Series Migration

In MusicBrainz Terminology, 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. Big City Beats
9. Buddha-Bar
10. Bugged Out!
11. Café del Mar
12. Chip Jockey
13. Daytrotter Session
14. DJ-Kicks
15. Dream Dance
16. Die Kompletten Werke
17. Fabric
18. Fetenhits
19. Fetenkult
20. France Inter Black Sessions
21. Future Trance
22. fRoots
23. Glenn Gould: The Complete Original Jacket Collection
24. Global Underground
25. Groove Experience
26. Нашествие
27. Hard Dance Mania
28. HelloRecordingClub
29. Hitdossier
30. Die Hit-Giganten
31. Hitzone
32. Icon
33. Indie20
34. Isaac Stern: A Life in Music
35. Jazz & Blues Collection
36. Jazz in Paris
37. Knuffelrock
38. Kontor
39. Kuschelrock
40. Late Night Tales
41. Mayday Compilation
42. Mellomania
43. Ministry of Sound
44. Mixmag
45. MTVUnplugged
46. Now That's What I Call Music!
47. Putumayo
48. Radio 538 Dance Smash Hits
49. RAS Portraits
50. Franz Schubert - The Masterworks
51. SkitzMix
52. So Fresh
53. Sunshine Live
54. Technics DJ Set
55. Techno Club
56. The Chronological Classics
57. The Complete Piano Music of Franz Liszt Played by Leslie Howard
58. The Romantic Piano Concerto (hyperion)
59. The Vibe !
60. Thunderdome
61. Trojan Box Set
62. Tunnel Trance Force
63. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Works (Brilliant Classics version)
64. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Complete Mozart Edition (Philips version)
65. XMix
66. YTMND Soundtrack