[mb-users] Box sets and earlier releases

[Fred Marchee]

While doing some shoppings half an hour ago I came to the same 
conclusion, add a new release and point to the first release.

By the way, it is not that much work, we only need a way to combine 
releases like this.

For instance the release 
"http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=709023", 
"http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=526663" and 
"http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=15310" the first two are 
part of a box set, the last is the "orginal" album.

Nice to know in this case is that although the record company promised 
that the "Shine On" CD's will never be released separately (they sounded 
better than the original releases) they released them a year or what 
later separately ;-)

Again, we really need a way to combine this release.

Fred (fred576)

Maurits Meulenbelt wrote:
> I would add a new release for the box set. I agree that it's a lot of 
> double work, but at the moment there's (as far as I know) no way to 
> copy a release in the database.
>
> Fred Marchee schreef:
>> When adding the 4 CD box "Les Miserables - L'intégrales" to 
>> Musicbrainz I discovered that there already was a release called "Les 
>> Misérables: Original French Concept Album (disc 1/2)"
>> http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=329735 and 
>> http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=36529
>>
>> While being the same CD the titles are different. I can rename the 
>> first two CD's to "Les Miserables: L'intégrales (disc 1: Original 
>> French Concept Album)" or as on the boxset: "Les Miserables: 
>> L'intégrales (disc 1: Version intégrales studio)" But that does harm 
>> to the original title.
>>
>> I can also add a new 4 CD release (as in "Les Miserables: 
>> L'intégrales (disc 1/2: Version intégrales studio)" and "Les 
>> Miserables: L'intégrales (disc 3/4: Version intégrales live)") and 
>> make a link to the first CD (which are still the same CD's) which is 
>> a lot of work for a release already entered.
>>
>> Looking at this problem a saw that the Pink Floyd Shine on boxset was 
>> added separate from the usual releases. So adding an extra release 
>> seems to make sense but still looking silly because it are the same 
>> albums.
>>
>> Had there already been a discussion about "also released as: ...." ?
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this problem or better a "challenge"
>>
>> Fred.
>>
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