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December 20, 2008 21:07

Is it an idea to make the Release number field a mandatory field?
I know quite a bit about Beatles releases and usually you can tell a lot from the release number. Such as country, 1st release etc.

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  • February 23, 2009 18:10
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Hey.
I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd give my opinion on it anyway.
Just to be clear, I'm assuming release number = barcode number?
I certainly understand what you are saying if you claim that the release number can give you a lot of useful information.
However, I want to make a side note. One of the cornerstones, so to speak, of my collection of music are CDs from underground groups who hand out their promo CDs at concerts, or offer them for sale on their website from their own account.
That is a large part of my collection that does not have a barcode number at all. In your proposal, what would be the correct method to add these types of CDs to the catalog?

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February 26, 2009 00:38

As far as I know you cannot tell from a release number which releases this is. You can recognize things from a release number, but that is not yet certain.
and maybe I'm a bit older but on the CD I need a very big magnifying glass to read those songs.

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March 03, 2009 22:25

Release number does not necessarily have to be the barcode. I started from vinyl and not CDs. With vinyl there is quite a bit of information in it. For example, if I look at the Beatles album Sgt Pepper you see that the original first releases had release number PMC 7027 for the mono version and PCS 7027 for the stereo. Released again in the early 1970s, but with a red label. The versions that appeared in the late 1970s can be recognized by the number 5C 062 -04177 and the 1980s issues at 1A 062-04177.
As for CDs: Many of them mention this and are part of the barcode. Sometimes not: an example is Stranger in my house by Cyril Lance. Barcode is 3448969242623 and the release number is DFGCD 8558 . Self-released CDs often also have a release number. For example, I have some CDs from the Belgian group De Nieuwe Snaar. They have the number Snaarplaat 02 or Snaarplaat 03. You could also enter them as the release number.
In short: if there is really no track on a CD outside the barcode, then I would go for the barcode; in any other case the extra number.

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