On 17 Jul 2008, at 08:15, Kuno Woudt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21:45PM -0400, Aaron Cooper wrote: >> 1. How will we link 8-disc sets? Link discs 2-8 to disc 1? That >> might work... if you visit the first disc, it pulls the other discs >> from the AR and if you visit one of the other discs it pulls from >> disc >> 1 and all disc 1's related discs. > > I'm quite OK with linking all of them to the first disc.
I think linking all of them to the first disc is best, once you get past a few discs it would require a lot of queries to find all of the discs, whereas the order is usually reasonably easy to work out from the titles. http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=%22disc+10% 22&type=release&limit=25&adv=on also suggests that having a lot of discs isn't that uncommon! >> 2. Is it appropriate to link bonus discs with a release even though >> not all releases of a release came with the bonus disc? I guess it >> wouldn't hurt and would be interesting if you could see the different >> bonus discs that came with a release. > > This might encourage duplicates if certain people (people like me >_<) > want the AR to be accurate, and split up a release into a version with > and one without the bonus disc. This should probably be specifically > allowed or disallowed in the guidelines accompanying the AR. > > I don't think there is a way to link an AR to a specific release > event, > but this isn't the first AR to rub against that issue (think re- > releases > or remasters with different credits). I was thinking about it, how about: album B "is part of a release with {all releases of}" album A or something similar? That would allow people to link bonus discs while keeping the information about which discs always go together and which only come with some of the releases. Of course, it won't tell us *which* releases have bonus discs, but with the current system it's not possible without duplication. :( >> I'd definitely like to see something like this and I think it is a >> step in the right direction (grouping multiple-disc releases). > > Great, I feared I'd be the only one thinking this was a good idea :) A lot of people seem to be asking about it in IRC too. I haven't actually seen anyone say it's a bad idea. Nikki _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
