[mb-users] CompleteMozartEdition wiki page

[Steve Wyles]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Aaron Cooper wrote:

> On 11/10/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2006/11/10, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com>:
>> > Is there some way we can standardize the titles of the releases in
>> > this series?  Currently, half of the releases in this set are labelled
>> > with "Complete Mozart Edition, Volume x" while the other half isn't.
>> > Even in some volume the release titles flip-flop between including and
>> > excluding the "Complete Mozart Edition" (CME)  title.
>> >
>> > I could live with not having "CME" in the release titles, but I think
>> > it is important information - especially for people who want to search
>> > on "CME".  Do we then opt for adding duplicate releases with identical
>> > tracklistings but different titles?
>> >
>> > Any opinions out there?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > --
>> > -Aaron
>> 
>> First of all, I don't own any of these, so my opinion is very theoretical!
>> 
>> BoxSetNameStyle says if the albums are available separately, the box
>> set name should be omitted. I believe there have been a lot of
>> releases of at least several of these albums, I even think the CME
>> itself has been released under several different forms. So I would
>> avoid putting the box set in the release title, but I would put it in
>> an annotation.
>
> Thank-you for bringing up the BoxSetNameStyle wiki - I haven't heard
> of that one yet :)
>
> That sounds fair, perhaps sometime this weekend I will start going
> through the entries in MB and remove CME from the titles (since I'm
> pretty confident all of the volumes can be purchased separately).
>

Certainly for non classical works the trend is to list the boxset 
separately even if the work is available as separate albums.

o It'll have a different ASIN
o Different catalogue number
o Different release dates
o maybe different discids

etc......

Steve