Philip Meyer;381552 Wrote: > I haven't used MusicBrainz, but are you saying that even the most > obscure albums (eg. unofficial live concerts, etc), will have unique > *album* id's? Are they album id's, or disk id's? > > Are the unique id's really guaranteed to be unique, or just unlikely > (eg. MD5 checksum). >
They are 'release IDs'. In most cases, this is the same as a disc ID (ie, a multidisc set will have different ID's for each disc). The exception is that Musicbrainz does recognize that not all 'releases' are on CD, so it is possible that it could be a sort of album-id on releases that do not make it to CD. As for "unofficial" releases, MB does allow bootlegs: their goal is to document releases, and a bootleg is still a release even if not sanctioned. Of course, many bootlegs have a historical significance, so documenting them is important. So, yes, there are plenty of bootlegs listed on MusicBrainz. They tend to avoid "burned" CDs, though: a pressed CD is much preferred, and torrent-only things are frowned on. There are also "ITMS Store Only" sorts of things there, oddball collections of rarities and remasters that only sell online and only via ITMS. Oh, yeah, and it's some stupidly long number: I'm too old and tired to count the bits, but it's a huge number and is unique. No clue how it is computed, but my guess is it's just a UUID computation and any sort of collision just gets recomputed. That said: since it is (for things on CD media anyway) more of a Disc Id than an actual album ID, it isn't all that useful for dealing with seperating albums since it will break apart multi cd sets, though TPOS/DISCNUMBER type tags could help there. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57807 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
