On 7/3/06, doidy <
arc_dx@...> wrote:
> I haven't seen it, either, really, and I'm fine if this discussion leads to
> changes, but doesn't that just mean that people aren't following the rules
> as they're set forth on the wiki? I mean, if you saw a remaster and an
> original release under an artist that have the same tracks, would you merge
> them? Or would you follow what it says on
>
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/HowToMergeReleases ?
If the number of tracks is the same, and the track times within a
second or two of each other, I regularly merge remasters, reissues,
and original releases. And I add all the information about the
releases, including dates and catalog numbers, to the album itself,
and to the annotation.
I have never had one of these merges fail a vote. Indeed, unless one
of the albums in question has "remaster" in the title (which they
mostly don't), from anyone elses point of view, it's a perfectly
ordinary merging of duplicate albums.
I don't merge them if the track listings are different in either order
or number, or if the track times are substantially changed (more than
a couple of seconds difference) I've never come across one that was
so near it was a hard decisiion, to be honest, usually when a remaster
has changed a track time, it does so by a substantial amount.
Regards,
--
Lauri Watts
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