Hello, similary to the set AR I would like to see a series AR. Series have quite similar properties. I posted this on mb-users and got no comments, other than a misunderstanding on what a series is: http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-users/2008-September/018393.html
A series: The Return of Rock, Volume 1 The Return of Rock, Volume 2 .. Technically, we could use the exact same AR for a set and a series. However, the wording for the set AR does not permit such a usage and it would help the semantics later when there is an extra AR for series. It would also be possible to have a checkbox for "series" or a radiobox for set and series. Differences: Obviously, the word set should get changed to series then. The "optional/bonus" option doesn't make sense for a series. Sets consists of usually 2 or maybe 3 discs, series can consist of a lot more. This might make a difference, when we want to list all of them fast, see "problems". Wording: release A is part of a series, the next disc in the series is release B release B is part of a series, the previous disc in the series is A Additional rules: In cases of multi-disc releases that are part of the series: Only the first disc in a set should get linked to the first disc of the next release in the series. Problems: One might be interested to list all the items of a set and likewise all the releases in a series. It might not be cheap to list all 20 releases, because we need 20 queries, unless I am missing a feature that can do this as fast as selecting all rows with a certain property. It might not be uncommon, that we will have gaps in the data, meaning we have a bunch of releases in order and then there is this one release that is not in the DB, so we can't link it to the next bunch, creating two different series in terms of our logic. -- JonnyJD
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