I like it when the label page looks pretty and has all matching catnumbers. but I want a release to have the label that's exactly as printed on the release (with the caveheat that it's consistent over the release, if there is blup1234 on the bck and BLUP 1234 on the spine...)
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kepstin-laptop
hawke: I've... never seen that in japan. I suppose in theory there might be a reprint that had to have the graphics redone, maybe...
2014-05-21 14122, 2014
kepstin-laptop
or a misprint, those have got to happen now and then
2014-05-21 14139, 2014
hawke
ZaphodBeeblebrox: indeed.
2014-05-21 14101, 2014
hawke
“I like it when the label page looks pretty and has all matching catnumbers.” — this.
2014-05-21 14106, 2014
kepstin-laptop
but if a release is re-released, it gets a new catalogue number so it can have sales data tracked separately by the RIAJ.
2014-05-21 14123, 2014
ZaphodBeeblebrox
is see that very often that it says BLUP 1234 one on place and blup1234 other place. I also see hat most ebsites have a standardization they use and pick the catnumbers. and the website or example a label might do something with catalogue numbers too. like suddenly it's BL 1234 instead. and the online sight "blup records" might actually write out BL-1234
2014-05-21 14138, 2014
hawke
ZaphodBeeblebrox: that’s dependent on the label though, is it not?
2014-05-21 14142, 2014
hawke
er…
2014-05-21 14148, 2014
hawke
@ kepstin-laptop rather
2014-05-21 14132, 2014
kepstin-laptop
hawke: well, i'm talking only about labels that are associated with the RIAJ
2014-05-21 14125, 2014
kepstin-laptop
you obviously won't ever see a re-release on a different media format use the same catalogue number, since the media format is part of the catalogue number.
2014-05-21 14141, 2014
ZaphodBeeblebrox
yea, but why? and not "because japanese and two parts of the code" I'm sure most labels have an internal standardization thingy liek that
2014-05-21 14148, 2014
ZaphodBeeblebrox
Sublime frequencies for example
2014-05-21 14105, 2014
ZaphodBeeblebrox
tak "cd" to the end of their releases cd and "lp" on the vinyl releses
2014-05-21 14114, 2014
kepstin-laptop
sure, there are other labels out there that do that, and others that don't.
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hawke
So anyway…if it’s almost entirely a cosmetic thing — why do we need to standardize?
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blup
what
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blup
that was weird
2014-05-21 14149, 2014
hawke
for the pretty catalog listings?
2014-05-21 14132, 2014
blup
ever since nexgentel did "maintenance" on the line, my connection has been screwy
2014-05-21 14148, 2014
blup
sorry i missed some of the conversation
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hawke
blup: not much.
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