[mb-users] Where does the catalog number end?

[Fred Marchee]

Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
>> Fred Marchee wrote:
>>     
>>> Perhaps we
>>> need the possibility to enter more than one catalogue number on a
>>> release date?
>>>       
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Age Bosma <agebosma at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> You pointed out that the different catalogue numbers are for different
>> countries. In that case we need a different release event anyway to
>> specify the release country and possibly a different release date as
>> well. So there would be no need for multiple catalogue numbers for a
>> single release date/event from that perspective.
>> The cases where a multi-disc release has one catalogue number for the
>> release and two different ones for each disc is a different story.
>>     
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Chad Wilson <chad.wilson at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> I always add  multiple release events (even if with same date, country
>> and EAN) in this case. Same for the case where each disc has a separate
>> catalog number.
>>
>> I can't stand it when i see catalog numbers like "ABCD2355 /
>> 2324-3233-2" in the cat # field; although I'm not sure if that's a
>> personal opinion or more widely held.
>>     
>
> If you do it this way, you are loosing the fact that both catalog
> numbers are the same physical release. Isn't this a useful bit of
> information?
>
>   
Browsing through this discussion I will enter these release events as 
separate release events. It IS useful info that is getting lost and I 
had to browse to our CD collection again :-(

You guys do everything to stop me entering "Remixed by ...." 
relationships ;-)

 How about putting this in a styleguide?