[mb-users] Same release, different titles

[jeff]

Not sure this is exactly what you are asking about, but I posted a similar question in the forum with regards to radio promotion CDs that are released by a different stations, ie. same tracks, different titles.



http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=637



The one response I got was not in favor of have the multiple listings.



On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:30:33 -0500, "Brian Schweitzer" <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> This has come up a few times in edits I've seen lately, so I thought

> I'd throw it out to the crowds.  :)

> 

> Given these two different situations, would you keep the releases

> separate or merge them?

> 

> 1) Release a: [untitled] (or epynonymous)

>     Release b: has a title

> 

> 2) Release a: has a title

>     Release b: has a different title

> 

> In both cases, a and b have identical tracklists, and tracktimes are

> identical.

> 

> My sense is, in case 1, merge the titled version into the untitled

> version.  In case 2, so release events can be properly attached to the

> correctly titled version, keep the two separate, and where possible,

> AR the two together.

> 

> Would you agree?

> 

> Brian

> 

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