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Old May 2, 2013, 05:39 PM
GermanSeabass GermanSeabass is offline
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Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel View Post
Just trying to process the distinction between publisher, distributor, producer, etc. in the digital age. Just thinking though, that if a digital doujin release receives an officially sanctioned release on another label, it should probably get a separate entry, even though we don't currently create child album entries for digital re-releases. There may be some additional downsides to this...
I suppose the question becomes whether VGMdb's goal supposed to be an comprehensive archive of albums (regardless of who distributed them where in what manner and how many times) or a database more like allmusic/Discogs/Gracenote, which go into details like distribution and multiple releases.
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