[mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Release Title

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Feb 17, 2008 12:48 AM, Jim DeLaHunt <from.nabble at jdlh.com> wrote:

>
> It sounds like the problem you are describing is: There is a classical
> release R1, with a title T1 (e.g. "Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3"), and some
> publisher publishes that same set of recordings as release R2, with a
> slightly modified title T2 (e.g. "Symphonies 1-3").  MusicBrainz user A
> enters R1 into MB, using T1 as the basis for the ReleaseTitle. MusicBrainz
> user B has release R2, and wants to enter it into MusicBrainz. We want
> user
> B to recognise the MB record for R1 and reuse it, instead of adding a
> second
> MB record for R2 just to get the ReleaseTitle to exactly match T2.
>
> So just how often do we really run into this problem?  How often to
> publishers put arbitrary, non-meaningful differences into titles of what
> are
> the same recorded tracks?  How big a disruption is it to MB's database to
> have ReleaseTitles based on those different T1s and T2s?
>
> The bigger the real problem, the more important that we overrule the
> Release
> publisher's title with a MB-dictated title. Conversely, if it's not that
> big
> of a problem, I think we make MB simpler to use by using the Release
> publisher's title as the basis for our ReleaseTitle.


http://www.amazon.fr/Neuf-symphonies-coll-Si%C3%A8cle-Karajan/dp/B00004VLG7
http://cgi.befr.ebay.be/KARAJAN-BEETHOVEN-9-SYMPHONIES-COFFRET-5CD-NEUF_W0QQitemZ320206272259QQcategoryZ1051QQcmdZViewItemQQisPrinterFriendlyZ1QQpvZ1

Both are currently sold. Since the recording was probably in 1959, I suppose
there may have existed other packagings.

How should I enter these? And BTW, when a release is issued with different
covers in different countries (which happens too), what should we do? The
uniform title system (was it was actually ever enforced?) would have the
advantage of giving an easy answer to all these questions.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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