Virtual Duplicate Release

While the word "virtual" in this instance may be an example of BadTerminology, and could perhaps better be replaced with "translation" or "transliteration" -- A virtual duplicate release is a release that was never released with this form of the tracklisting but is another representation of a release entity in the database. As this it is a legal DuplicateRelease and is not to be merged!

Examples of virtual duplicates

This lists some examples of releases that were duplicated to have a representation of them in other scripts or to have a version without Unicode characters that could cause tagging issues. It does NOT list releases that were actually released in different countries (so with different track listings) - therefore these releases are virtual. Also this cannot be a complete list since there may be hundreds of them under Japanese artists.

In a future database version it might be possible to store the different representations together with the original. Until then please leave notes in the ReleaseAnnotations.

Update: A couple people seem to be in agreement of an AdvancedRelationship to bind translated and transliterated albums together untill a permanent solution to merge versions is completed so we won't have to add ReleaseAnnotations. A RFC is being submitted to MB-style for input.

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• Various Artists:
  • Released version: Planet Pop 4 (a very stupid example...)
    • English, Katakana representation: プラネットポップ４
    • English, Cyrillic transliteration: Планет Поп 4
    • English, Cyrillic transcription: Пленет Поп 4

You gotta love how the LFO artist is different on http://musicbrainz.org/album/0c878edd-3973-4e2a-a8c2-29422aae693e.html... :-| DeleteWhenCooked --azertus

• Kate Bush:
  • Released version: Aerial (disc 1: A Sea of Honey)
    • Duplicated because of Unicode tagging issues with the Pi sign: Aerial (disc 1: A Sea of Honey)

• Theatre of Tragedy:
  • Released version: ['mju:zɪk]
    • Duplicated because cover says both ['mju:zɪk] and Musique and because of last track being in cyrillic: Musique