History:Next Generation Schema/History

This is a process working towards a greater release covering a lot of database schema changes and the connected interface and client changes. (started in October 2005)

The changes are related to AlbumGroups, TrackGroups, MultipleArtists and many more issues and produce a lot n:n tables.

At the moment we are in the planing phase so this is FutureWork.

Previous documents addressing those changes are (some only of historical interest):

• SchemaVersion2 (very early proposal from late 2001)
• BoxSet (addressing problems with grouping albums in boxes)
• ReleaseGroups (the proposal on which AlbumRework is mostly based on)
• AlbumHandlingPhilosophy (abandoned by the author in favour of AlbumRework)

The current rework is split into:

• AlbumRework (covering ReleaseTypeRestructuringProposal, ReleaseDataSet, ReleaseRegionStyle)
• TrackGrouping (not yet sanctioned ;))
• ArtistRework
• AdvancedEntity (for creating new entity types such as artists, albums, tracks)
• GettingRidOfFeaturingArtistStyle (for support of multiple artists of one track/album or alternatives)