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Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

I guess the question is whether it is a problem for an artist to have multiple albums in a discography credited from essentially the same work.

Now I have a doubt on digital re-releases with extra tracks, such as Video Games Live and Blue Dragon, because it would be unfair to withdraw new tracks from the discography of artists.

But we can restrict this to the limited editions. I thought about using it for those types of albums that are re-released with the same title and with nearly the same original content, but because of an extra CD or DVD, can't be categorized as reprints.

The Final Fantasy XIII OST for example. If you look at the discography of Masashi Hamauzu, he takes an extra credit as a composer and arranger on the same track over the standard edition just because the first press edition has a CD drama. In other words, he didn’t compose two different soundtracks. If were not this CD drama, FFXIII OST could be added as a reprint, and this duplicate would not appear in the discography.

Originally Posted by Cedille

Thanks for raising this issue. I once went so far as not to linkify every artist to the other entry (see this), but this was a stopgap solution to say the least. I also think it's far from appropriate, since Limited editions get their own separate entries because of extra discs which the artists might have to be given credit for (it's still a matter of being featured in promotional videos or such, though...).

In fact, I just thought about it when I read your note, but in a way that had links to the artists. Another solution I thought just now is to be an option to add a limited edition (as reprints) in their own albums, but in a way that you could handle the artists. Instead of a row of check boxes, there could be two, one for the standard edition and the other for limited edition. So it would be possible to determine exactly the credits artists of each issue. Maybe there could be one artist field shared with two albums (regular and limited edition).

In the case of FFXIII, for instance, Masashi Hamauzu would be credited in the two versions, and in his discography we would see only the regular release, because in his case is redundant the first press edition appears. Since the drama cast would be noted only in the first press edition, and this album would appear in the discography of the voice actors.

But I don't know if in this case could be a better solution...

Originally Posted by Cedille

Personally, I feel it's a bit inconsistent, because we make child albums and bootlegs not appear in the discography pages. It's fine to credit artists to something exclusive to the Limited Editions, of course.

However, if the bootlegs aren't added as reprints, the albums appears anyway in the discography. Take a look at the profile of Noriyuki Iwadare, for example.