Question on MP3 Anthology

[jdc0730]

I was attempting to clean up the entire for Oval Opus (http://musicbrainz.org/artist/40736ef7-b989-4edb-a14d-124eeadcfdf3.html) and have a question.  In 2006, they released a CD containing MP3s for their entire catalog.  See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ovalopus5.  The MP3 collection also contained 3 additional bonus tracks.  I am not sure what to do with this.  It would seem I have the following options:

1.  Add a new release with all the tracks from all the albums including the bonus tracks.
2.  Add the 3 bonus tracks as a release (not sure what type this would be)
3.  Add the 3 bonus tracks as non-album tracks.  

Can anyone provide any guidance?  I suspect number 1 is the way to go but wanted confirmation.  Also with this type of disc should it be marked as a CD or Digital Media?

Thanks,
Jeff (jdc0730)

[Brian Schweitzer]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, jdc0730 <Jeff.Christoffersen@...> wrote:

I was attempting to clean up the entire for Oval Opus
(http://musicbrainz.org/artist/40736ef7-b989-4edb-a14d-124eeadcfdf3.html)
and have a question.  In 2006, they released a CD containing MP3s for their
entire catalog.  See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ovalopus5.  The MP3 collection
also contained 3 additional bonus tracks.  I am not sure what to do with
this.  It would seem I have the following options:

1.  Add a new release with all the tracks from all the albums including the
bonus tracks.
2.  Add the 3 bonus tracks as a release (not sure what type this would be)
3.  Add the 3 bonus tracks as non-album tracks.

Can anyone provide any guidance?  I suspect number 1 is the way to go but
wanted confirmation.  Also with this type of disc should it be marked as a
CD or Digital Media?

I would go with #1 in alphabetical order, per the section of the NAT guideline dealing with such CD ROM collections:

MP3 CD-ROM collections

Sometimes an artist or label will release a number of songs as MP3 files on a CD-ROM rather than as an audio disc; these should be entered as normal albums (or compilations, etc. if that is more appropriate). If there is no explicit track order in the filenames, they should be listed in alphabetical order as that is how most MP3 CD-ROM capable players will play them.

Brian

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[Chad Wilson-2]

Brian Schweitzer wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:34 PM, jdc0730
> <Jeff.Christoffersen@...
> <mailto:Jeff.Christoffersen@...>> wrote:
>
>
>     I was attempting to clean up the entire for Oval Opus
>     (http://musicbrainz.org/artist/40736ef7-b989-4edb-a14d-124eeadcfdf3.html)
>     and have a question.  In 2006, they released a CD containing MP3s
>     for their
>     entire catalog.  See http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ovalopus5.  The MP3
>     collection
>     also contained 3 additional bonus tracks.  I am not sure what to
>     do with
>     this.  It would seem I have the following options:
>
>     1.  Add a new release with all the tracks from all the albums
>     including the
>     bonus tracks.
>     2.  Add the 3 bonus tracks as a release (not sure what type this
>     would be)
>     3.  Add the 3 bonus tracks as non-album tracks.
>
>     Can anyone provide any guidance?  I suspect number 1 is the way to
>     go but
>     wanted confirmation.  Also with this type of disc should it be
>     marked as a
>     CD or Digital Media?
>
>
> I would go with #1 in alphabetical order, per the section of the NAT
> guideline dealing with such CD ROM collections:
>
> MP3 CD-ROM collections
>     Sometimes an artist or label will release a number of songs as MP3
>     files on a CD-ROM rather than as an audio disc; these should be
>     entered as normal albums (or compilations, etc. if that is more
>     appropriate). If there is no explicit track order in the
>     filenames, they should be listed in alphabetical order as that is
>     how most MP3 CD-ROM capable players will play them.
>
> Brian

I think I agree. If the mp3s on the CD-ROM are separated into folders by
"album" with a separate grouping for the bonus tracks, however, it may
make sense to go with option 2. If they're all lumped together, then
option 1. Existing ID3s in the mp3s could be relevant too - it'd seem
unlikely to me that they wouldn't group their catalog into albums with
some ordering when releasing like that?

As for media type, I'd probably put Digital Media, but annotate that
they were on a CD ROM.

Chad

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