# Understanding Disc IDs

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/understanding-disc-ids/573790
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** release, ngs, discid, musicbrainz
**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 10:04pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/understanding-disc-ids/573790 "2022-02-22T22:04:58Z")
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### Author: ![biocv](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/biocv/32/25412_2.png) [@biocv](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/biocv)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2022, 10:24am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/understanding-disc-ids/573790/19 "2022-02-26T10:24:32Z")

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> [@Beckfield](#):
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> I’ve seen many releases that have several disc IDs attached, which seems wrong in my feeble understanding,

That irked me too, which is why I suggested some [rules of thumb](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/rules-of-thumb-for-the-clean-up-of-releases-with-multiple-discids/492301) for safely removing superfluous DiscIDs.

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