[mb-style] Disc catalogue numbers

[Bogdan Butnaru]

On 4/5/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/4/5, Chris Bransden <chris at whenironsattack.com>:
> > On 05/04/07, Chris Bransden <chris at whenironsattack.com> wrote:
> > > On 05/04/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > under the current system it would be:
> > CD1 =
> > NTCD354 + release date A
> > NTCD1952 + release data B
> >
> > CD2 =
> > NTCD38l + release date C
> > NTCD1952 + release data B
>
> Ok. Although I still feel we are losing information and that attaching
> the release number to the individual disc is less than "reliable" (to
> use your own words), I will probably seldom use the numbers, so I
> might as well enter them in a way that is meaningful for those who
> will actually use them.

There isn't much info lost. We don't have any system right now for
adding cat#s to boxes, so not doing this will actually loose more
info. We could add the cat#s in the annotation, but that's also lost
information because it's significantly harder to automatically-process
them that way.

On the contrary, if in the future we do get release groups or box sets
(and even now, if someone is interested in finding them), we can
search for CDs that share a Cat#. It'll need human intervention, but
it allows the computer to help.

(BTW, if I'm not in a hurry, I usually note in the annotation which
cat# belongs to what.)

-- Bogdan Butnaru — bogdanb at gmail.com
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