Re: [mb-users] LP with digital download

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Greg Ward <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 26 March 2014, I said:
> > you may have noticed that if you buy a new vinyl LP these days, it
> > usually comes with a free digital download. How are these things
> > captured in MusicBrainz? Seems to me that it ought to be a single
> > release with two media: one 12" vinyl, one digital.
>
> Ghostofcain replied
> > Are we talking an Amazon type autorip release, i.e where Amazon give you
> > a free digital copy?
>
> No.
>
> Example #1: I bought the LP "Bon Iver, Bon Iver" in a record store
> about a year ago. (Wow, that sentence is like a relic from a vanished
> age.) The LP included a slip of paper from the record label that told
> me where to download MP3 copies of all the songs on the album using an
> obfuscated URL.
>
> Example #2: I bought the LP "Mass:Light" by Murray Lightburn from the
> artist's web site this week. I got the LP by post, and URL to download
> MP3 copies of the album by email. See
>
> http://store.thedears.org/related-projects/de050001-murray-a-lightburn-mass-light-available-august-1-2013/
>
> (Interesting: this album doesn't even have a CD release: vinyl and MP3
> only.)


I would probably see it as "you buy a vinyl release, get gifted a
(separate) digital release" myself.

-- 
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren

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