[mb-users] Label, cat known, but not the year

[Mika Heiska]

If I were to be uncertain of the release year, or just couldn't find any 
reference to it whatsoever, I'd plop the data in the annotation and hope 
that someone possessing greater knowledge than I comes and adds it up later.

~Mika

Johannes Dewender wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have this issue again and this time I don't get around it.
> 
> It seems quite normal for a re-release to include the original copyright 
> notice with the original production year on the cover. Especially for a 
> re-release that was probably made 10 years later or similar this is NOT 
> the release date.
> You can still gather lots of information from the cover. Actually 
> everything but the release date (sometimes the country is also an 
> issue). While you can leave out everything and also let the country be 
> unknown, you can NOT leave the year blank.
> 
> Just stating the original year of production is simply wrong.
> Just not adding the event is not a nice solution, because you have 
> information about a label, a barcode and a cat#.
> Do you just add this to the annotation then?
> 
> My current example:
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8689339
> 
> I could not find any date information about the re-release. It is a 
> quite rare release altogether. I found some people selling this on 
> marketplace, but no official source selling it and no date, other than 
> the one stated in the copyright/production notice.
> 
> --JonnyJD
> 
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