thijs Posted May 27, 2003 Report Posted May 27, 2003 do you people think that a field for the distributor in the release table is worth giving a go? Quote
haste Posted May 27, 2003 Report Posted May 27, 2003 wouldn't hurt.....most labels will have the distributor details on them nowadays. it doesn't really make much sense to bother putting the info on for old tunes though Quote
Logic Posted May 27, 2003 Report Posted May 27, 2003 As far as oldskool stuff goes, I don't see why anyone would want the contact information of any 10-year-old label or distribution company. But that's just me. :mrgreen: Quote
thijs Posted May 31, 2003 Author Report Posted May 31, 2003 true.. very true even.. that's why _if_ it is going to be added, it should be done as a release property and not label... 8) Quote
xo Posted May 31, 2003 Report Posted May 31, 2003 distributor changes even for a single release, especially with represses and backstock... it ought to be a property that can be assigned to periods of time, so say releasedate-now (for most things) or, releasedate-2002 = vinyl distro, 2002-now = SRD (or something like that) Also, a lot of records are available from *more than one* distro because of redistribution. For example everything that goes through Vital (e.g. new Full Cycle) later goes through Alphamagic for the same release. Epicenter have the same deal with Nu Urban. Quote
thijs Posted June 1, 2003 Author Report Posted June 1, 2003 whoa.. more difficult that i expected :mrgreen: might reconsider 8) Quote
haste Posted June 1, 2003 Report Posted June 1, 2003 distributor changes even for a single release, especially with represses and backstock... it ought to be a property that can be assigned to periods of time, so say releasedate-now (for most things) or, releasedate-2002 = vinyl distro, 2002-now = SRD (or something like that)that also wouldn't work.....V used to release 12s through Vinyl & albums through SRD (or the other way around) during the same period of time. It would have to be done by release.....and you'd have to build it so that you could have more than 1 distributor for each release.....quite a lot of hassle for relatively useless info or maybe you could just list the first (or main) distributor for that release....would be a lot easier and to be honest i dont think that info will be that vital to get 100% correct as i doubt people will be all that intersted :wink: Quote
thijs Posted June 1, 2003 Author Report Posted June 1, 2003 i think we should drop the distro option... :? Quote
xo Posted June 10, 2003 Report Posted June 10, 2003 if you have up to date contact info for the label, then finding out who distributes it is as simple as making a phone call (or going to the website) anyway. Quote
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