[mb-users] Best format for Billboard bootleg compilation

[Jason Bouwmeester]

Unfortunately it's not a CD set, just one huge compilation of the top
100 for each year from 1956-present. Hence my dilemma.

~jb

On 7/25/06, Ryan McCabe <ryan at numb.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:02:38PM -0600, Jason Bouwmeester wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I have a bunch of Billboard Top 100 of (year) that I was going to add
> > to the Musicbrainz database, I do know of quite a few people that have
> > the same compilation. Anyways, it seems that the maximum allowed
> > tracks for Add Release is 99. I tried adding the 100th track
> > afterwards but had no success, 100 came up as invalid track number.
> >
> > Example album: http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=536177.
> >
> > I've added a bug for this in the bug report database
> > (http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/1919), but I was thinking maybe I
> > should be splitting these into CD sized chunks (i.e. 5 CDs/100
> > tracks). The only thing with that though is then the track number is
> > no longer the top 100 rank number.
> >
> > Comments, concerns, suggestions?
>
> There should be a 1:1 mapping between number of discs and number of
> releases entered. So if it's a 5-CD set, you should enter each one as a
> separate release titled "Billboard Top 100 of Y (disc N)."
>
>
> Ryan
>
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