Re: [mb-users] Should catalog numbers be capitalised?

caller#6 <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:18:06 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/21/2014 06:21 PM, Alex Mauer wrote:
> OK, fair enough; MusicBrainz *release entities* are about the releases 
> though, IMO. For an entity that represented the catalog itself or the 
> label, it's appropriate to normalize; but not for the release. 

If there's value to storing the as-on-cover catno in a text field (we 
already have it in cover art, hopefully), then I agree that no 
normalization should be done until we have a way to store both forms 
(as-on-cover and normalized).

But I'm not clear on what that value is.