Calvin Walton-2 wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 05:20 -0700, jacobbrett wrote: >> >> > On 06/01/2011 10:00 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: >> >> >> I was wondering if it would be useful to adopt something like >> [none] >> >> >> to show the difference between "this has no cat#, and I know that" >> and >> >> >> "I don't know if this has a cat#". Any opinions on the matter? >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Are there examples of a Release that has a label but not a cat#? >> >> > If so, +1 >> >> >> >> Quite common for small independents. For example: >> >> >> http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/99f25dd0-837b-3682-bbb6-132b4255691e >> >> (there are just 3 releases there, but I just remembered it so I still >> >> have to merge them). Several labels on the same album, some with cat#, >> >> some without. > >> I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but I note that I've edited at least >> five >> releases (usually small, independent) that had no printed barcode, but >> one >> attributed to them online somewhere (Amazon, other retailer or label). > > Yeah; in a some of these cases the "barcode" allocated this way seems to > be for use in a particular store only, as an internal tracking number. I > don't think it would be particularly useful to record this type of > barcode, unless you can find the same number in use at multiple stores > (Try just googleing the barcode number, and see if what else comes up.) > > -- > Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > The latter was true in all cases, as I recall.
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