Re: [mb-users] Are different digital downloads different releases?

2013/1/2 RocknRollArchivist <[email protected]>

> Hello all,
>
> I'm generally very skeptic about "digital releases" and especially about
> their addition to Db.
> A well-known artist which performs during a half of century (e.g., Jerry
> Lee
> Lewis) has a thousands of recordings. Anyone who knows a little the
> combinatorics can compute (or simply imagine) the number of possible
> combinations from these thousands by 10, 12, 15, 20, etc. (not billions,
> but
> much more), and each one can be titled by anyone as a "digital release".
> When we will add to them the number of possible combinations of recordings
> by Jerry Lee with the ones by other rock 'n' roll artists such as Elvis
> Presley, Little Richard, Bill Haley, etc., we can imagine (not compute!)
> this infinity of possible "digital rock 'n' roll compilations".
> Do we need this infinity here in MB?
>

I understand the numbers, although I believe you are slightly exaggerating
them, but I agree that digital releases are probably going to be in much
bigger numbers than physical releases. But I am not sure we have a choice:
physical releases are probably going to disappear in a few years, already
some artists release their albums digitally before doing it physically,
some even do digital-only releases. So we can't simply say that we don't
include digital releases, this would mean excluding entirely a growing part
of all releases.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » -
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