Virtual Duplicate Release

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A virtual duplicate album is an album that was never released with this form of the tracklisting but is another representation of a released album in the database. As this it is a legal DuplicateAlbum and is not to be merged!

Examples of virtual duplicates

This lists some examples of albums 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 albums that were actually released in different countries (so with different track listings) - therefore these albums 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 AlbumAnnotations.




Author: Shepard (add yourself here if you worked on the list)