[mb-users] Add as separate albums or a box set?

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2011/8/1 Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com>

> >>> I'd agree.  I think it has to be entered as a box set if that's how
> it's
> >>> sold.  If the discs are sold individually, they'd also get separate
> >>> releases.  But I'm not sure how to relate a box of four complete albums
> >>> to
> >>> their original releases -- maybe annotations for now?  Is the "later
> >>> issue
> >>> of" AR still valid?
> >>
> >> they are linked together through the use of the same recordings. imho
> >> that's enough.
> >
> > I don't think so. The box contains copies of the whole releases. I
> > believe recording somehow that this is different from a simple
> > compilation (where tracks could be missing or could be in a different
> > order) is valuable. I guess this is going to happen often, during the
> > few years when the CD will be dying. But maybe we should just record
> > it in the annotation for now, no use creating a new AR if this is to
> > be the only occurrence.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "only occurrence".  Surely you know of
> many box sets like this that contain whole albums?  Am I missing
> something?
>

No, I don't, but that doesn't mean much :-) Since you seem to know a lot of
them, then maybe an AR would be useful, then.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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