[mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

[Bram van Dijk]

Just my 2 cents,

it seems to me that everybody agrees on 2 things:
A1. a couple of standard cd's wrapped together should not be duplicated. 
These should perhaps be called "bundles" instead of box sets.
A2. As soon as there is new material present in the box set, the whole 
set should be duplicated, the Pink Floyd "Shine On" set is an example 
everybody seems to agree on.

This leaves 2 cases:
B1. A nicely packaged box with a name of it's own, which only contains 
cd's that have been released before.
B2. A boxset which starts as case A2, but the cd with new material is 
later released separately, end thus reduces to case B1.


With the B cases we can do 2 things, either merge them into their 
previous releases, or duplicating those discs.
Arguments for merging seem to be:
M1. editing effort.
M2 we are not discogs.
While duplicating seems to be done also for 2 reasons:
D1. To not loose the information of the boxset.
D2. People owning the boxset may want to tag their audio files as being 
part of the boxset, while others owning the individual releases may want 
to tag them as such. Hence we need both.


I may have missed a few thing in all these discussions though.


IMHO the "we are not discogs" argument is not really valid, they 
duplicate every release event, which results in a few dozen dark sides 
of the moon, while this box set may in some classical thingies maybe 
duplicate a release 4 or 5 times? Usually only once though.
Using ARs to link the duplicates together makes also the editing effort 
relatively pretty low, as it is easy to check whether the two are in sync.



So I think we should just duplicate them, except in case A1, the bundles.


In a few cases the line between A1 and B1 may be pretty small, but I 
think if we define it by "A boxset has a name of its own, a bundle does 
not", we are doing pretty well.



Bram / jongetje