#musicbrainz

That's weird. Purely by coincidence, three of the CDs I've looked at today were mastered by the same person.

well, it's not entirely coincidence. Two of the CDs were by the same artist through the same record label.

I need to do less editing. My subscription email today is huge, and it's mostly my fault :/

kepstin: nooo, don't do less editing

Lol, 196 ARs just to set a single additional voice credit on one track :P

lol

lmao

that is epic

yowza

man, attempting to read kanji off low-res scans I found on the internet is hard :/

kepstin: did you see my pmsg from last night?

yeah

awesome, I managed to figure out this drummer's first name, and he's already in musicbrainz

huh, that's a new one. http://www.myspace.com/nksound - a recording engineer in tokyo of east indian descent who was born in california.

or apparently not new, because he's already in musicbrainz.

hmm. jesus2099's comment on http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=13607743 brings up an interesting point

NGS doesn't allow having separate catalogue numbers for each disc of a multi-disc release

is that something that should be supported?

but I doubt it'll get done for ngs :/

one thing i've seen on some of these releases with bonus discs is that the first disc will still have the catalogue number for the single-disc release, and have the UPC code for the single-disc release embedded

although it does allow multiple catalogue numbers, it just doesn't let you say "this is for disc 1, that is for disc 2"

hm?

I own the version 'VTZL-8' of http://musicbrainz.org/release/76f7092a-2971-45...

which contains a CD labelled VTCL-60085 and a DVD labelled VTBY-4

interesting...

I haven't seen any like that yet, I've only seen ones where each disc has the disc number appended (e.g. the spine says ABCD-1234, disc 1 is ABCD-1234-1 and disc 2 is ABCD-1234-2) and those ones with letters like the avex ones

although I do have some where the dvd has a completely different catalogue number

http://musicbrainz.org/release/0809c1e9-35dc-4d... is weirder - VIZL-222 is literally just a box containing the regular (digipak) release of VICL-62300 and a seperate digipak of VIBY-278 which is the DVD

hmm. A few of the japanese releases that i've gotten recently are kind of odd.

they come in a jewel case that's slightly thicker than normal

they're japanese :P

how much thicker though?

about a millimeter

hmm.

hehe

from left to right that's thin (a single), regular, thick

they use the extra space in the thick cases for larger booklets

it might just be something weird with victor entertainment - I have two of these, and they're both victor entertainment releases.

ohh. I thought I had a wider one

I do have one like that, but it comes with a slim-cd and a card thing that slips over them, so it's realllly wide anyway

(and mine's an avex one)

but yeah, 44-page booklet printed on thick card stock in there.

and I have a couple which are even wider than that

some of the older two-cd cases got to be really wide

yeah, those are like two trays

but not the sort which have a separator between them, they're not quite that wide

I don't really like the current style of 2-cd cases which have a flip-out bit, they're always too fragile and fiddly.

and half flip out one way, half the other way, and I can never remember which is which

pony canyon this time

'super'?

they're the ones with rounded corners and spines on the top and bottom as well as the sides

although I have to say that the standard cases I get with japanese releases seem to be better than the ones I get from other countries. maybe they're just made of stronger plastic or something

I actually have one of those 'SHM' CDs that some japanese companies are promoting.

have yet to see a difference :)

hence calling them sham-cds :P

it's entirely possible that the alternate plastic formulation they're using increases scratch resistance, but I'm not about to test that :)

it'd be nice to be able to mark them (and blu-spec) ones in the db though

I did notice that some labels are using specific catalogue numbers for them

yeah, on releases where they have both, the SHM tends to have a price premium

oh, nice boxes, and fully transparent

I think sony uses digits starting with 90000 for blu-spec and emi uses digits starting with 20000 for shm... or vice versa

I have a lot of standard cd cases where the CD holder is black, and it masks the artwork behind

those look really old fashioned to me :D

the JVC one I have is -70001 and -70002 (it's a two-disc set)

but I don't know if that's because it's SHM; I don't think it's the first release they put out in the format

I think victor don't have specific numbers... I was investigating them, 'cause then I can tag them :D

the other JVC discs I have tend to be 30000 (singles) or 60000 (albums)

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oops. sony use 20000 for blu-spec, emi use 90000 for shm

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ah, there's one release I have where there was a blu-spec version... the normal limited edition with the dvd was ¥3,800, the blu-spec version with the dvd was ¥6,666

I thought about getting it to see what's so special... until I saw the price :P

yeah. the one SHM release I have is because it was /only/ released as SHM :)

bonus points for being able to tell the difference between http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/-/Discography/A008957... and http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/-/Discography/A008957...

someone familiar with victor catalogue numbers might be able to guess.

the first one has a dvd?

yep.

ehehe

the strange thing is that I only have a couple of victor releases

but I seem to spend an awful lot of time figuring out their labels and catalogue numbers

yeah, a couple of my favourite artists are on flying DOG, so I have a bunch of Victor releases.

hmm. there does seem to be a bit of a pattern to their catalogue numbers. VI?? is Victor, VT?? is flying dog, 6xxxx is albums, 35xxx is maxi singles, 30xxxx and 1xxxxx are 8cm singles

30xxx and 1xxxx*

ooh

I knew about VI and VT

if the third letter is 'D' it's an 8cm CD, 'C' is a 12cm CD, 'B' is a video DVD, 'X' is bluray, 'Z' is combination

yeah, I was collecting the third letters for ages, then I found out there was already a list on the japanese wikipedia :P

I wonder if they ever change the 4th letter, I only think i've seen 'L'

they do

I think they use them for sub-labels, like I think VICB is babestar

and I've seen VICJ for some jazz stuff I think...

oh. seems that VICB is the only one

(for sublabels I mean)

ah. the fourth letter is P on their releases by foreign artists

now that's just weird. A new release by ROUND TABLE (not featuring Nino). http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/m-serve/-/Discography...

currently ROUND TABLE and ROUND TABLE featuring Nino aren't linked at all

I wondered the same about the country musume ones too

it looks like the prevailing theory about ROUND TABLE featuring Nino was that it was a name change after they added Nino

but I guess not if they're putting out a new ROUND TABLE-only release.

might make sense to redo it as a 'collaboration' between ROUND TABLE and Nino, or NGS artist credits.

well, don't forget that at the time people were like "it says featuring! you should put (feat. Nino) on everything instead!!" ;)

(if you're talking about the annotation I mean)

now we have 14 pages of artists containing 'feat', only 2 of which actually are people named Feat...

and another 4 with featuring