Much as I hate to make things complicated or messy, I eventually conclude that we have to make album pages basically list every release name, since otherwise we can't understand what game(s) is behind the album we're looking at, until we click the link and visit the product page.
http://vgmdb.net/album/4061
http://vgmdb.net/album/18160
These albums contain music from expansions of FFXI, and rather than plain "Final Fantasy XI" alone, I think it would be clearer to everybody that all the related expansion names are displayed there.
The biggest problem with this method is we have multiple releases to linkify and have to puzzle about which one to link; As we make a release entry per console, per region, and FFXI is released for PS2, PC, 360 and in Japan, US, Europe, Australia, we have more than 10 candidates to pick up! Perhaps we just link only one product while putting more into a link text, or use a menu, but I'm not sure either of them is ever possible with our linking system and language switch options (or is even worthy of consideration, to begin with). If you're going to solve this by hover text or such, mine can be easily neglected.
Quote:
<a href="http://vgmdb.net/product/206">
Final Fantasy XI<br>
Final Fantasy XI: Rise of the Zilart<br>
Final Fantasy XI: Chains of Promathia<br>
Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan<br>
Final Fantasy XI: Wings of the Goddess
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As for another usage for "Related Album" section; we now probably have better and more comprehensive way to provide product-based information (despite it being one click away from the album page), but rather than removing the section as a whole, we could display album-based relationship (e.g. Scitron 1500 series, SQ series, Club Nintendo gift albums, 'SQ' series, etc, none of them can be grouped by us).
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Original Soundtrack
Arrangement
Fan Arrangement
Vocal Arrangement
OP/ED/insert song
Drama
Talk
Prototype/Unused
Sound Effect
Data
Video
"uses themes?" (like when an anime uses themes from the game that inspired it)
Derivative Work (like "inspired by" albums)
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Look fine to me. "uses themes" could be helpful to handle game cases like below, but I don't want to see almost every Final Fantasy album to have "Final Fantasy I" just because of "Prelude" arranged somewhere.... On the other hand, games like Dissidia virtually has an arrange album, so those 'featured' game are entitled to be linked.
http://vgmdb.net/forums/showpost.php...7&postcount=20
http://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?p=22972