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| 26th May 2017, 11:41 PM | #1 REPORT | |
 | Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3774 Points Moderator | Maybe our American friends can help with these troublesome beasts. There seem to be a few CD albums that perhaps once were housed in longboxes... ...some have been entered here without the longbox, and as such just presented as a separate CD album entry, even though another entry exists which bears the same cat number and sometimes barcode. Could it be that some are CDs that once came in longboxes, but then issued without the box, and yet remains the same issue, or should they be regarded as separate issues, and so entered separately on site? Further to this, is there any way of identifying, or any rule of thumb for identifying CDs that were once housed in the boxes, were they exist already on the site, albeit that the person entering it may not have known that it was originally issued in the box - may have bought it second hand without the box, or even new, without the box? (see a discussion of this here) |
| 27th May 2017, 3:23 AM | #2 REPORT | |
 | PhilMH SUBS Member since Jan 2012 1058 Points | As barcodes were very much entrenched in the record industry (and others) by the time longboxes were phased out in the early 1990's, I very much doubt that Rykodisc would have intentionally reissued that Bowie CD in a package without a barcode, and the same goes for any other company that would have been in the same boat. (I had a few discs come in longboxes in the late 1980's, and I didn't keep them, but two discs I remember as coming that way, one on a major label and one independent, both have barcodes on the back insert as well, so Rykodisc might have been an exception). It's much more likely that the entry without a barcode here was originally in a longbox, and the owner either discarded the box, as many people apparently did according to reports I read at the time, or bought the disc used. Rykodisc then updated the back insert to include the barcode once longboxes were no more. I think the best way to approach it might be - if there is a disc from the 1980's to early 1990's without a barcode, check this site and others for a version with a barcode, and also for any possible LP or cassette equivalents. Chances are that LP's and tapes would have barcodes on their packaging (I don't think cassettes ever came in longboxes), so it's reasonable to assume that the CD version would have had a barcode too - I really can't imagine that any company would have used barcodes on two formats but not the third. |
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