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. When/if such a relationship is implemented, many, or all of these series below 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. Alan Lomax Recordings
5. As & When
6. Bach Edition: Complete Works (Brilliant Classics)
7. Back to Mine
8. Buddha-Bar
9. Bugged Out!
10. Café del Mar
11. Chip Jockey
12. Daytrotter Session
13. DJ-Kicks
14. Dream Dance
15. Fabric
16. Fetenhits
17. Fetenkult
18. France Inter Black Sessions
19. Future Trance
20. fRoots
21. Glenn Gould: The Complete Original Jacket Collection
22. Global Underground
23. Groove Experience
24. Нашествие
25. Hard Dance Mania
26. HelloRecordingClub
27. Hitdossier
28. Die Hit-Giganten
29. Hitzone
30. Indie20
31. Isaac Stern: A Life in Music
32. Jazz in Paris
33. Knuffelrock
34. Kontor
35. Kuschelrock
36. Late Night Tales
37. Mayday Compilation
38. Mellomania
39. Ministry of Sound
40. Mixmag
41. MTVUnplugged
42. Now That's What I Call Music!
43. Putumayo
44. Radio 538 Dance Smash Hits
45. RAS Portraits
46. Franz Schubert - The Masterworks
47. SkitzMix
48. So Fresh
49. Sunshine Live
50. Techno Club
51. Tunnel Trance Force
52. The Complete Piano Music of Franz Liszt Played by Leslie Howard
53. The Romantic Piano Concerto (hyperion)
54. The Vibe !
55. Trojan Box Set
56. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works (Brilliant Classics version)
57. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Mozart Edition (Philips version)
58. XMix
59. YTMND Soundtrack