TRACKS (Beta) Updates - Summer 2018

Hey folks,

Some updates went live for the Tracks beta functionality right now!

Tracks on Releases are now linked to their Composition page, and Compositions can now be migrated to others on the Artist Tracks page, in order that everyone can help tidy up the groupings.

You can get an overview of 'Tracks' here.

You can read more about the new Tracks functionality at: How to edit Composition Titles, How to migrate Tracks from duplicate Compositions

There is a survey on all the Beta Tracks pages that you can use to give us your . You can also ask questions etc as usual in this thread.

Thanks!

https://discogs.versitio.com/artist/353441-Runrig/tracks

Why not combine Abhainin An T-Sluaigh

etc

https://discogs.versitio.com/artist/353441-Runrig/tracks

Why not combine Abhainin An T-Sluaigh

etc

You can do this, instructions are at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264154-How-to-migrate-Tracks-from-duplicate-Compositions

Matching tracks automatically is actually quite involved, which is why you see duplicate Compositions, and why we need people like you to help migrate the duplicate compositions :-)

There is a deeper explanation at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature under "How is all of this possible?".

Cheers!

nik
Some updates went live for the Tracks beta functionality right now!

Looks promising indeed at first glance! This is going to be fun.

nik
MusicNutterhttps://discogs.versitio.com/artist/353441-Runrig/tracks

Why not combine Abhainin An T-Sluaigh

etc

You can do this, instructions are at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264154-How-to-migrate-Tracks-from-duplicate-Compositions

Matching tracks automatically is actually quite involved, which is why you see duplicate Compositions, and why we need people like you to help migrate the duplicate compositions :-)

There is a deeper explanation at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature under "How is all of this possible?".

Cheers!

why the extra step though

Is there currently a way to merge compositions that don't have a written-by credit and don't share the main artist?

Example: tracks from Melvins (Night Goat, Hooch, etc)

OK, I haven't played around with this at all but it looks like it's pulling tracks from post-merge drafts ?

https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/887eaa34-35c7-4b33-ae4e-7429d4292ed7

As mentioned here -

https://discogs.versitio.com/forum/thread/771059#7645916

Ah, I see - submitted 10 months ago, before the merge.

So they need to be migrated. But will the old draft still show up?

AmazingDiscoveries
looks like it's pulling tracks from post-merge drafts

Thanks, we are aware of this issue and will run a purge at some point :-)

Two more bugs I encountered, in addition to the above:
- Sometimes, when I want to open the dropdown menu for one song, it opens the one for the song after it.
- Some songs are apparently listed twice, despite having the exact same writing.

Thanks for the quick update too! :)

It would be nice to have access to composers in the list of Compositions, to check same track title vs. different composer(s)

For some, the name of the functionality "Tracks" might be confusing because it is more about compositions. A track with at title like "This Is A Track (Original Mix)" a different track would often be considered to be a different track than "This Is A Track (Someone's Remix)" but it's still listed under the same composition.

I also found out that the two links at the bottom of https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature do not work. I was eventually redirected to https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us
Also, when I click "How to edit Composition Titles" at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature, the section "Overview of the Tracks Feature" disappears.

Also, is it possible to use this function for the composer role (composed tracks) of an artists ?

Good function to fix the so many typos ;-)
Huge work ahead :-(

jweijde
I also found out that the two links at the bottom of https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature do not work. I was eventually redirected to https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us
Also, when I click "How to edit Composition Titles" at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature, the section "Overview of the Tracks Feature" disappears.

Investigating now, thanks!

Diognes_The_Fox
Investigating now, thanks!

It looks like that's all done on zendesk's end. Hopefully it'll autoupdate to the correct links soon.

It should be linking to these, though:
https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264154
https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264334

Wow! Great stuff

I think it would be great if, when locking at a composition/track, it was possible to se who the main artist of the release is. Especially on tracks that many different artists have recorded versions/covers of

It does not seem like there have been an update to the guide lines with guide lines about this new function and how to handle updating the tracks etc.

I think its important to write that asap so we dont have to have a lot of arguments about this in the forums. For example, does all remixes count as the same composition? How is it if someone makes a version on the same instrumental but with new vocals/lyrics? Etcetc

Also I sawon some compositions that they aree named after a version with "( )", for example Track Title (Instrumental) in the name, is it possible to change what is the "main" track title so the correct/full/original version is the correct one?
EDIT: did see now that this is possible

Awesome update..!!
It gives a new and fresh perspective to the whole database and the philosophy behind it...!

borderes
Huge work ahead

This is more than sure..
But first, before proceeding to edits, many things have to be clarified..

what does it mean when you get - instead of track name for results example first 2 here
https://discogs.versitio.com/artist/97664-Bee-Gees/tracks
- 1 Track
- 1 Track
14 In The Morning 1 Track 2006
1963-1966 Brilliant From Birth 1 Track 2001

The algorithm is good but ...
- does he removed trailing blanks (spaces) at the end of the title?
- could it manage the accents eg. a / á does not mean 2 different variants

4theLuvOvMusic

- 1 Track
- 1 Track

Good catch. It's taking the headings (IMO it shouldn't) and in this case, pseudo headings with"-" (just a dash) - see Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees* - The Original Motion Picture Sound Track

Also for Runrig Èirinn (Ireland)

https://discogs.versitio.com/artist/353441-Runrig/tracks

I'm wondering what the correcting of track titles is supposed to do. If I press the 'Edit' link next to a track title, the view goes to an edit mode and when I hover the mouse above the title it says 'Click to edit Title'. I notice that for tracks that only have one release nothing happens. But for the ones that have the track on more than one release, I get an option to 'correct' the title.

An example, ABBA's "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" from 1975. That's the original/official/correct title and you can guess that all kinds of variations from that have been used over the years! Over 20 are shown in the list. There's "I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do" on 20 releases. That's probably the way it appears on them, should it be corrected - and does this correction also change the release page? Now when I click the title nothing happens, except the list updates and the "I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do" disappears altogether! Something is seriously wrong here.

Just took the survey and after pressing the "Done" button, nothing happens...

borderes
Good catch. It's taking the headings (IMO it shouldn't) and in this case, pseudo headings with"-" (just a dash) - see Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees* - The Original Motion Picture Sound Track

is using - as Index tracks names are even correct?

"Migrate All Tracks
Save Changes
Minified exception occurred; use the non-minified dev environment for the full error message and additional helpful warnings."

That's after the tracks page stalled and I tried to migrate the releases I had checked so far to be the same...

Edits 1 & 3:
another glitch:
"Save Changes
can't convert undefined to object"
I'm now getting this with all my attempts.

Edit2:
"Save Changes
NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource."
After reloading the artist's Tracks page the migration had gone through nevertheless.

Not too promising.

This becomes a little tricky when two separate tracks are inappropriately listed as combined on a release. For example, "Aubade" and "And I Am Not Like Other Birds Of Prey" are separate tracks on a 1985 Spanish re-release.

"And I Am Not Like Other Birds Of Prey" is listed as a separate composition:
https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/76f6f728-b300-4723-861e-0e47e9b35b6b-And-I-Am-Not-Like-Other-Birds-Of-Prey

However, "Aubade" is collected under 8 compositions each with a combined title, which include the incorrectly combined tracks, e.g. "Aubade (And I Am Not Like Other Birds Of Prey)":
https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/6ce038f6-13ef-467f-accd-17bc8539a91a-Aubade-And-I-Am-Not-Like-Other-Birds-Of-Prey

"Aubade" therefore never exists on its own as a composition in discogs. Even if compositions where this track is listed separately were split off from the other compositions, there would still be a whole heap of "Aubade"s that remain incorrectly combined with "And I Am Not Like Other Birds Of Prey" under a separate composition.

https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/d13d9d9c-ad13-4f68-ad3f-17f9f48d92a5-Let-Your-Living-Water-Flow

Stuart never composed the song

phallancz
Is there currently a way to merge compositions that don't have a written-by credit and don't share the main artist?

Example: tracks from The Fantômas Melvins Big Band - Millennium Monsterwork 2000 are not currently linked to Melvins (Night Goat, Hooch, etc)

It looks like we will have to add uncredited written-by credits for tracks like this, in order to fix under which composition the track is listed. For instance, Supertramp's live cover of "All Along The Watchtower" is credited to them, not to Bob Dylan, because there's no writing credits on that release.

This will be essential if "This project is part of the bigger vision to make Discogs the biggest and most comprehensive music database in the world." (https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature )

the Supertramp tracks page as being 1977.

Seems that not all releases are having this functionality.
E.g. Husky Rescue - The Long Lost Friend
Others in the master have tracks linked.
How to activate? Empty edit?

I'm still failing to understand what Composition means.

Seems to me that some sort of ANV type function is needed for adapting titles like A Meditation Mass Pt 1 to the more common Part 1

See: https://discogs.versitio.com/artist/350354-Yatha-Sidhra/tracks

Will it be possible at some stage to move a track from one composition to another?

Congrats! Nice to see this live.

+ The help pages are nicely done
- Editing menu / modal stuck at the top of the page + infinite scrolling = not entirely friendly, methodically going through an artist's page migrating split compos and the constant scrolling up and down the page to access the Migrate all button then go back to the next compo is getting tiresome by the letter H

What will happen with box sets that have been submitted using this.

Will these be excluded or do all the tracks need to be added manually?

A few more examples are in this list.

Since yesterday I can hardly pictures successfully. Mostly results in 408 error. Too much server load due to this new feature?

WOW - a quantum leap!

how do i merge: https://discogs.versitio.com/release/5576993
(this is the initial/original release from 1992 but but banned from marketplace / why?)

with the bootlegs?
https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/a39c8d8e-c0f1-42f1-9fc8-363c47c510c4-51-Hours

Ok....audiobooks...

https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/712e327b-7804-4ba5-adb4-d90d12f7d2b4-Part-2

Going to be way way off

wintersnooze
audiobooks...

https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/712e327b-7804-4ba5-adb4-d90d12f7d2b4-Part-2

Going to be way way off

Index tracks should sort those out.

_jules
- Editing menu / modal stuck at the top of the page + infinite scrolling = not entirely friendly, methodically going through an artist's page migrating split compos and the constant scrolling up and down the page to access the Migrate all button then go back to the next compo is getting tiresome by the letter H

After giving it another chance, this Edit menu / modal thing really needs to be "floating", the scrolling up and down makes it near impossible to sort larger trackographies, those that are direly in need of mass migrations.

Is there a mean to degroup some songs?

Serge Gainsbourg's track called "La Noyée" (which is a totally different track).

In 2002, he released a live album, https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/1f24ea7f-40f0-4957-bafc-8047b61c0e7e-La-Noy%C3%A9e mixed the two different songs...

(I had the same problem with a small punk band that recorded a song called I Don't Need on a record, then another song with the same name and when they grouped both on a compilation, they realized they have 2 songs with the same name so they renamed the second)

Yes, a de-group / undo migration feature is needed.
Huge potential for vandalism when there's no way to correct groupings...

Great to see this feature in action finally!

I just edited a release to feature index tracks. ( Concerto No. 1 For Piano & Orchestra In E Minor Op. 11 / Concerto No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra In F Minor Op. 21 )

After a few minutes the index tracks went 'clickable' to link to the corresponding composition page,
but the individual sub-tracks also still link to their tracks page, which should not be the case after adding index tracks.

Is this a bug, or does it just take its time for the system to catch up?

I don't understand how this works yet, but when there is 2 languages with = like for https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/e15f8186-cd49-4d75-97c0-242b00d0d6a1-Close-Another-Door-%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B6%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%A2
it is not sorting with the rest on https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/8100b5da-f19a-4d95-a685-f456b618a71a-Close-Another-Door
how to fix?

very useful feature - thank you - wow

with this we can see the significant importance of correct crediting of performers & composers
(and all erroneous entered) and the "problem" if they are not on the release or wrong printed

track 2-9 @ https://discogs.versitio.com/release/7323090
listed here
https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/ff54b407-e393-49c7-a268-73cb5a9266a8-Booty
belong to the next one(s)

this two are the same recording and belong together
https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/3e257ab9-7608-4837-bdf6-7a1aaf05ed84-Booty

since track 6 @ https://discogs.versitio.com/release/7231146
is a remix of
track B2 @ https://discogs.versitio.com/George-Clinton-Paint-The-White-House-Black/release/595626
is this valid/possible to merge?

tarantoga
Is this a bug, or does it just take its time for the system to catch up?

Updates to the database aren't live in the Tracks views / features. It's a question of days rather than hours, as far as I've observed.
eg Kate NV - Для = For that's been submitted 3 days ago isn't. Not sure how often the database is harvested / indexed for the Tracks views but it's not daily.

Joseph_S
I'm still failing to understand what Composition means.

From: https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature
A ‘Composition’ is the conceptual blueprint for piece of music, for example the musical score, the lyrics, the chords etc. Every Composition will appear on one or more releases. ‘Tracks’ are the physical manifestation of a Composition on a release. If an artist writes one Composition that appears on two different releases, then that Composition has been released as two different Tracks on two different releases.

vinylgrading
Since yesterday I can hardly pictures successfully. Mostly results in 408 error. Too much server load due to this new feature?

Likely no. These are two entirely separate services, so one's performance shouldn't affect the other's.

_jules
Yes, a de-group / undo migration feature is needed.
Huge potential for vandalism when there's no way to correct groupings...

Absolutely. We have a way to undo at an level, but a -facing tool to do this will be available later.

at first sight, very useful to surface basic variation spelling of tracks can easily be edited

Ex: Livin' At vs Livin´ At

One thing I thougt of after looking at this new feature. The tracks are listed as "first appeared on" and i think it would be better if its worded something like "earliest dated submission on discogs it apears on" as it can be a number of things that make first appears on incorrect

1. The first release it appears on is not listed in the database
2. The first release it appears on have no known releasedate (then its listed as first appearing on the first release with a date listed here)
3. Someone entered a incorrect date when listing the release.
4. Probly more senarios

blindborges
A ‘Composition’ is the conceptual blueprint for piece of music, for example the musical score, the lyrics, the chords etc. Every Composition will appear on one or more releases.

Will a track be abel to belong to more than one composition. See mash ups for example.

Totally unnecessary thing! I just get use to edit database :( I'm against!

Diognes_The_Fox
Investigating now, thanks!

They work fine again.

Great for popular genres, but for Classical not so, since the system can't pick up title translations and variations, very common in classical music. For example the Debussy composition Streichquartett Op. 10.1 • Streichquartett among many, many others. Pretty pointless so far.

clanc
Great for popular genres, but for Classical not so, since the system can't pick up title translations and variations, very common in classical music

You can 'merge' identical compositions with different titles:

nik
You can do this, instructions are at https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264154-How-to-migrate-Tracks-from-duplicate-Compositions

I just begun to merge some of the compositions by Chopin, for starters.

blindborges
From: https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006294054-Overview-of-the-Tracks-Feature
A ‘Composition’ is the conceptual blueprint for piece of music, for example the musical score, the lyrics, the chords etc. Every Composition will appear on one or more releases. ‘Tracks’ are the physical manifestation of a Composition on a release. If an artist writes one Composition that appears on two different releases, then that Composition has been released as two different Tracks on two different releases.

It needs to be added that a Composition is not limited to one Artist, ie. several Artists can record their own versions of the same composition (cover version).

I just succesfully migrated almost all tracks for Tanita Tikaram. With only 131 Compositions in the databased, it was doable from the one complete view.

I'm wondering if "Twist For Tanita" should be migrated to "Twist In My Sobriety". The former appears on one bootleg 12" only where it's "Unofficial remix/rework of Tanita Tikaram's Twist In My Sobriety.". There is no writer info. My logic says this is the same 'Composition', even if the title has been changed, much like classical titles mentioned above. Can I take another 's word that it's the same, without an actual credit (I have no reason to suspect it's incorrect)? Obviously I don't know how widely accepted the note is since there's no owner data available any more for unofficial releases.

There is a track titled "Untitled" in The Cappuccino Songs which IMO belongs with the composition "I Like This".

Yesterday I tried with another Artist who has 560 Compositions and had big problems. Today I am having some problems but far less.

_jules
Yes, a de-group / undo migration feature is needed.
Huge potential for vandalism when there's no way to correct groupings...

Also a potential accidents, I just made a mistake and can't undo it. ;-(

This was asked up the thread a bit, but I didn't see a response. I've submitted a lot of lounge albums with no composition credits. Best approach would be to do Written-By [Uncredited], I suppose, to get them to the appropriate comp pages?

Save Changes
Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

when merging Drive/Driven by Yello. possibly because / is not escaped?

At least some of the error notices are... erroneous. I just merged/migrated 13 entries of Seal's "Kiss From A Rose", from the view with all Seal titles, and got an error. When I did a search for 'kiss' they appear merged. After a few minutes also the full view shows the merged title.

are credits for "Engineer, Programmed By" considered as composition?
[credits list: "Writing & Arrangement"]

i ask because not a composer of the title - he is "just someone" in the studio...
(things like this may cause confusion and conflicts when unexpereiensed try to fix this)

also the site list a Thieves In The Temple single)

and how do i add multilanguage tracklist to the regular tracklist?

https://discogs.versitio.com/Prince-Thieves-In-The-Temple-Ladrones-En-El-Templo/release/11786962

I've discovered an interesting situation regarding cover versions. https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/dd22507d-50e3-4df7-9a1e-450065476c94-Dont-You-Lie-To-Me . It has a few blues covers, and a fair few rock covers.

Supertramp did a live cover on two of their live albums, It Was The Best Of Times appear under this composition.

However, there was Hudson Whittaker.)
*EDIT: Sorry, I've now migrated all the tracks listed under this composition, so this composition no longer exists.

A similar situation exists for the cover by https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/125e460e-8ef4-49fb-a96b-abc9c7c0771d-Dont-You-Lie-To-Me .

Digging deeper, I'm finding other misattributed compositions of this track:
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/c8ebc90a-ddc7-4f1f-9a56-e93fb7ef6fe5-Dont-You-Lie-To-Me
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/b2f713a8-e01b-403b-8689-b0117031b441-Dont-Lie-To-Me (as "Don't Lie To Me")
- David "Honeyboy" Edwards - White Windows)
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/7c920ff1-2238-4eb4-9675-ffdf59368c3f-Dont-You-Lie-To-Me-I-Get-Evil
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/928aa8a5-3fc4-4044-b0cd-be515ffbdf1f-Dont-You-Let-To-Me (as "Don't You Let To Me")
- Albert King With Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session)
- Steve Marriott & The DT's (4) - Sing The Blues Live)
- Tampa Red)
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/200148ce-7db7-49df-8952-351a3c122e79-Dont-Lie-To-Me (as "Don't Lie To Me")
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/0fdc3af6-0216-42c9-8ff9-0e26a3f0521a-Dont-You-Lie-To-Me
- https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/6b5dd317-acdd-4e33-a98c-9f7c8b44831b-Dont-You-Lie-To-Me

This situation can be remedied for an artist like Supertramp, where it has this song listed on Supertramp's composition page under the two different compositions, one correctly attributed (*I've made this fix already). However, for David "Honeyboy" Edwards, his cover of the song is listed under only the one composition, which is misattributed. Under the current arrangements, it doesn't seem that this can be fixed.

_jules
Updates to the database aren't live in the Tracks views / features. It's a question of days rather than hours, as far as I've observed.

Or years. Husky Rescue - The Long Lost Friend
To take full advantage of this new feature, it would be nice to have all releases indexed.

edit: [RESOLVED-THANK YOU]

how do is change the main track?

if a unofficial release with a remix is responsible for the main track, that's misleading/wrong
how can i fix this?

context & screenshot here: https://discogs.versitio.com/release/1495272-New-Power-Mixes/history?diff=15&page=1

tarantoga
You can 'merge' identical compositions with different titles

Thx for the update! Seems like it's going to be a huge job though (a quick search shows an overwhelming amount of 'homeless' compositions, even relatively obscure ones tend to have many versions, e.g. https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/55f113d7-3811-4c99-b16e-769158f3045c-String-Quartet-No-2-Op-10-For-String-Quartet-And-Soprano, currently drifting on its own)

OLDFRIENDSFORSALE
how do is change the main track?

if a unofficial release with a remix is responsible for the main track, that's misleading/wrong
how can i fix this?

context & screenshot here: https://discogs.versitio.com/release/1495272-New-Power-Mixes/history?diff=15&page=1

You can find it here
https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264334-How-to-edit-Composition-Titles

It's actually just clicking "Edit" and click the "Title" afterwards. You can choose the title you want (If it's presented in the database)

slipmaxim
You can find it here
https://.discogs.versitio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006264334-How-to-edit-Composition-Titles

Huge Thank you / great! one "problem"
https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/6d000474-056d-4d50-855c-314671e686da-Sign-O-The-Times
solved :-)

(meanwhile i found the approx. 1000 typos of the "O" & sing/sign etc...
...that will be "fun" to fix them all - but that's a later task)

for the same page:
they say "First appeared on" ______ and if i follow the link it's the Yugoslavia pressing
can i make the US frist release to the credit?

and nonsense personnel (Amanda Thompson (2) Keith Rodway (2) Valentine Rohypnol / also from Bootlegs) have "composition by" credits but they have for sure nothing to do with the authorship

OLDFRIENDSFORSALE
and nonsense personnel (Amanda Thompson (2) Keith Rodway (2) Valentine Rohypnol / also from Bootlegs) have "composition by" credits but they have for sure nothing to do with the authorship

These credits should be just for the tracks on the CD.

Actually I can't see where the Valentine Rohypnol credit is written.

But assuming it's there and it is for the DVD what should be done with it? Can it be made unlinked?

(OK, it seems it appears in the video.)

On the artist page, titles of split releases that do not belong to the artist appear.
this CD, which are from the Augsburger Puppenkiste.

still not understand how this works, but for somebody that does, https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/5f22e043-2426-402b-84fe-1af1332fd90d-Ive-Decided-To--The-Airforce need to be combine

Noticed not all release pages have tracks showing as links Bee Gees - Idea

4theLuvOvMusic
still not understand how this works

In case people are still befuddled about the difference between a track and a composition (I'm not sure if that's what's confusing you), think of them like:
track ≡ release
composition ≡ master release

Composition contains all the versions of a song ever recorded, in theory. The problem is we have multiple compositions for the same track (using the analogy above, multiple "master releases" for the same "release"). We need to combine all those "masters" (i.e. compositions).

I've noticed something odd in investigating your conundrum. When I click on your first link, the image on the Bee Gees - Idea.

Silvermo
I think it would be great if, when locking at a composition/track, it was possible to se who the main artist of the release is. Especially on tracks that many different artists have recorded versions/covers of

+1

4theLuvOvMusic
still not understand how this works

i think i got it...

go to the Bee Gees profile

on the right hand side is a link: "TRACKS"

scroll to :
I've Come Back1 Track 1983
I've Decided To The Air Force 38 Tracks 1968
I've Decided To The Airforce 24 Tracks 1968
I've Decided To The Airforce = 空軍パイロット 2 Tracks
I've Got A Message To You 3 Tracks

checkbox all 3

ⓧI've Decided To The Air Force 38 Tracks 1968
ⓧI've Decided To The Airforce 24 Tracks 1968
ⓧI've Decided To The Airforce = 空軍パイロット 2 Tracks

scroll back to the top

there is "Editing 3 Compositions ▼"

hit the triangle and choose from the dropdown the "Migrate All Tracks..." option

a new window opens:

choose (on the right a mouseover "SELECT" btutton) the one which ist the most correct (first) release
[i selected "I've Decided To The Air Force 38 Tracks 1968"]

and "save changes" (with a explanation in the required field)

done

edit: (i did it already and) now the list is shorter = the tracks are merged

I've Come Back 1 Track 1983
I've Decided To The Air Force 64 Tracks 1968
I've Got A Message To You 3 Tracks

OLDFRIENDSFORSALE
done

Thanks. I will try next time myself when I come across similar

Fix & Foxi shows "0 Compositions 0 Tracks", even there is a album.

velove
Save Changes
Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

I have similar
JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
trying to merging Massachusetts Bee Gees

How do you separate tracks that have been accidentally put together?

Waldlicht
How do you separate tracks that have been accidentally put together?

=>

blindborges
We have a way to undo at an level, but a -facing tool to do this will be available later.

4theLuvOvMusic
I have similar
JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data
trying to merging Massachusetts Bee Gees

Same here when trying to migrate tracks for identical compositions by https://discogs.versitio.com/artist/192325-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-Chopin/tracks

Either that or:
"Minified exception occurred; use the non-minified dev environment for the full error message and additional helpful warnings."
or
"Can't convert undefined to object"
or
it just hangs infinitely, spinning the "saving" button.

Loving this feature so far and I can see the potential with a few kinks worked out.
Is there a way to unlink a composer that is not a composer of the track?
One example is this track: https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/ff4da205-eaae-4a96-8f11-3d24e0849095-The-Bonds-Of-Melody
DJ Noriken is the composer, but DJ 490 gets credited as well for some reason. I guess it is because of the generic composer credit on the album that it is originally released on, which gives a generic credit to DJ 490 and DJ Noriken, but it is solely DJ Noriken's track.

Another thing is, is it possible to link two tracks made by two different artists? A scenario I'm facing right now is that the same track is released under two aliases with different names. One example is a track called 最破 released both under the Karatechno alias and the Phrozen Crew 97 alias. They are the same composition, although one a bit shorter than the other, but I haven't found a way to link them yet.

tarantoga
it just hangs infinitely, spinning the "saving" button.

Keep hitting the Saving button it should go through eventually. Encountered different error messages while migrating larger compositions, even if it remains red the Saving button gets reactivated and hitting it 2 or 3 or 6 times ends up saving the whole migration.

_jules
Keep hitting the Saving button it should go through eventually. Encountered different error messages while migrating larger compositions, even if it remains red the Saving button gets reactivated and hitting it 2 or 3 or 6 times ends up saving the whole migration.

This used to work a few times, but mostly not.

good side effect is now you can spot easier incorrect spell tracks names that you might miss when looking at a whole long tracks list

I'm a little confused how this works, but I noticed that some tracks from bands I used to play in are compositions by 'Various' instead of the actual artist, is it possible to fix that?

Does anyone know a way to enter a release credit (written by, performer [original music by]) that should NOT be linking to any tracks in the track listing (presumably it's for incidental music that is not listed.)?

I don't think moving it to Notes is allowed. I've tried a naughty hack and entered a non existent track position but if there's a better way...

Violent-Power
compositions by 'Various' instead of the actual artist,

Check the releases and see if you can find where it comes from.

Is the song on a compilation with main artist Various but no track artist entered, for instance?

AmazingDiscoveries
Is the song on a compilation with main artist Various but no track artist entered, for instance?

No, all tracks have track artists...

Violent-Power
No, all tracks have track artists...

On all releases?

Check the main credits?

Maybe it's a bug if Various is credited to the Composition.

For example: https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/367746a7-3d1c-4303-817c-c3d6aefa8ce4-Extreme-Nose-Error
It's not all tracks from this release that have that though, it seems only songs that only appear on that particular release.

It kind of does the same thing with split releases, it credits the songs to both main artists instead of the track artist: https://discogs.versitio.com/composition/4a4423ea-ded9-4679-8939-65d7cf28c3ac-Stonecold-Snowball

Violent-Power
It kind of does the same thing with split releases, it credits the songs to both main artists instead of the track artist.

Correctly unfortunately
A big mess, especially with classic recordings, as these are often divided into two key works.

Karl_Urff
Correctly unfortunately

Why should track artists not override main artists?

The parts of index tracks are unfortunately also included in the database.
Examples: (part 1, part 2, allegro, andante, fast, slow, overture, pause, final ...)

Because there are no Composer credits, all the tracks on this: https://discogs.versitio.com/Various-dronsz/release/335681 are showing as Composed by Various

Here are Composer Credits
Streichquartett (1960) / Fünf Sätze Für Streichquartett (1961) / Streichquartett Nr. 4 (1971)

Karl_Urff
The parts of index tracks are unfortunately also included in the database.
Examples: (part 1, part 2, allegro, andante, fast, slow, overture, pause, final ...)

So why would (or should) an index track artist not apply to the parts?

"Untitled" is an obvious problem.

Track 12 on Disintegration is actually titled "Untitled".
And a prolific noise artist like Wolf Eyes, with *almost* a thousand untitled tracks is going be interesting to sort.

AmazingDiscoveries
So why would (or should) an index track artist not apply to the parts?

Because "Allegro" is not a track by a composer, but a name for the speed of a part of the track.