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

lixobix <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:27:15 -0700 (PDT)
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tommycrock wrote
> On 22 September 2014 17:18, caller#6 &lt;

> callerno6@

> &gt; wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I guess where differences in the various ways of presenting the catno
> would
> reduce searchability or automated matching, depending on the particular
> version you had available
> 
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If I search for "WAP23", I get:

http://musicbrainz.org/release/0e7fb298-5286-4fb6-9cc1-2936799fddd5

If I search for "WAP 23", I get nothing.



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