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

[Mark Trolley]

"etc." leaves it a bit open for interpretation though. I went with Official
after all, the more I thought about it the more I felt that was right.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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