[mb-users] Re: Clean vs. Explicit versions

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2007/10/26, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>:
>
> > Each is a
> > > whole lot more different from each other than some other instances
> > (10+
> > > sec
> > > track time difference, etc) where we list separately...
> > >
> >
> > I think you couldn't be more wrong in the above comment.  In 99% of
> > these
> > clean vs. dirty hip-hop album versions, the only difference between the
> > 2
> > releases is either a beeping or squelching of the swears or completely
> > removing them altogether.
> >
>
> How is the presence of absence of beeping/squelching/silence/etc not a
> rather audible difference between the two versions?  A 10 second difference
> could simply be that the master was final mixed slightly slower on one
> version of a CD release, etc.  The presence or absence of beeps, blurps,
> squelches, silence, whatever, would seem at least as, if not more,
> significant in differentiating the 2 releases as two versions of the same
> release.  I've not seen the reverse addressed though - why *should* the two
> versions be merged as a single listing?
>
> Brian
>

I agree this is not cool. I had issues with PUIDs being too discriminant (I
had different PUIDs for different compression levels of the same tracks),
now we seem to have not discriminant enough. Maybe there is currently no
better solution, but we must stay aware of the problem.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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