I asked the question first on MB Users because I felt it belonged there, but Don Suggested I ask here too, so here we go.
I had a feeling (but I may be wrong, since I couldn't find any written confirmation about this) that in classical MB admitted entering different releases (in terms of dates, country or publisher) as long as the recordings were the same (same track listing, same performers, same performance) and no "remixing" (i.e. no digital cleaning) was done. So that if an editor re-issued a cheap edition of a previous issue from a major editor, it could still be considered as the same album (but the Sony digitally reworked releases of Glenn Gould should be entered separately). Don answered that:
The current definition of what exactly is a release in MusicBrainz is a bit hazy. And the definition sems to move more and more toward "A release is an edition of an album". If we continue with this tendency we will need a grouping AdvancedEntity (like the AlbumObject in the ObjectModel) pretty soon.
Personally, in the current situation, I'd rather not enter a new release each time. I would have to re-enter almost all the classical albums I found in MB :-( The track listing will be the same most of the times (with small linguistic differences sometimes). What do other classical-minded users feel? -- Frederic Da Vitoria _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
