[mb-users] Question about inconsitencies in track naming

[Chris B]

we do support vinyl :) a musicbrainz 'release' can be anything. the only 
issue is how we deal with 'sides' of other media - eg vinyl/tapes. it seems 
the general consensus is a music brainz 'disc' represents one 'item' of 
media (eg one lp/12"/7"/etc, one tape, one 8track :P). that leads to a 
certain amount of duplication, with the vinyl release of a lot of 2xLP 
releases needing a seperate entry on top of their (often) single CD release.

i'd argue that having them seperate is worthwhile since the act of swapping 
the LPs affects the dynamics of a release quite a lot (so does flipping the 
individual LPs infact) to the extent that I have a lot of single CD releases 
that have a period of silence in the middle to give the impression of two 
distinct 'halves' of music.

however maybe we could represent this better in the annotation, rather than 
a seperate release. but then, a lot of vinyl releases have/don't have bonus 
tracks, so would need a seperate entry anyway, so you know, whilst we're 
there :)

of course, if a release was first released one one individual peice of 
vinyl, then it wouldn't need a seperate entry anyway, and you can just add 
the first release date to the CD entry. HOWEVER, *all* vinyl releases are 
mastered differently to CD releases, so you could argue that they should all 
be seperate.

sorry i'm going massively off topic here... :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Björn Krombholz" <fox.box at gmail.com>
To: "General discussions about MusicBrainz" 
<musicbrainz-users at musicbrainz.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 4:16 AM
Subject: Re: [mb-users] Question about inconsitencies in track naming


On 6/18/05, Daniel Bumke <danielbumke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not just use the "is the same as" (or something) AR relationship
> to denote that they are identical. Then it doesn't matter that the
> names aren't the same.

There is no such relationship.
There is only A "is the earliest release of" B, but this one is almost
useless atm, because most "earliest releases" are not listed in MB,
because they had been released on vinyl.

And using MB for tagging your oggs would become a pain, you had to
check and correct all those tags. It would be easier doing it all by
hand then.

Björn 'Fuchs' Krombholz

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