Re: [mb-users] Releases with incorrect barcodes on the physical medium
Alex Mauer <[email protected]>
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On 09/24/2012 11:16 AM, caller#6 wrote: > 1. That shared barcode is legit, and is registered to Analogue > Productions (according to gs1.org). So that's a good start. > 2. And it seems to belongs to the Freddie Hubbard disc. Amazon thinks > it's the correct one. And there's the corresponding "84073" in the > barcode & catalog number. > 3. As you said, the other barcodes (given on the sa-cd.net thread) are > suspect. For "Temptation" > - Googling "753088004964" I get some hits for "Temptation". > - But Amazon thinks it should be "0753088404863" (using > ASIN>Barcode lookup). > > As I understand it, we don't enter barcodes "as on cover". For example, > we add check digits where they're missing, or leading zeros, to make > them valid. My understanding is that we do enter them as on cover, but we enter the *barcode data* not the human readable. So adding check digits (which will be there in the barcode data) is perfectly fine. Leading zeros … not so much. > So in my opinion, add all three barcodes to the annotation, and if it > can't be established which is correct, then don't enter any in the > barcode field. I would say that if they appear on the release, the barcode is correct. Even if it was assigned incorrectly, or just made up or copied from some arbitrary other release. (Bootlegs do this occasionally) _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users