[mb-users] Bootleg DiscIDs

[Sami Sundell]

Good morning everyone,

I've been on a hunt for bad PUIDs, wrong tracklistings, ugly DiscIDs and
that sort of things for the past few days.

To put it shortly, what is the situation with DiscID's for bootlegs that
don't have any real pressings but are distributed as CD-Rs? The issue
came up on <URL:http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5788581>, and
while I agree that DiscID has some use (at least they give us track
times), on the whole they are fairly useless when it comes to CD-Rs.

I think that the proof of the existence of some bootleg should be
provided in edit notes, and perhaps even more in annotations. Some
artists have dozens of bootlegs with no information about the origins of
the release; since we're talking about unofficial releases, at least
some information should be provided.

While I'm on the subject, I also think it would be good to have the
bootlegs in a separate list in the artist page. Some artists have more
bootlegs than official releases, having them in the same list makes it
hard to find the correct release.

-- 
 Sami Sundell
 sami.sundell at kotikone.fi