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

Kuno Woudt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

On 10/04/2012 10:11 AM, jacobbrett wrote:
> The problem is that online retailers may get hold of the correct barcode, so
> we have two barcodes in the wild attributed to one release. Perhaps the
> obvious solution is to support multiple barcodes for a release, though with
> a flag to specify if it's technically incorrect?

I see two options:

1. Allow multiple barcodes on a release
2. Accept two entries in the database for what is only a single release.

Solution #2 is acceptable to me, as the situation is reasonably rare. 
(Though I wouldn't object to solution #1).

-- kuno / warp.
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