[mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds

Mike Morrison mikemorr at umich.edu
Fri May 9 19:50:26 UTC 2008


On Fri, 9 May 2008, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> I don't agree. If I see two discids I'll think that there are (at
> least) two pressings of the CD, not that someone ripped a CDR (from a
> friend or whatever) and used MusicBrainz to tag it. Peoples homemade
> discids are cruft and I applaud anyone who takes the time to clean up
> cruft even when the cruft is not causing much damage. Some more
> practically inclined will think that it's a waste of time, but why
> vote no?
>
> Philip
>
> On 5/9/08, Paul C. Bryan <email at pbryan.net> wrote:
>> Unless there was a serious risk of DiscID collisions, I'd tend to
>>  tolerate so-called "homeburnt" CDs. What would be irritating (but
>>  probably still tolerable) would be if multiple burner applications
>>  and/or combinations of albums resulted in the proliferation of DiscIDs.
>>  So far, I'm not seeing this as a problem.

Maybe we should have a per-DiscId "CDR" flag, if we're going to allow 
homebrews.

Mike


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