Just a function question.
Let’s say I have a Bootleg album which will never be “identified” by Roon. If I set “Bootleg” to Yes when I edit the album, will Roon continue to try and identify that album? Or, will the identification processes know that it will never identify that album and skip it?
I think this was discussed before, and I think the conclusion was that it is not excluded from identification.
Personally I don’t think it should be excluded based on this because there are bootlegs that do have entries on MusicBrainz.
There are different kinds of bootlegs, some are properly (if illegally) released, may be accepted by band culture (like Grateful Dead, but they are by far not the only one), some are initially bootlegs but later become canonized by the artist (as happened, e.g., to many Sonic Youth live shows), etc.
And then there’s my own taping off a radio live show or even my own dabbling with recording that is never released at all (nor should they be to protect the innocent) and are not actually bootlegs because they are original works. Yet they will never be identified.
Hence I think that there need to be two separate switches as long as identification attempts are so costly to performacne, one for Bootleg, which is informative, and one for “don’t identify”