Re: [mb-users] LP with digital download
"Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz)" <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:18:00 +0100
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On 27 March 2014 14:15, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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. > I would add these as a 2-medium releases. Often, the packaging has a sticker/piece of cardboard stating it's a vinyl+download or vinyl+cd release. I see them as 1 release. Examples: http://musicbrainz.org/release/c3d51a3c-1380-4dad-aecc-f16b8384dd85 http://musicbrainz.org/release/932a8fee-29c2-4afe-abbf-459410b1bd98 http://musicbrainz.org/release/1d01ed78-51ad-4493-940e-cf4ee4158da9 http://musicbrainz.org/release/f7844735-397b-402a-8bcb-e49ed6006c51 Regards, Jan / zout _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users