Re: [mb-users] LP with digital download

Jazzy Jarilith wrote
> I'm in agreement with Reosarevok on that one. The "Digital Copy" does not
> actually come with the packaging. What you get is merely the right to
> download the digital version of the album and thus through a download
> code.
> I would rather see the download card/coupon being mentioned in the
> annotation field.
> 
> On a side note, second-hand buyers don't get any use from those download
> codes. Do they get partial releases? ;-)
> 
> 
> 2014-03-29 0:18 GMT+01:00 Jan van Thiel (MusicBrainz) <

> zout@

> >
> :
> 
>> On 27 March 2014 14:15, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <

> reosarevok@

> >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.
>>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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I agree, the download card is not a medium, merely a means to get a free
copy of another release.



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