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Topic: One More Time - International CD releases

29th Jul 2019, 7:14 AM
	PhilMH SUBS Member since Jan 2012 1058 Points	A solution I could live with if the multiple flag option is not technically possible, is that if the same item is released somewhere other that its originating country, then a new entry be created for the other country, so that European CD's be duplicated for Australia, just as on 45cat, where PolyGram's singles made in New Zealand but also distributed in Australia are entered for both countries - I think that's what you are driving at here, T_V_J? That way, both the original country's release date and the Australian or other countries dates can be entered. It would help,though, if an easier method of copying entries was available, as all the other sites seem to have in some form, so that only the country and the release date would need to be entered on the new entry. I'm not particularly a fan of using the country where a disc was made as the country to be entered, because that would give a misleading impression in many cases; many early US (and European, and other) CD's were made in Japan expressly for those markets, so it would be a fallacy to enter Japan in the country field. Similarly, I have CD's released via Festival in Australia, showing Festival's name and catalogue number on the packages and disc, but the discs were made in the USA for Australian release. Even in the present day, some US Universal releases have clear stickers on the shrinkwrap and/or jewel cases showing "DISC MADE IN MEXICO", so again it would be fallacious to enter those as Mexican releases (in the same way that many recent vinyl reissues have been entered as Czech Republic on this and other sites, because one of the main vinyl plants happens to be in that country). Country of manufacture would be best left to notes or comments in these cases. Also, if a country's first CD's were supplied by another country, but later pressings with the same label and catalogue number (or broadly similar catalogue number - I don't want to obsess too much over spaces or dashes), then they can go under the same entry with a note or comment along the lines of "Initial release was European pressing, later copies pressed in Australia".