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24th Jun 2014, 3:51 PM
	Jock_Girl A girl who looks good in vinyl Member since Dec 2012 1544 Points Moderator	GEMSMFAN wrote: Unsure if incorrect catalog numbers or bar codes mean much in here, but since we are providing this info, it should be as accurate as possible, shouldn't it? Otherwise, why bother to include it? I'm noticing a multiple number is being added to "Sony" and "Sony Latin" releases. Note this release. This particular entry and the discussion of catalogue numbers with regard to it (with no offense intended to anyone) is one of the type that really bugs me. The images provided show no justification for ANY catalogue number given. Unless an image of the actual CD is given as well as that of the back of the CD packaging, it is difficult to discuss what should be done. Now in the case of This One the answer is less muddy -- I would do as is done there ----------------- All that said -- we face the same thing in the 78 RPM world. I am constantly getting ''broken' album sets -- where I get one or two discs of a multi-disc album. So the conumdrum becomes, do I list the discs with the album catalogue number, if known, or do I list them individually with the catalogue number of the album as an extra number -- because -- in many case the individual discs do not carry the album number, and unless I go back in time to check , I have no idea if the disks were also available separately or not. Bottom line -- in my opinion -- is you have to go with exactly what is on the disk and the printed material with any entry. Because we don't work for Sony or whomever (geez anymore it looks like there is only Sony/BMG and Universal) we have no idea what the meaning of the catalogue numbers are -- and have no way to decide how to interpret them Amy --resident girl perfectionista Edited by Jock_Girl on 24th Jun 2014, 4:45 PM