[mb-users] an album has to have bonus tracks to be a remaster?

[Chris Bransden]

On 02/10/06, Brian Gurtler <brian at gurtler.net> wrote:
> my example is an album and it's remaster.
>
> why have a remaster AR if you can't use it?

well, the vinyl/cassette/etc versions will all have been differently
mastered also (to wit - all different formats have to be seperately
mastered - a lot of "remasters" in the 80s were just remastered for CD
out of neccesity as they couldn't use the vinyl master on that format,
not without it sounding total, gash anyway), yet traditionally we have
not added seperate releases for the vinyl/cassette unless the
tracklist differs.

the PUIDs will be different, yes (will they, though? i know they
'sound' different, but i'm not aware of what thresholds PUIDs work
with), but there's nothing wrong with more than one PUID being on the
same track. same with CDIDs.

IMO they remasters should all be merged into the same release,
assuming the tracklist is different

the only time i'd use the remastered AR is to connect 2 releases of
differing tracklist which contain a remastered release within them (eg
the remaster probably has bonus tracks). other than that, you're going
to be tagging with the same tracklist anyway (we don't say "remaster"
in the ReleaseTitle) so i don't see the benefit?

obviously NGS would change all this.