When to delete old cover art?

MusicBrainz
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i’ve just uploaded some new cover art for this release. it’s a Japanese release, so it has an obi.

the previous artwork had low-resolution scans of the front+obi and back+obi. i’ve uploaded high resolution scans of the front and back without the obi, and the obi alone.

my question is, what should i do with the existing front and back scans? i understand that usually replacing artwork with an identical higher-quality version justifies deleting the older version, but in this case, the artwork is not the same.

should i leave the existing artwork but move mine before it in the order?

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Yes, bump your best front up front. But some will want to see the cover as it is with obi in place. So I would leave those available if I was adding artwork.

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Yes, keep them, they’re useful to see how the packaging looks in shops, combined obi+back and combined obi+front.

And furthermore, there is that blue hype sticker on the combined front cover/obi/sticker image, that does not appear in your uploads.

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thanks both. i’ve reordered the album art but left the old images.

i did delete the existing medium (CD) image as there’s no difference between the two other than one being higher quality.

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Personally, I like seeing the distinctive packaging from the release group page, to see market variants, rather than the “pure” front covers, that all look similar. :wink:

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Agreed that the cover with OBI is better for telling releases apart.

It would be fairly trivial to combine your OBI and front image, for an excellent quality front + OBI image, by the way :smiley:

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