History:Release Data Set Proposal

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As described in AlbumHandlingPhilosophy the release data of albums needs to be expanded. This is a proposal for replacing the current ReleaseDates, consisting of a date and a country, with a more detailed set of data, the ReleaseDataSet.

Attributes

One AlbumEntity can have multiple ReleaseDataSets. They store the following fields:

Label id and distributor id refer to LabelEntities which are described in the AdvancedEntity proposal. If there are multiple labels mentioned on the cover choose the sub-division on the lowest level. Alternatively one ReleaseDataSet could also store a list of countries (and the respective release date) to avoid redundancy of the other stored fields (if one label released the disc in several countries under the same Cat#).

The AlbumEntity then stores:

  • The ID
  • The name of the album
  • The artist ID
  • The track listing
  • an initial set of track times if imported from freedb
  • a list of ReleaseDataSets including the set "Unidentified" (explanation below..)
  • perhaps two fields for recording date and place (redundancy for later releases of the album solved with DisplayInheritance)
  • Language and encoding

As for release type, release status and the physical media proposed by mo in ReleaseTypeRestructuringProposal I'm not yet sure where they belong..

Converting to this model

If this will be implemented we need to make sure all the data can be converted to the new model. So if DiscIDs are to be attatched to ReleaseDataSets how will this be done when converting?

I therefore propose always having a ReleaseDataSet called "Unidentified" where all the DiscIDs will be put first. They can then be moved to another set.

Presenting the album

This is rather much information so I propose showing only the most important bits and link to a a page showing more details of a ReleaseDataSet which also allows to edit it.

The sets are shown below the track listing and the fields which belong to the whole album (like language/encoding). The set "Unidentified" comes first, then the other sets sorted by release date.

On the left we have the most important info of the set (the title "Unidentified" or for the others "date - country <line break> LabelName (DistributorName) <line break> more..." with "more" being a link to a page for more details) and on the right the list of DiscIDs for this set (including to total running time and links to move/del the id).

Selecting the info important for the whole album

If we have multiple ASINs then which cover should be displayed? If we have multiple DiscIDs then which track times should be displayed?

If there is no DiscID take the track times from freedb (if none are present display ?:??). Otherwise take the arithmetic mean of the times in the DiscIDs (or first prefer the ids stored under the earliest release date).

If there are several ASINs take the one from the earliest release date.

See also

Discussion

| Original author: Shepard

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