[mb-style] RFC: Allow releases to appear in multiple release groups

Wieland Hoffmann themineo at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 19 17:02:56 UTC 2011


Hallo Alex Mauer:
> As the ticket I entered[1] was changed to request it, here is the RFC to 
> allow a release to appear in multiple release groups.
> 
> The ticket says:
> 
> There are a few cases where would be handy to allow a release to belong 
> to two or more release groups.
> 
> The cases I can think of:
> * double-album re-releases, where a previously-released album is 
> re-released in combination with another previously-released album 
> (Commonly 2 records released on one CD, or two records on one 
> reel-to-reel tape)
> * Alternate EP-length releases of an LP album[2], to allow them to be 
> listed under the artist's EP list as well as in the relevant album RG.
> 
> This RFC will expire on 2011-9-2

-1

Well, I like the idea but
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release,
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Group and
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Release_Group all need to be updated.

-- 
Wieland
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