> So you're saying like this...?
> 
> Albums
> ------
> ID,Artist,Title,Label
> 
> Tracks
> ------
> Title,Length,TrackNumber,AlbumID
> 
> Where there is one album table and one track table, and each 
> track references back to the album that it is a member of?  
> I'm liking that... It doesn't make it easy to dig through the 
> database by hand, but in all likelihood, nobody will ever 
> need to do that.
> 
> Anybody think this is bad?

No. It is, as far as I and several books on database design are
concerned, 
one of the very few good ways to represent that particular set of data.

Normalisation (get a book about database design, google around, etc -
but 
learn about it.) is generally good. (Not always though.)

-S


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