[mb-users] help style question about bonus track

Aaron Cooper cooperaa at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 17:32:05 UTC 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria
<davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM, George Hartzell <hartzell at alerce.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > The Album "The Dark Years" by 17 Reasons Why
> >
> >   http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Years-17-Reasons-Why/dp/B00000AEBQ
> >
> > has a 12th bonus track.  The track is 15:40 seconds long, the song
> > starts at 11:02 and is an acoustic/solo-voice&piano version of
> > Splinter (track 4 on the album).
> >
> > Amazon just calls the track "Bonus Track One".
> >
> > I added a track yesterday with the title "hidden track" and tried to
> > set the time to 15:40 but the server threw up on it.  I've cancelled
> > that edit (since it's time field was a bogus -1) and would like to Do
> > The Right Thing.
> >
> > I can't find any wiki guidance on Bonus Tracks.
> >
> > What's The Right Thing?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > g.
> >
>
> Are you sure you are right just to add the bonus track. Should this not be a
> separate release? It seems the 11-track and the 12-track releases both
> exist.

We add separate versions.  So if both exist, you should add a new
12-track version.

-Aaron



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