A while back I was told promotional photographs and images were not to be added to the Cover Art Archive, primarily because they’re not cover art.
An auto-editor recently added a slough of these images to a release (so there was no chance one of us could vote them down). I called him out on this, all the while entering edits to remove those images he uploaded that are not cover art and cannot reasonably be considered cover art, yet that same editor hit me with a barrage of No votes, claiming that they “weren’t hurting anything.”
hyperlink because long URL is looooooong
Edit #56146932 is adding a duplicate of this RG.
I’m not the only one who already explained to the editor how to add a new release into an existing release group without any response. Could someone please try it in French? Thanks.
I’m merging the RGs in Edit #56147068.
Could I get some votes on this edit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56233591
I mistakenly grabbed the wrong artist “B. Emerson” and it should have been “Bill Emerson”. The “B. Emerson” artist is being merged into “Wild Bill Emerson” in 3-4 days which would cause this edit to fail and be on the wrong artist.
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Hi all,
Can someone have a look at those 3 edits :
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56248601
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56248786
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56248788
I had to fix the releasegroup, album name and tracklist as it was… Let say “not correct” ^^
Thanks!
Smeulf
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Please don’t link to edits that you disagree with here, esp. without any discussion (here) of why.
Rather make a new post where you argue your case which can maybe/hopefully leave to a discussion of the guideline.
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a4f72ae-e285-42a9-a9e1-49e224c9a979/open_edits
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d47e76b2-9564-4a90-857e-064a83064474/open_edits
It is fairly self explanatory in the edit summary.
undid my own recent edits.
pictures of John Sherrill look like two different people. and at least one of them is now in South Carolina.
But they both started in Texas, are in the same genre, play the same instruments, and numerous sites have their discographies combined.
If they end up being the same person, i will redo the edits. But for right now, it is better to not include the questionable information.
I’d just like the edits cleared out so that I can start fresh.
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I need some help with https://musicbrainz.org/release/9a12cec2-dbc7-4ac6-85dd-ab708db66cd5
My annotations on this release explain the problem and I don’t have the skills to fix it. If someone can fix it most of my annotations become redundant. Just leave the bit that starts ‘Packaging is…’.
Thanks in anticipation.
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https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56700004
I’m changing the band’s sort name from ‘La Luz’ to ‘Luz, La’. Seems pretty obvious, but maybe I didn’t notice something. Anyone opposed?
I would like to remove these two artists from the band so that I can split the band into separate artists
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56803418
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/56803417
Maybe I am missing something, but it seems this edit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57074420 is one of several changing CSG correct Recording Artist Credit (performer) to incorrect (composer). Editor has neither cancelled edits nor answered my last note, with 2 days left pending.
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Could I get some votes on this edit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57179313
I added a release with tracks 6&7 reversed then added the discid. When I found my mistake I have to remove discid before I can reorder the 2 tracks.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just swap the names and recordings?
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Do you mean rename track6 to track7 and 7 to 6 (and recordings )? That could be easier and take less time. My only thought is that there are 2 sets of MBID’s that are going to swap there names with each other, is that the correct way to do it?
I mean rename the tracks and switch the connections to the recordings. That way the names and the MBIDs of the recordings remain the same.
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All done - post can be ignored now. Thanks voters
Okay. This is daft. When tagging and updating my own copy of Moby’s Play I found a few Vinyl double albums stored as a single disk with tracks numbered 1 to 18. My attempt to split these up properly have led to rather daft 6 day wait on some of them… which means for the next week these albums are a confused mess.
Please vote to kick these through. Check artwork and/or discogs link and you’ll see this is a legit split.
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57253300
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57253299 (conversation on here about my changes)
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5/open_edits
Update 1
I tweaked a couple of other Vinyl copies of Moby’s Play so now there is a rather weird look to the list. Some went through immediately, others have tripped up due to me doing edits in the wrong order.
There are FOUR double Vinyl 12" versions listed. And they are now all in different states of flux while these corrections go through.
The frustrating side effect of this is that for the next week it means no one will be able to find their “correct” vinyl copy and none of the track lists match for vinyl until the edits kick in.
As I started this chaos, I’ll follow it through to the end and make sure it is all behaving correctly. So there will be a clean up by me at the end. (Including merging that clear duplicate) I’m just tripped up at the moment by the out-of-sync edits.
My last open edits for Play at this moment (ignoring the art):
https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5/open_edits
Any votes to kick that stuff through would be handy… The aim being to put the 18-track single sided vinyl into their correct 2 x 12" Vinyl with correct track split and track naming
Thanks 
Update 2: Thanks for the voters who kicked the main edits through. One album left and it will be sane again.
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57257301
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57257502
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57257503
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/57251813
Just hope no one was trying to organise their Moby disks this weekend…
Update 3: All done now. thanks. And comically the next step is to merge the two identical US releases which means all that faffing around with disks will disappear anyway. The duplicate couldn’t be seen when it was just that single 18 track vinyl.
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This is standard when you have to do a big fix with something!
I usually have a few ‘_check after merge’/’_merge after edits pass’ tags going…
I haven’t found a need to worry about it. You could always add the ‘correct’ release and then merge the others in if you need the data asap
Yeah - I can see this is fairly standard. Just need to learn the subtleties as some of the changes flew through without check or delay.
The confusing stage is like this one where it is half and half. For a while there were a number of the vinyl releases there with a HUGE disk one with every track still on it and a new disk two duplicating half of those tracks. Which lead to the weirdest of the madness.
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