[mb-style] multi-disc releases / box sets.

[Kuno Woudt]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:35:07AM +0200, Jan van Thiel wrote:
> 2008/6/26 Kuno Woudt <kuno at frob.nl>:
> > I would like to have an AR to group multiple discs of a single releases.
> > This would be intended as a temporary solution until we get proper
> > release and boxset support with NGS.
> >
> > Considering this, not all that much time should be wasted on it.
> >
> > In it's simplest form, I would suggest an AR like this:
> >
> > album B  "is part of a release with"  album A
> 
> What is the advantage over adding this as an annotation to each of the
> discs involved?

Machine readable.   In my current musicbrainz related scripts I'm
grouping multiple discs of a single release together based on their
release titles.  I have encountered many releases which don't neatly
fit the (disc 1, disc 2) or (title, bonus disc) schemes, these
releases confuse my script -- and instead of coding increasingly
complicated heuristics it would be cleaner if I had _some_ structured 
way to record this information with musicbrainz and be able to query
it.  

IMO, an AR for this is a simple solution which can be implemented now
with relative ease, and will be easily converted to NGS whenever that
materializes.

-- kuno / warp.