[mb-style] Re: RFC: DiscNumberStyle

Jason Bouwmeester jbouwmeester at gmail.com
Mon Oct 30 16:29:34 UTC 2006


> However, I have a few vinyl rips that of course have 2 tracks on one
> side and 2 or 3 more on the other side. On the Discogs site, these are
> listed as tracks A1, A2, B1 and B2. I posted a few weeks ago the
> mb-users list and the general consensus was to label them as (disc 1)
> and (disc 2) as if it were a 2 cd set. Technically this is incorrect,
> it is one disc so to speak, but it does make sense from a logical
> point of view. I haven't had any issues with entering things this way
> until recently when I tried to relate a Discogs URL to a (disc 2) of a
> vinyl B-side, the discussion going there is that a 2 track release is
> NOT the same as a 4 track release, even though they are on different
> sides of a vinyl release.

Looks like I have some fixing to do... /sigh :)

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Release

Next time I'll get someone to give me a URL if it's based in
discussion before I go ahead...

Still curious about the linking of disc 1/disc 2 to the same Discogs
page though.

Thanks!



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