What is the difference between tracks and recordings?

They both have ids and song names. Also in the “track” file in the musicbrainz dump, there is a “recording” col as well as “id”. So there must be some difference that I am not aware of.

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A track is just a listing on one, and only one, release. It represents a recording, which could be linked to tracks on many releases.

This page explains it more fully:

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