I also have CDs that went the other way and combined tracks on a later release.
It needs to be a separate MB Release due to the DiscIDs. Quick to do as you’re just cloning and only adjusting a couple of tracks.
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Definitely separate tracks on my copy. Sounds like yours should be a different release in the same release group.
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Agreed. Will do. I’ll explain the difference in the annotation.
One thing: All the cover art in the existing release was added by me, from my release. @rdswift if you feel like checking, I’d be curious to know if there’s any difference in the art. As I mentioned, the artwork doesn’t acknowledge the combined tracks, but who knows what else might be different?
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Okay, I’ll dig my physical copy out of storage (good thing I have a local database of which CDs are contained in each box) and have a look. If need be, I’ll scan and upload if my artwork is different.
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If you didn’t know already… look at the bottom of the artwork page. There is a link to “Internet Archive”. Click this and you go to CAA, now you can grab a zip to “download originals”
Big time saver when transferring art between releases.
Though I think CAA may have just taken a nap as I can’t reach it… 
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Thanks. I didn’t know that, but I have all the scans locally already anyway. And I made some edits to the CD scans for color accuracy.
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It is a really useful trick if you didn’t have your artwork on hand.
Can’t help but get geeky and look at your artwork. I see 1,3,4 are a different style of matrix to 2 and 5. So would not be surprised if there are DiscID differences on both of those. Look at the thickness of font used for MFG BY CINRAM
Yeah, I’ll be doing the disc IDs later today.
edit: Disc IDs are done. The first four have Disc IDs that match both releases. Disc 5 has a unique Disc ID, owing to the combined tracks.
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Since I had to dig out the discs anyway, I ended up scanning and uploading everything. Some are the same as what you uploaded, but there were some with differences (such as matrix/runout) and a few that were missing.
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