[mb-users] Guess I'll boycott adding release events

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Isn't the year listed in the copyright notice of most albums? If you
don't know the month and date, just don't guess, leave it with year
only. About the label, doesn't looking at the catalog number usually
help determining this?

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been ripping my ever-growing CD collection and entering them into
> MBz.  I'll add artist, album, label, release event, and AMZ ASIN if
> any are missing.  I usually end up adding only a release event.  The
> problem is half of the information I enter for a release event is
> uncertain at best and almost definitely wrong at worst.  I can't feel
> good about entering a bunch of erroneous information into MBz.  Date I
> get from whatever an AMZ search brings up, and it must be wrong the
> majority of the time since my CD likely doesn't correspond to the AMZ
> one.  Country I have no idea and no reasonable way of finding out.
> Label is nearly as bad as country.  There are always at least 2 labels
> printed on the CD, sometimes more, and MBz has further granularity
> within most labels.  Catalog number and format I always know for sure,
> and usually the barcode too.  Strangely though, those are optional and
> the ones I don't know are required.  Because of this I end up entering
> more erroneous information into MBz than correct information.  I see
> there is an "Unknown Country" option, and that is good, but I wish
> that option were selected by default.
>
> Overall, it's time-consuming and (worse) non-productive to enter
> release events into MBz at this point.  I'm always ready to change my
> mind and if anyone can talk me out of this I'll revert.
>
> I do keep a spreadsheet record of each of my CD's catalog numbers and
> a label guess because that is definitely important information.
>
> - Grant
>
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