[mb-users] Guess I'll boycott adding release events

[Johannes Dewender]

> Date
> I get from whatever an AMZ search brings up, and it must be wrong the
> majority of the time since my CD likely doesn't correspond to the AMZ
> one.
You can put the barcode in the search window to find a release with it. 
When the tracklist and cover are the same at amazon, then the chance 
should be high enough that this is the correct release.
However, if you can't find a date, then you are screwed, because you can 
only give the production date mentioned on the release. Would be nice 
when the date would get optional somewhen, but this is non-trivial, I 
read somewhere in the bugs.

> Country I have no idea and no reasonable way of finding out.
Well, if you find an amazon domain where it is not marked as import in 
any way and a date is present. If you search with the barcode, like 
mentioned above, then you found one release country for your release. 
It is quite possible though, that there are more. However, you should 
be careful with label and cat#, because this can change in different 
distributions, even when the barcode is the same sometimes.

> Label is nearly as bad as country.  There are always at least 2
> labels printed on the CD, sometimes more, and MBz has further
> granularity within most labels.
If you really can't find out the label or are unsure, just put some info 
in the annotation about where you found what and don't put it in the 
event.

> Catalog number and format I always 
> know for sure, and usually the barcode too.  Strangely though, those
> are optional and the ones I don't know are required.
The label is actually optional, too. The only thing that is not optional 
is the year. Or is it the case, that you can only put a cat#/barcode 
when you put a label? If so, this should change.

> Overall, it's time-consuming and (worse) non-productive to enter
> release events into MBz at this point.  I'm always ready to change my
> mind and if anyone can talk me out of this I'll revert.>
> I do keep a spreadsheet record of each of my CD's catalog numbers and
> a label guess because that is definitely important information.
I understand quite well, that adding release events is quite hard work. 
Not adding information is better then adding a lot of wrong 
information. However, it should get more easy to just add partial even 
tinformation.

--JonnyJD
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