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

I supposed he was referring to compilations. I guess low-cost "digital"
compilations could become more frequent because all the editor would have
to do would be assemble any number of often public domain recordings and do
a little of internet marketing. I can understand why RocknRollArchivist is
reluctant to add such releases.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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Le 2 janv. 2013 16:37, "Kuno Woudt" <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> On 01/02/2013 12:24 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote:
> > 2013/1/2 RocknRollArchivist <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[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.
>
> I don't understand the numbers as you both described them.
>
> When a new album comes out, often with physical releases a CD has
> different barcodes and release dates in various countries.  For a new
> pop album I expect there to be at least a dozen different physical
> releases we could enter into musicbrainz.
>
> Whereas with digital the releases in each region are usually the same.
> On occasion a UK version of an album on iTunes is different from the US
> version, but usually they're identical.  So, for digital releases we
> would have separate entries for iTunes, Amazon, Zune and 7digital but
> not for the UK iTunes, US iTunes, NL iTunes, because those are all
> perfectly identical.
>
> There are only a few major online retailers, so I would think digital
> downloads reduces the amount of releases compared to physical.
>
> (Again, I'm only saying that digital releases should be kept seperate
> when there are actual differences between them -- different cover art,
> or different audio, digital booklet included or not, stuff like that).
>
> -- kuno / warp.
>
>
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