My thinking is this, regarding the whole flag thing now:
(For the purposes of entering on site for the time being, and until a better method arrives)
Go by the label manufacturer coupled with where you bought it - If someone in Europe bought a an EU disc - enter it as EU, until someone comes along and says they bought one in Aus, that changes it to International (all details being otherwise identical).
Just be sure it isn't a duplicate according to bar-code and cat number (other distinguishing features notwithstanding).
(Quite possible that a disc was made in EU for external market alone (America / Aus etc.) = export, in which case, it would either be listed as the only market it was available in (i.e. America), or, if in others too= International (again!)... but I don't think export copies exist in the same way they did for vinyl, that is, not bespoke, made for a specific market, and distinct from that country's native press, or the country of manufacture's own press)
Go with what you know, and best guess, and if someone else says otherwise, then we change it if need be.
One day, we'll get to the bottom of all these shenan-again-and-agains that the music industry has gotten up to over the years, and these albums will count as a trail of breadcrumbs we can trace their dealings through.
I've had advice from MODS to list them both ways Jasper. The last official word by PM (about a year ago) to me from the MODS was to list everything Made In Australia as Australian. This of course is in direct contrast to the guidelines which would indicate CDs such as this to be listed as "International". It is far too confusing and yesterday I listed this CD as a European release when technically it is an "International" release due to the fact it was released in Australia. These cases are more difficult though as they are in fact the very same "identical" release (the EU release is the Australian release) and it is not a locally made version with the same details. So proving these were in fact released here is near impossible (without extensive research) and the fact that I have bought it here is often, in my experience, not a convincing enough argument. So I have given up on that approach altogether.
Now, after entering close to 700 CDs my preferred method of entering them is the "what's on the tin method" and avoiding the international category wherever possible. I know a fair few other site users that have adopted the same method after grappling with the inconsistencies and intricacies of entering CDs. Apparently, according to some, a fix for these issues is in the pipeline so that would a good thing.
Thanks Lee, If I list it again as Australian then I will be adding exactly the same cat# and bar code (as we enter it as a string). kab2112 is a MOD so I will see what he or other MODS think.
Looks like you're right Jasper but you'll have to send a correction for the listing to change to "International". I think some MODS prefer anything with the "Digital Audio Technologies Australia" logo to be listed as Australian regardless of any of the other matching data and others seem to think the matching data over-rides this.
Really it's up to you Jasper and if you had listed it as an Australian release I don't think anyone would have noticed or bothered about it too much.
Do we have a case for "International" here? Added back tray inlay and disc images from my CD - discs have "Digital Audio Technologies Australia" logo. The only difference I can see as far as numbers are concerned are the font/spacings at the bottom of the bar code.