Series Migration

In MusicBrainzTerminology, a series is a sequence of separate Releases or Tracks with a common theme, artist, label or genre; usually prominent in the naming of branding of releases or tracks in the series. For release series, individual releases are often denoted with a volume or series number, but this is not necessary for them to be considered a series. A series can vary between two and hundreds of releases.

Examples

• FabricLive 35: Marcus Intalex is the 35th release in the ~FabricLive compilation series.
• Promo Only: Modern Rock Radio, October 2006 is the October 2006 release in the Promo Only: Modern Rock Radio series.
• Casino Royale, Volume 1: For the Hustlers is the first release in a 2-part concept DJ mix series by DJ Rectangle.
• Metallica's The Unforgiven, The Unforgiven II and The Unforgiven III are a track series.

Style

• Series of releases can be linked to each other using the PartOfSeriesRelationshipType AdvancedRelationship. Consult the documentation there for guidelines on when to use this relationship. Important: Not all series may be suitable for use with this relationship.
• The community has agreed upon weak SeriesStyleGuidelines for a select number of release and track series. Other series have have de facto standards in place through community edit agreement.
• Release series that use volume numbers are affected by VolumeNumberStyle.
• SubTitleStyle is often used to separate the series' title and a specific release's title.
• Track series are sometimes affected by PartNumberStyle.

Sources for series information

• There's a comprehensive site about sampler series in Germany (in German).

Catalogs of series

The following is a non-exhaustive set of series cataloged in the MB documentation prior to the implementation of the PartOfSeriesRelationshipType. Many, or all of these series should be linked with this relationship and then removed from the documentation.

Prior to the AR implementation, the standard was that if a series had ten releases or more, to create a page like below and add to the ReleaseAnnotation an entry like Series/DreamDance using the below markup:

'''[Series/<SeriesName>]'''

1. 20th Century Masters
2. 20 Years on MTV
3. Absolute
4. As & When
5. Bach Edition: Complete Works (Brilliant Classics)
6. Back to Mine
7. Café del Mar
8. Daytrotter Session
9. DJKicks
10. Dream Dance
11. Fetenhits
12. Fetenkult
13. fRoots
14. Glenn Gould: The Complete Original Jacket Collection
15. Global Underground
16. Hard Dance Mania
17. HelloRecordingClub
18. Hitdossier
19. Die Hit-Giganten
20. Hitzone
21. Indie20
22. Knuffelrock
23. Kontor
24. Kuschelrock
25. Late Night Tales
26. Mayday Compilation
27. Ministry of Sound
28. Mixmag
29. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works (Brilliant Classics version)
30. MTVUnplugged
31. Now That's What I Call Music!
32. Putumayo
33. SkitzMix
34. So Fresh
35. Sunshine Live
36. Techno Club
37. Trojan Box Set
38. XMix
39. YTMND Soundtrack
40. Alan Lomax Recordings
41. France Inter Black Sessions
42. The Complete Piano Music of Franz Liszt Played by Leslie Howard

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