On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Calvin Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:16 +0300, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Calvin Walton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 09:15 -0400, Lemire, Sebastien wrote: > >> >> - Mini album >> > >> > This one might have some merit, as I see it quite a bit. For the time >> > being, I (and most others I know) have been assuming these are basically >> > the same as an EP, and marking them as such. Instead of adding a new >> > release type, might it make more sense to rename "EP" to "EP / Mini >> > Album", perhaps? >> >> This looks similar to the "Maxi-single" issue - something kinda in >> between our current types that we don't really know what to do with. I >> am not sure whether the right answer is to add new types, or to have >> "EP / Mini Album" and "Single / Maxi-single" (or whether maxi-single >> should be also EP) > > It's my understanding that "Maxi-single" refers just to the medium type > that the single was released on. Until around... 2001 or so? Japanese > singles were primarily released on 8cm disks. A Maxi-single just refers > to a single which was released on a 12cm disk instead - and nowadays, > that's basically all of them, as manufacturers have wound down their 8cm > CD plants.
Same applies to 7" vs. 12" vinyl singles, but even digitally, I've seen plenty of releases that claim to be "maxi-singles" (and that include something more than one single, say, maybe 3 b-sides). > -- > Calvin Walton <[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
