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Comment by piperswe | Hacker News Reader

> Edits on MusicBrainz spend 7 days in limbo after they're created

Not all edits, just major ones (e.g. name changes). Minor edits usually get auto-accepted.

Faster if someone votes on the edit, which you can request on their IRC/Discord/Discourse if there's a need (like larger or dependant edits).

And just so people know, their edits were applied in March this year...

Edit #122458416 - Edit medium Vote tally: 0 yes : 0 no Status: Applied Opened: 2025-02-24 00:02 UTC Closed: 2025-03-03 01:00 UTC For quicker closing: 3 unanimous votes If no votes cast: Accept upon closing

Actually, and quite interestingly, it looks like their second edit (to separate the tracks) failed: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/122458694 Status: Failed dependency This edit failed either because an entity it was modifying no longer exists, or the entity can not be modified in this manner anymore.

Clicking through to the CD release we can see that it indeed still has those two tracks combined https://musicbrainz.org/release/af4dc096-65d2-4cc5-9e0c-176d...

It did fail, because as you see, that edit's track 5 says "Rainclous" ... but https://musicbrainz.org/edit/122458416 was in play to change that to "Raincloud"... so https://musicbrainz.org/edit/122458694 failed because two edits wanted to change the same medium at the same time.

They got the change made later in https://musicbrainz.org/edit/122791893

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