[mb-style] ARs for labels

Age Bosma agebosma at home.nl
Wed Nov 8 22:48:44 UTC 2006


Lauri Watts wrote:

> 
> Secondly,  I would like to suggest the term catalog instead of
> discography, when referring to labels.
> 
> It's a much more common term in the industry, and to the public, and
> on the rare occasion you can get hold of one from the company (some
> small ones still print 'em on paper, I recently found in my cellar a
> printed HMV CD catalog from about 1983, when it still fit on about 20
> pages :) or find it on their website, that's nearly always the term
> used.  Discography to me is strongly associated with a particular
> artist, or perhaps genre, across labels, while Catalog is strongliy
> associated with a particular label.
> 

I completely agree. The codes on a release aren't called 'catalogue #' 
for nothing, imagine we have to start using 'discography #' instead of 
it in MusicBrainz ;-)

Yours,

Age



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