I wonder if I should edit the ticket and remove the maxi single for there then send a RFV for mini-albums only. Perhaps making maxis a subtype of single would be better, since non-asian artists release singles and maxis with the same name so would be bad to categorise them separately.
On Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 19:14, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:23 AM, drsaunde <drsau...@hotmail.com > (mailto:drsau...@hotmail.com)> wrote: > > Mihai Spinei wrote > > > Hi, > > > > > > In Asia, particularly Japan and South Korea, CD albums which have up to 6 > > > songs are called Mini-Albums, and 8+ songs - Full Albums. In iTunes > > > Mini-Albums are set as EPs. For reference, the Japanese wiki has this > > > entry for Mini-Albums: > > > ... > > > Also, singles are usually up to 2 songs. Sometimes, in Asian countries, > > > singles which contain 4 songs (2 songs + their karaoke versions) are > > > called just singles. Singles with more than 2 songs are called > > > Maxi-Singles, apparently in West as well: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxi_single > > > > Are these releases currently in the same release group with other releases > > that aren't Mini-albums or Maxi-Singles? > > > > if so then I don't think we should be diluting our release group concepts > > due to regional termanology (like for example in Canada some cassette > > singles were called Cassingles (i know genius right) I wouldn't want > > regional termanology like that causing separate release groups for stuff > > that would otherwise be the same) > > > > I'm not against adding something like this, but it should be at a release > > level and not release group > > I think this isn't a problem with mini-albums. It probably is with > maxi-singles though, that's certainly true - so adding mini-album only might > be the best option. > > -- > Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > (mailto:MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org) > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > >
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