[mb-users] Bonus discs: "Official" or "Promotion"?

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Mark Trolley <marktrolley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should a bonus disc included with an album (or in the case of the one I'm
> looking at now the deluxe release of an album) be considered an "Official"
> EP or a "Promotion" EP? I have entered them before as "Official" but I'm not
> sure if that's right now since they are not available on their own, but can
> only be obtained by buying the album they come with. With the release I'm
> looking at now, the deluxe edition of Agony & Irony by Alkaline Trio it
> feels like I should be using "Promotion" since it's being used as a selling
> tool to get you to buy the deluxe edition instead of the regular edition.

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ReleaseStatus :

"A give-away release or a release intended to promote an upcoming
official release. (e.g. pre-release versions or releases included with
a magazine, versions supplied to radio DJs for air-play, etc)."

I don't think bonus disks would fit the definition!

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria