[#MBS-4104] Show release merges under all track/recording artists - MusicBrainz JIRA

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Show release merges under all track/recording artists

Created: 03/Jan/12 02:10 AM Updated: 16/Oct/12 07:55 PM Resolved: 16/Oct/12 07:55 PM

Component/s:

Edit system

Affects Version/s:

None

Fix Version/s:

Schema change, 2012-10-15

Issue Links:

Depends

This issue depends on:

~~MBS-4105~~ Warn when merging releases with track artists that don't match

Resolution

This issue resolves:

~~MBS-4978~~ Release merges with strategy "Merge mediums and recordings" don't show up on the affected recordings' open edits list.

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When merging a release, the merge is only shown under the release artists. Since merging releases also merges the recordings, this means that people can merge recordings on Various Artist releases without anyone subscribed to the track artists knowing. Since recordings can be shared by tens of releases, this makes a single bad merge a complete nightmare to fix.

See http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=3332 and the discussion on http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2012/2012-01/2012-01-03.html for a real example. That track alone was linked to about 70 releases before bitmap started fixing it and there are another 15 tracks on the release that need fixing.

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Aurélien Mino added a comment - 03/Jan/12 07:10 AM

I agree with this request, but only if the "merge medium and recordings" strategy has been chosen.

Otherwise it's going to generates huge noise in subscriptions mails, each time a multi disc various artists compilation is merged with the more frequently used "append medium" strategy.
(I already have this issue with "Add medium" edit for VA compilation where I'm subscribed to most artists appearing in the compilation)

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Nicolás Tamargo added a comment - 03/Jan/12 07:27 AM

Seeing that the append method doesn't damage recordings, that would make sense.

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Michael Wiencek added a comment - 03/Jan/12 07:28 AM

Yes, that makes the most sense. I also don't want to see VA append-merges in my subscriptions, because I don't consider them as edits specifically against any of the artists on the medium (unlike the merge recordings method).

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nikki added a comment - 04/Jan/12 05:50 AM

Yeah, this was intended for the merge mediums strategy. I hadn't thought about the append one, but I agree that that's different and doesn't need to show up under the recording artists since it doesn't touch the recordings.