Remaster Relationship Type

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1 Description
2 Link Phrases
3 Attributes
- 3.1 “start date”
- 3.2 “end date”
4 Guidelines
5 Examples

Official Documentation: Relationships Overview \| Style guidelines \| How to Add Relationships \| Suggest a new relationship type Relationship Classes > Alternative Version Relationship Class > Remaster Relationship Type

This relationship type belongs to the Alternative Version Relationship Class.

Description

This links two recordings or two releases, where one is a remaster of the other. This is usually done to improve the audio quality or to adjust for more modern playback equipment. The process generally doesn't involve changing the music in any artistically important way. It may, however, result in recordings that differ in length by a few seconds.

Link Phrases

Release is a remaster of Release
Release has remastered version(s) Release
Recording is a remaster of Recording
Recording has remastered version(s) Recording

Attributes

“start date”

There is no guideline yet for how the begin date fields might be used.

“end date”

There is no guideline yet for how the end date fields might be used.

Guidelines

All remasters should link to the earliest released version.
A release-release relationship does not imply that every recording on the release has been remastered from the earlier release. It only indicates that some of the recordings on the later release have been remastered from the earlier release. Therefore, when the data is available, the recording-recording relationship should be used, not the release-release relationship.
If the music has been re-recorded, not remastered, then the Other Version Relationship Type should be used.

For assistance in determining the correct relationship types to use when describing compiling, DJ mixing, mastering, mixing, remastering, remixing, and sampling, please refer to Mix Terminology.

Examples

SACD remaster of CD release:

Waves (the Bossa Nova Session) is a remaster of Waves - The Bossa Nova Session
- Waves - The Bossa Nova Session has remastered version(s) Waves (the Bossa Nova Session)
CD remaster of Vinyl release:
- Hell Bent for Leather is a remaster of Hell Bent for Leather
- Hell Bent for Leather has remastered version(s) Hell Bent for Leather
Recording remaster of recording:
- Delivering the Goods is a remaster of Delivering the Goods
- Delivering the Goods has remastered version(s) Delivering the Goods