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Topic: One More Time - International CD releases

29th Jul 2019, 3:03 PM
	gregs45s SUBS Member since Apr 2012 7614 Points	PhilMH wrote: "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"." If you read my suggestion,you will see that the country of manufacture be added to the items page itself,and not to the thumbnail with the country of release flag/s,to avoid such confusion,(somewhere in with the Cat.No's etc) it was only a suggestion that members would have at least something to enter if they were not sure about country of release,and any additional data would not hurt after all,and,who knows,it may prove handy later on as the database grows to know where the early Discs/Artwork were made adding to the CD's history.(i appreciate that early CD's were made in either W.Germany or Japan for the European/US markets,and suggest it may prove handy to be able to search those later on) As for "ball-park"catalogue numbers,i'd have to disagree on that one,i believe it's important to write these numbers as written,the slight differences often signify a different country,and,sometimes,even different packaging.If we were to group together "similar" Cat.No's for any one release,then you would effectively be putting different countries releases together on the same page..."International" I'm glad we have decided to stop using International as an option however.I personally have tried to stop that a while ago,just entering the one country where i know for sure it was released.I still think it might be a good idea to update the "how to add CD's" guide,maybe with some identification tips for members. Thanks to the Mods for "seeing the light" on this issue;) Cheers