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.
• SeriesNumberStyle discusses VolumeNumberStyle and PartNumberStyle which can apply to some release and track series.
• SubTitleStyle is often used to separate the series' title and a specific release's title.

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:

'''[http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Series/<SeriesName>|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. France Inter Black Sessions
14. fRoots
15. Glenn Gould: The Complete Original Jacket Collection
16. Global Underground
17. Hard Dance Mania
18. HelloRecordingClub
19. Hitdossier
20. Die Hit-Giganten
21. Hitzone
22. Indie20
23. Knuffelrock
24. Kontor
25. Kuschelrock
26. Late Night Tales
27. The Complete Piano Music of Franz Liszt Played by Leslie Howard
28. Alan Lomax Recordings
29. Mayday Compilation
30. Ministry of Sound
31. Mixmag
32. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works (Brilliant Classics version)
33. MTVUnplugged
34. Now That's What I Call Music!
35. Putumayo
36. SkitzMix
37. So Fresh
38. Isaac Stern: A Life in Music
39. Sunshine Live
40. Techno Club
41. Trojan Box Set
42. XMix
43. YTMND Soundtrack

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