[mb-users] Multiple Country/Year Releases

Jason Bouwmeester jbouwmeester at gmail.com
Sat Oct 7 04:06:27 UTC 2006


Yeah that's what I figured, I guess I'll just have to setup the way my
folders are named slightly differently for those releases then.

Cheers.

On 10/6/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/10/6, Jason Bouwmeester <jbouwmeester at gmail.com>:
>
> > I'll go with the album in question:
> >
> > Art of Noise - The Best of the Art of Noise.
> >
> > In MB it is listed twice:
> >
> http://musicbrainz.org/album/a0bb2d20-1b46-490f-8a17-d823603fa36a.html
> and
> >
> http://musicbrainz.org/album/9dbc23e7-aeeb-4e1f-bfa0-19b07f74a489.html.
> >
> > These releases have different tracks, the latter was released in 1992.
> > Is there some way in MB that differentiates between these? As an
> > aside, but related, sometimes there are 2 or 3 releases of an album as
> > well, one US/Canada, one Europe and one Japan - which may be the same
> > or have 1 or more varying tracks.
> >
> > I was just wondering if there was a precedent for tagging these and
> > having the album title differentiated somehow, i.e. Art of Noise - The
> > Best of the Art of Noise (1988) and Art of Noise - The Best of the Art
> > of Noise (1992); or Art of Noise - The Best of the Art of Noise (UK)
> > and Art of Noise - The Best of the Art of Noise (USA).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Haeretik
> >
>
> MB uses the actual name of the release, so if both releases have the same
> name, they will have the same name in MB :-)
>
> See http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseTitle for the basics
> on how to format the release title,
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseEvent for informations
> on how to relate a release to a date and a country and
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseAnnotationStyle for any
> information which would not fit elsewhere.
>
> --
> Frederic Da Vitoria
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