An interesting case I've hit: band changed name from Eskimo Callboy to Electric Callboy, retroactively modified band name on cover art and streaming platform metadata. From MusicBrainz perspective, these are new releases, but streaming platforms seem to consider the GTIN to stay the same.
When looking up GTIN 886447866382, Harmony links it with https://musicbrainz.org/release/a4e1f53a-5866-4b35-9b4f-0b40f2e6d594 (original release attributed to Eskimo), with a warning prepended:
MusicBrainz: The API also returned 1 other result, which was skipped:
I think that the newer release should be used by default, and the original should at least show a warning about "status":"Withdrawn".
An interesting case I've hit: band changed name from Eskimo Callboy to Electric Callboy, retroactively modified band name on cover art and streaming platform metadata. From MusicBrainz perspective, these are new releases, but streaming platforms seem to consider the GTIN to stay the same.
When looking up GTIN 886447866382, Harmony links it with https://musicbrainz.org/release/a4e1f53a-5866-4b35-9b4f-0b40f2e6d594 (original release attributed to Eskimo), with a warning prepended:
I think that the newer release should be used by default, and the original should at least show a warning about
"status":"Withdrawn".