It is time for me to dig into SPARS codes again.
Before reading this article it is advised to first read part 1 and part 2 of this series about SPARS codes.
One thing that noticed when digging into possible smells for SPARS codes is that sometimes I would see a code named CDC that was tagged as a SPARS code. As that letter actually isn't in the SPARS code specifications I was wondering what it was and how often it appeared in the Discogs database.
As it turns out this is a code specific to Sony Music that somehow indicates the format. There are more have these codes, which have been discussed several times in the Discogs forums already.
I updated my scripts to see how many of these Sony Music codes were in SPARS Code fields. Surprisingly few: I could find just 23 but lots of SPARS Code fields still need to be fixed, so I am expecting more to pop up once these get "fixed".
As always, scripts have been updated to check for these Sony codes in SPARS code fields (plus a few extra fixes for SPARS code fields).
Before reading this article it is advised to first read part 1 and part 2 of this series about SPARS codes.
One thing that noticed when digging into possible smells for SPARS codes is that sometimes I would see a code named CDC that was tagged as a SPARS code. As that letter actually isn't in the SPARS code specifications I was wondering what it was and how often it appeared in the Discogs database.
As it turns out this is a code specific to Sony Music that somehow indicates the format. There are more have these codes, which have been discussed several times in the Discogs forums already.
I updated my scripts to see how many of these Sony Music codes were in SPARS Code fields. Surprisingly few: I could find just 23 but lots of SPARS Code fields still need to be fixed, so I am expecting more to pop up once these get "fixed".
As always, scripts have been updated to check for these Sony codes in SPARS code fields (plus a few extra fixes for SPARS code fields).
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