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Topic: CD Albums: Time To Bite The Bullet Pt. 1 The Problem

9th Aug 2017, 6:20 PM
	gregs45s SUBS Member since Apr 2012 7614 Points	Please don't consider making all CD's "International",this means absolutely nothing,and is not in any way informative,imagine all the Stone's CD's identified as International!!,totally meaningless and not searchable,all we are currently saying by making something International is that the same combination Cat.No./label/barcode matches another release issued elsewhere in the world,that might be,and quite often is,only one other release,so a German release may share the same details with an Argentinian release for example,but what good is it doing to group these two together on the same page?,neither the German issue would have been sold in Argentina,likewise,the Argentinian release would not have been put on sale in Germany (unless they were exports of course,which do not count as regular issues),so i can see no benefit in carrying on this way. I have,suggested in the past,and shall do so again,that multiple flags are used for each entry,i.e,the first page you would be presented with was a "Manufactured" option : Manufactured in : Artwork - Printed in Germany Disc - Made in the EU Then : Issued In : UK (with the option to add more flags when confirmation of issue in that country is presented,i.e," i bought mine in Australia at a regular price"or to use an "Unknown" option,or just leave it blank if you don't know,this,"country of issue"information could be added at any time in the future) so,using the above as an example you would have a German and European flag under "Manufactured" and UK and Australian flags under "Issued In". This,i feel would make it simpler for new/current members to enter a CD,the only thing they have to enter initially,would be the place of manufacture,information which is more often than not i think,on the artwork and Disc,and if it's not available,just use an "Unknown" option.Thereby freeing up that first stumbling block,that we all currently spend too much time considering;) As for Catalogue variations,i have repeated many times in the past that when it comes to CD's in particular, "similar",is not "identical/the same",and that minor variations in the way that CD catalogue numbers are written,are not "typo's",those variations,whether they be spaces/hyphens/additional numbers,are not errors,they are put there by the record companies for a purpose,to differentiate between different countries,and so,all variations should be entered separately IMHO,as they would have been intended for elsewhere,it is a particular "quirk" associated with CD's,and i believe we should take time to segregate,otherwise,we end up going down the "bung everything together" road by grouping "similar" Cat.No's together,akin to the dreaded "International";) So i believe it would still pay to identify by country/ies,otherwise,what differentiates one International CD from another? Just my opinion of course,and just one of many that may go toward solving this problem (hopefully;)