[mb-style] Disc Numbers for singles

[John Carter]

Cristov Russell wrote:

>>I think single numbers should be kept, but differentiated from "disc" 
>>indicators in multi-disc sets.
>>
>>At the moment, I've been sticking them into the annotations, 
>>in the hope that another field will be formed.
>>
>>Instead of "(disc #)", could we have an alternate indicator? 
>>Just the number in parentheses, "(#)", maybe. This is so a) 
>>reorganising will be easier, and
>>b) so it is clearly a different sort of data to multi-disc.
>>
>>Sorry, this is all the "opposing argument" I could come up in 
>>five minutes...
>>
>>Michelle.
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>>
>
>Curious, is it explicitly stated somewhere not to or is it that because it's
>not explicitly stated that you can the assumption should be "don't do it"? 
>
>I'm of the opinion that there is no real reason not keep the disc number,
>whether we change the format or not as Michelle suggests. I don't agree with
>just (#) because it would just seem very odd to me in a listing but a word
>other than "disc" could work, I just can't think of anything appropriate
>right now. 
>
>Cristov (wolfsong)
>  
>

The possibility I can think of is (single 1), but I don't see too much 
of a problem with just using (disc 1).

There's a corner case (that I think Tarragon pointed out) of multi-disc 
singles, but that's a really odd one I think.  A straw poll - are people 
aware of many (any?) multi-disc audio singles that have *never* been 
released as individual discs (ie I'm not talking about single box sets 
here, or singles packaged with DVD videos).

Like I say, I'd lean towards using (disc 1) for singles & using the 
ReleaseType (ie album, single etc) to flag if it's a multi-disc album or 
multi-release single.  Corner cases can be noted in annotations.

John.