Re: [mb-users] Releases with incorrect barcodes on the physical medium

Hello,

On 09/25/2012 05:43 PM, caller#6 wrote:
> If that's the prevailing wisdom, I won't fight it but it doesn't make
> sense to me.
>
> To me, the barcode is a functional thing. If it doesn't actually
> identify a product in the marketplace, why enter it? I have to believe
> that for cases like this that are obviously printing/clerical errors of
> some kind, the problem was fixed with a sticker or something. Retailers
> had to keep track of inventory didn't they?

I expect one of the uses of barcodes is for a musicbrainz user to 
perform a lookup of data in the database by scanning whatever barcode is 
printed on the physical release they have.  Which to me means that if a 
barcode appears on a physical release, I should be allowed to enter it 
in a machine readable field in musicbrainz when I enter that release.

-- kuno / warp.