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

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

Although technically MB Releases are discs, I feel that a real-world
release is virtually made of the individual discs (what MB calls
Releases, are you still following me?) so that the ReleaseStatus
should stay the same on all the Releases of a release. By now, you
should be completely lost :-D

If by any chance you caught my meaning, be warned: This is only my
point of view, I may be completely wrong!

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Mark Trolley <marktrolley at gmail.com> wrote:
> "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!

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Frederic Da Vitoria