[mb-style] ARs for labels

[Lukáš Lalinský]

Age Bosma  wrote / napísal(a):
> Lukáš Lalinský wrote:
>>
>> Release even will contain:
>>   - date
>>   - country
>>   - label
>>   - cat#
> 
> I might become too technical already but what did you have in mind for
> the format? Are you planning on limiting this input field in anyway?
> I've encountered various different formats including alphabetical
> characters, numbers, spaces and hyphens. Some range up to 14 characters
> in total. I think it's important to be able to enter the catalogue #
> exactly as how it's printed on the cover, including preserving spaces,
> hyphens and leading and trailing zero's. I've e.g. encountered one
> release which specifically added a leading zero before the barcode to
> use it as a catalogue #. It was important enough for them to print this
> catalogue # multiple times on the cover.
> I've also found different releases with multiple trailing zero's in the
> catalogue #.

In the database it's VARCHAR(255). I hope that's enough for every crazy catalog
number on this planet. :)

>>   - barcode (which can be either UPC or any EAN variant)
> 
> I think it's save to remove hyphens and spaces from the bar code, isn't it?

Barcodes usually don't have hyphens. And yes, I think they should be entered
without spaces. They should be simply a sequence of digits.

> Don't forget the SPARS code [1]! I haven't seen it being used on
> 'normal' releases a lot but it's regularly being used on classical
> releases. This can be realized with a dropdown which only has to contain
> three items: AAD, ADD and DDD.

This is nothing that would be unique for a release event, so no this time. If I
understand if correctly, these code should be attached to recordings which is
completely different level.