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JMan

There's an album I recently added that meets the criteria for adding an album: more than twenty minutes, and more than 3 (or is it 5?) tracks. The album has been marked "NULL" and is to be deleted soon. Can this be fixed? Because it shouldn't be deleted.

Patman360

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I don't think the track amount counts, look at albums like Tubular Bells for example.
Presuming you mean this album though?

Certainly a debatable one I guess, suppose the problem is that it was never was released as an album except as a companion to this book. Hmm, it's an unusual one. Think

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JMan

Patman360 wrote:

I don't think the track amount counts, look at albums like Tubular Bells for example.
Presuming you mean this album though?

Certainly a debatable one I guess, suppose the problem is that it was never was released as an album except as a companion to this book. Hmm, it's an unusual one. Think

Yep. It's still an album, though, and it counts as a soundtrack, even if it's for a book. If it wasn't eligible, we could just delete all the video game and movie soundtracks on the site.

EDIT: this was not meant to be a rude remark in anyway. It appeared to me to be one after I posted it.

Patman360

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JMan wrote:

Yep. It's still an album, though, and it counts as a soundtrack, even if it's for a book. If it wasn't eligible, we could just delete all the video game and movie soundtracks on the site.

I guess the difference could be that the video game/film/television soundtracks on the site have since been released separately as albums, maybe that's not the case with the soundtrack to this book?
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Patman360 wrote:

I guess the difference could be that the video game/film/television soundtracks on the site have since been released separately as albums, maybe that's not the case with the soundtrack to this book?

This is what I was thinking. It was never released as an official album. It's more like an audiobook.
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JMan

Jasonconfused wrote:

This is what I was thinking. It was never released as an official album. It's more like an audiobook.

An audiobook that doesn't tell a part of the book that was ever written in the book? it's about the competition itself.

I didn't know there were more readers of the book on BEA.

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JMan wrote:

I didn't know there were more readers of the book on BEA.

I've never read it, I looked around and couldn't find the album available on its own, only as an accompaniment to the book, the fact that this was never released on its own as an album is the reason that the legality of it is being questioned.
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JMan

Patman360 wrote:

I've never read it, I looked around and couldn't find the album available on its own, only as an accompaniment to the book, the fact that this was never released on its own as an album is the reason that the legality of it is being questioned.

I can send you links to all the videos. It's a good album. Much bette than I thought it would be. The highest rating I gave was 85, most tracks ranged from 80-75, and there was one 65. The album goes for an electronic/space sound while including soft and heavy tunes ranging from pop to folk to "traditional space music" to a tiny bit of grunge. Graeme's voioce is decent, and he uses multiple singing voices for all the bands.

The book itself is supposed to have a mildly 2112 style story about a kid travelling space with his guitar. Haven't read it in a while, but I'm hoping to pick up a couple Graeme Base books online to learn some more art techniques.

Jasonconfused

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JMan wrote:

I can send you links to all the videos. It's a good album. Much bette than I thought it would be. The highest rating I gave was 85, most tracks ranged from 80-75, and there was one 65. The album goes for an electronic/space sound while including soft and heavy tunes ranging from pop to folk to "traditional space music" to a tiny bit of grunge. Graeme's voioce is decent, and he uses multiple singing voices for all the bands.

The book itself is supposed to have a mildly 2112 style story about a kid travelling space with his guitar. Haven't read it in a while, but I'm hoping to pick up a couple Graeme Base books online to learn some more art techniques.

This is all irrelevant to whether the album is allowed on BEA or not.
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All albums on BEA need to be proper releases (e.g. for soundtrack albums, they need to exist in their own right, separate to the movies that they they appear on.) As Patman360 has suggested, the problem with this item is that it isn't a proper release (& you can't buy it without buying the book as well).