The Steve Miller Band: Greatest Hits 1974-78 quandary. I have added cover art https://musicbrainz.org/edit/66314675 in the form of medium & hub to an existing release that matches my TOC, cat# & bc. I did this after finding a discrepancy in the medium art at 3 o’clock. The spacing is different between the existing CDP and DIDY numbers. Aside from the hub info, EVERYTHING ELSE including ALL artwork, appears to be identical. Diligent web searching of this release has been of no help with trying to find the rabbit in this hole.
Does this qualify as a new release even if I can’t really substantiate it as being that different? I’m well aware of @Freso’s past comments and those of my peers concerning somewhat similar issues but it doesn’t seem to fit this seemingly insignificant difference. Yes, my hub info does appear to indicate mine is an early1990 release while the initial art is probably mid 80’s. My OCD would not let me overlook this triviality but what is left of my common sense says to let it be. I will be grateful for any comments and willing to cancel my edit if found to be erroneous. This seems to be a variant more so than a completely new release.
Hi @Griomo, I’ve replaced those recordings with the ones by Promenade Orchestra / Nigel Simpson.
I’m not sure that Scholz is not involved here - presumably the OE credited the recordings to the Slovak Phil for a reason, and probably found the recordings they reused by their acoustids. But since they didn’t add any evidence, we’ll go with yours. It may turn out in the future that they are the same.
Hello, there is a years bug on duplicate AC that makes some artist pages and release pages look weird.
Please make this pending edit, step 1 of 2, fix on DEEP PURPLE, and is successor passas quick as possible (because the artist will look even weirder between steps 1 and 2).
Thus the artist page and many release pages inappropriately show track AC column even if they all look like the artist name and there should be no AC column in this case.
I have waited more than years for bug fix or a batch that would remove those bogus AC (not only on Deep Purple).
I still wait for it but for Deep Purple at least, I want things sorted now.
Here’s another rehash of the old “age of the MBID” debate: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/66412599
It should be fairly simple to change the last name on the target after the merge goes through, but some people might disagree about the methodology I used (prioritizing the age of the MBID over the accuracy/timeliness of the data).
This involves a young editor who has repeatedly added fictional releases in the past. She claims she’ll provide a source, but never does, because she can’t. I’m cleaning it up, but need votes to override her “No” on the removal.
Can we get some opinions on this. I maintain that since there is no clear cut guidelines on this that they should remain separate RGs as they have been treated that way. If I’m wrong, I’ll gladly proceed in the future, but I’m basing this off guidelines that state to keep separate when there is controversy. I don’t think a live single or a remix single is the same as the original single. @chiark disagree and just changed this without a vote by going around the voting process, which I think was wrong.
I found it odd that the release didn’t already reflect the cover text, but there was nothing about it in the edit history.
One could also make a case for changing the artist credit to P. Funk, but that seems less clear to me. It does also say “Parliament” (and the spine and disc only have “Parliament’s Greatest Hits”).
Parliament’s Greatest Hits (P. Funk; Uncut Funk… The Bomb)
I would say that “Parliament’s Greatest Hits” is the main title, as it is displayed on the side.
Discogs actually list all secondary text, which you haven’t in your edit
I would note that only one of 17 releases on discogs uses that variant, and one uses another variant including “Uncut Funk”, but the remaining 15 all use “Parliament’s Greatest Hits”.
As I said in my edit note, I think “Uncut Funk…the Bomb” should be considered just part of the cover art. Spine and disc show only “Parliament’s Greatest Hits”.
