Re: [mb-users] LP with digital download

Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Greg Ward <

> greg@

> > 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.
> 
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> Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
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