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Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

albummaster — Sat, 6 Jun 2020 07:04:29 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 06/06/2020 11:04

Spyglass wrote:

It's likely that the problem is that BEA is short-handed and has more important things to worry about: site updates, bugs, and the ongoing discussion about genres.

Spot on... BEA is not a commercial enterprise and all development is done by a single person (which leads to a lot of bottlenecks, especially when day job gets in the way). On the data side of things, the site is greatly assisted by numerous other people contributing edits (some of these people are not active on the forums). Data integrity is extremely important to the site, and apologies if edits have been missed over the years (I take great care to personally vet as many as possible but other data mods are able to do this as well). Sometimes when albums are merged, the picture becomes unclear as there's multiple sets of edits to sift through. The album art for Star Wars wasn't replaced intentionally, when an album is merged the original album takes priority so I had to re-look it up (in hind sight, I should have just copied it from the history). Sorry to CA Dreamin if edits have been missed/overlooked or not implemented. I always seem to be doing things in a bit of a hurry as there's so much to keep on top of (what you see on the forums is tip of a *very* big iceberg with all the background work that goes on, and day job is 60 hours a week right now, on top of BEA) so sometimes need a bit of a nudge/reminder if something needs doing.

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

Spyglass — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 18:17:04 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 06/05/2020 22:17

Why was the image I uploaded changed? I used the right one, and now the image used for the Star Wars soundtrack has an obvious vinyl mark that distorts the picture. I already had a proper image like this:

EDIT: Was it a problem with merging the two albums? If that's the case, I'm reuploading the original image.

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

Spyglass — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 18:09:56 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 06/05/2020 22:09

Which albums?

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

CA Dreamin — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:45:44 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 06/05/2020 20:45

Spyglass wrote:

Oddly enough, I just came back to the forums 1 second after you posted.

Albummaster just changed the issue per my request and inquiry. It's likely that the problem is that BEA is short-handed and has more important things to worry about: site updates, bugs, and the ongoing discussion about genres.

I asked this question because I'm not very versed in BEA site policy.

Maybe. Any user can add albums to the site, and edit details on an album already on the site, but they have to be approved by moderators to become permanent. The moderators are always busy approving new albums to the site and all their affiliated data (release dates, tracklists, cover arts, etc.), which has to be fact-checked. I see you have a ton of mod points, so you know how it goes. However, once an album's data has been considered correct, it's tricky to amend afterward from my experience. That's great you got this soundtrack album's info accurately updated but I can think of two other albums which I've attempted to edit the tracklists, only for them to get ignored. I understand, getting new albums onto site with accurate info is a much higher priority.

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

Spyglass — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:23:04 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 06/05/2020 20:23

CA Dreamin wrote:

Spyglass, I've argued this track-listing topic at least three times over the years. There are misleading tracklists on the site, but BEA doesn't care enough to change them [shrug].

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

CA Dreamin — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:19:50 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 06/05/2020 20:19

Spyglass, I've argued this track-listing topic at least three times over the years. There are misleading tracklists on the site, but BEA doesn't care enough to change them [shrug].

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

Spyglass — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 10:06:37 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 06/05/2020 14:06

Sweet.

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack

albummaster — Fri, 5 Jun 2020 05:41:37 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 06/05/2020 09:41

The original release should always be listed on BEA (which is the release you've just added). The existing version on BEA was a re-release, so the album has been updated and merged.

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack

PurpleHazel — Thu, 4 Jun 2020 23:07:11 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 06/05/2020 03:07

Spyglass wrote:

I found that this originally posted version of the Star Wars 1977 soundtrack has this expansive tracklist:

But the original version is shorter, and is the version I've heard, and has this separate tracklist:

The one I just posted represents the original release, while the first version added to BEA carries a very different and much longer tracklist. Should both be here, or should one of them be deleted? By preference, I'd prefer if the original 1977 soundtrack which I just added stays on BEA because I've heard that version. I'm not entirely sure what the policy is on releases. It seems to me like both are two very separate albums anyway.

Technically, the later version should be deleted. But with lesser-known albums (and I'd include all movie score albums in this category), mistakes like this aren't that unusual.

Re: Star Wars Original Soundtrack

RoundTheBend — Thu, 4 Jun 2020 22:38:44 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 06/05/2020 02:38

Spyglass wrote:

I found that this originally posted version of the Star Wars 1977 soundtrack has this expansive tracklist: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=4316

But the original version is shorter, and is the version I've heard, and has this separate tracklist: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=70488

The one I just posted represents the original release, while the first version added to BEA carries a very different and much longer tracklist. Should both be here, or should one of them be deleted? By preference, I'd prefer if the original 1977 soundtrack which I just added stays on BEA because I've heard that version. I'm not entirely sure what the policy is on releases. It seems to me like both are two very separate albums anyway.

The original release should be the release on the site.

Also while you bring this up, it's my greatest problem with the reboot of the "new" movies- it lacks the great music of the 4-6 ones... and I suppose the Sith theme from the 1st is very good too.

But Rey's theme is incredibly lame.

Star Wars Original Soundtrack (UPDATE)

Spyglass — Thu, 4 Jun 2020 13:17:41 GMT

Author: Spyglass

Posted: 06/04/2020 17:17

I found that this originally posted version of the Star Wars 1977 soundtrack has this expansive tracklist: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=4316

But the original version is shorter, and is the version I've heard, and has this separate tracklist: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?b=70488

The one I just posted represents the original release, while the first version added to BEA carries a very different and much longer tracklist. Should both be here, or should one of them be deleted? By preference, I'd prefer if the original 1977 soundtrack which I just added stays on BEA because I've heard that version. I'm not entirely sure what the policy is on releases. It seems to me like both are two very separate albums anyway.