I was trying to get my Galaxie 500 collection syncronized with MB and was wondering what was to be done with the multiple releases of their album "Today". As you can see on the Discogs page (
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Galaxie+500 ), there were two releases of "Today" that had 11 tracks. The one in 1991 was not remastered, and the one in 1997 was. Not sure whether these should be entered as separate MB releases or just one with different dates. My searching came up with
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/HowToMergeReleases which states among releases that shouldn't be merged: "Remasters of the same release, especially if the audio sounds different". I also came upon
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/DuplicateRelease which says more or less the same thing.
Armed with this knowledge, I made the mod
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=5114435 only to find later a no vote on the basis that "AFAIK, remastered versions with identical tracks don't appear as seperate releases in MB". I looked at the voter's (Stell) history of failed mods and I can totally see why he voted no on this, after seeing
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4415316 ,
http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4415272 and several others.
I guess my question is: is the wiki right or are these mods right? I have heard the Rough Trade release and the Ryko release of "Today" and the remastering is evident. By what I have researched, these should be separate releases. Supposing they were merged as one release with two different dates, could I add an Advanced Relationship RemasterRelationshipType between the 11 track MB release and the original 9 track version? After all, I would be saying that this entire release was a remaster of the earlier version, which would actually not be true, since the hypothetical two release dates for the one record actually denote fundamentally different releases.
If the consensus is that this is okay and remasters and original masters should have the same MB release, can this information be removed from the wiki?
Thanks for the consideration. I certainly don't want to be argumentative and I just want to conform to the rules and avoid making mods like this that people will have good reason to vote 'no' on.
-Steve