[mb-users] Not an Amazon [IMPORT] means United States release?

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8-Jul-08, at 11:55 PM, Grant wrote:
>
> > If my CD seems to match an Amazon CD (artist, release title, label)
> > and Amazon doesn't list it as an import, should I enter the country as
> > United States?  Also, I noticed there's an Unknown Country option so I
> > guess the country actually is optional?
> >
> > - Grant
>
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AmazonRelationshipType
>
> Don't use Import ASINs if you can help it.  Try to find the same ASIN
> on another Amazon domain by switching the .com to .co.uk or .de
> or .co.jp.  And no, do not set the release country to USA or use the
> release date from an Import.
>

Aaron, I guess you didn't read Grant's question carefully enough! I
understood Grant's question as "If it does not say Import, is it US?" My
answer: AFAIK Amazon.com never writes 'US release", so you'll have to do as
if no "Import" meant "US". But it does not mean the first release was US,
only that you found a US release.

The country is optional if you have a CD in your hands but don't know where
it comes from (you could have bought it second hand, or stolen it), all the
info you can enter in MB is the label/catalog/barcode/format (which is
valid). I can't see why you would enter the date without the country, but
maybe someone has an idea.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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