Re: [mb-users] Are different digital downloads different releases?

2013/1/8 RocknRollArchivist <[email protected]>

> MeinDummy wrote
> > [...]
> > Another reason is that we all probably get the same types of differences
> > in our CD-based music collections. Everyone rips their own CDs with
> > different encoder settings, gets cover art from his preferred sites and
> > names the files according to his own file naming scheme. And all those
> > different local versions are (of course) represented in MB by the same CD
> > release.
> > [...]
> > Christian (MD)
>
> Completely disagree with this reasoning:
> 1) What is the relation with a rips? We store in MB a CDs as a set of
> recordings with duration and title only, and not as a rips. MB is not a
> torrent tracker, please do not mismatch them. Generally we add a CD by
> means
> of Picard, when the CD is putted in drive. No rip here, a TOC only. And
> even
> someone add a CD by means of files grabbed from a CD, the tracks' durations
> from same release still same, independently of grabbing software and its
> settings. (What encoder you mean?)
>

At first I thought just like you. Then I thought about PUIDs and AcoutsIDs.
They could be different depending on the compression rate or the
compression engine, since they are calculated from the compressed sound.
Note that I wrote "they could", not "they are". Most of the times, they are
actually identical, but this is not guaranteed.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » -
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