r/MusicBrainz

It's a dream I have, just pick a real random song. Not by popularity no algorithm, I wanna hear the best and the worst cheers.

The studio Sunset Visitor brought the OST of their game to the streaming services.

https://www.reddit.com/r/1000xRESIST/comments/1uj6zsv/1000xresist_ost_out_now_on_spotify_apple_music/

* The OST had previously been released on Bandcamp and on Steam for purchase.

* The OST consists of one album and two smaller EPs. The EPs have exclusive remixes or variations which are not in the album.

* On the streaming services, the album got split into three volumes.

* As far as I know, no changes to the recordings have been made. They should likely all be merged / reused. However, the studio is now listed as an artist. This might just be how the streaming services work.

My three questions:

* Are there easy ways (e.g. online tools) to merge the two duplicates on MusicBrainz where the release group artist is "Various Artists"? The 2 release groups, 2 releases and ~90 recordings exist two times. https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=1000xRESIST&type=release_group&limit=25&method=indexed

* How to deal with the streaming releases? The volumes can be new releases under the existing release group. The big album had never been released in volumes as far as I know and the cover art changed. The two EPs likely don't get new releases on MusicBrainz – they seem identical to the existing EPs on Bandcamp and Steam (aside from the release date and adding the studio as an "artist" on all records).

* How to deal with the change that the releases on streaming services list the gaming studio as an artist?

I'm starting to get into collecting and organizing my own music instead of spotify.

I just found Navidrome and MusicBrainz Picard yesterday - and I'm trying to figure out how it all works, and what is important to deal with vs what is just preferences,
If I could ask some of that here...

1. I noticed Picard does lastName, firstName on some of the tags, and this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/MusicBrainz/comments/1hypjr3/prevent\_picard\_from\_doing\_last\_name\_first\_name/) was asking how to fix that - does the name order make an actual difference? or is it just personal preference? (I prefer first, last. But I don't see the last,first anywhere in the file, and I don't know what difference it would make for Navidrome)

2. Artists - Picard saves artist as "aFirst aLast, bFirst bLast & cFirst cLast" by default. Navidrome said something about having them listed seperatly as artists (I can click on the "Artist" box in picard, add a second artist, and copy each artist to a seperate line). Is it make a difference to manually do this? Is there a script to do this for me?

3. I have a few songs from foreign artists, and I would like to have both foreign spelling and english spelling saved (to search over, etc.). I'm assuming that this could be saved as a separate entry somewhere, but I don't know where it would need to be.