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Music compilation collection series. #143

Open cjcodeproj opened 5 months ago

cjcodeproj commented 5 months ago

Sometimes, compilation CDs are part of a series that may not have had any artist input, despite the album only containing songs from a single artist.

Example titles include:

  1. Tom T. Hall: The Definitive Collection
  2. Patsy Cline: The Definitive Collection
  3. Jerry Jeff Walker: Ultimate Collection
  4. Poco: Ultimate Collection
  5. 20th Century Masters, The Best of ABBA, The Millennium Collection
  6. 20th Century Masters, The Best of Tracy Byrd, The Millennium Collection

If you actually look at the CDs, you can identify common design traits. For example, everything in the "Ultimate Collection" usually has a gold oval logo.

For the purpose of data entry, this leads to a few questions.

  1. What is the actual album title?
  2. Should the collection be identified through additional elements? Is there any benefit?