For Twice’s Eyes Wide Open album, there are 7 physical versions which are all on MB. Story, Style, and Retro Korean versions, Story, Style, and Retro US versions, and Style Target exclusive version.
The thing is, across these 7 versions, there are 9 different CD designs each corresponding to the 9 members. So technically there are 63? different versions of the physical album? Would it be worth at least adding the specific combination I have? Or is it better to just leave it at 7 versions?
related discussion: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/differing-non-differing-digital-releases-with-and-without-barcodes-an-ongoing-discussion-between-editors/814188/86?u=vbzpplnqyj
oh my, i knew Lemonade had a lot of versions, i had no idea it was that bad wow. and this company stopped including little paper coupons for an associated game “for sustainability” haha. ha.
since with Lemonade they all have either different barcodes or cover art they definitely deserve separate releases. with Eyes Wide Open the Korean versions even all have the same barcode, catalog number, and it seems like all the releases have the same disc ID, so the only extra difference is the CD design which you can only deliberately choose by buying preowned. personally it matters to me which specific version/CD combo i have so i might just add that one, but who knows if a Retro/Sana combo actually exists so i’ll just forego adding every possible combo 
Sounds like those are technically different releases, even if you don’t know which one you’re buying. But yeah, I wouldn’t bother adding them all.
If you do add any of the variants, it would be very helpful to add clear disambiguation comments and an image of the CD.
that’s what I was thinking, something like Style ver. / Jihyo CD. i was already planning on trying to scan another cd with an incorrect catalog number lol so i’ll do them at the same time. might eventually scan the rest of my collection too as a lot of them have nice art work!
Someone who deals with the crazy number of physical versions in KPop is @wtfislibrious (Not sure if they have forum notifications on) If you look at their releases added you’ll see they just did a ton of aespa versions for Lemonade < Editor “wtfislibrious” - MusicBrainz >
When there are big numbers of combinations like this it is worth adding a note to the Release Group annotation explaining the likely combinations.
holy shit their edit stats. i salute both of you for how much you’ve contributed omg. idk if i’ll ever get to that level, for now i’m just focusing on my own collection (recently restarted my project of copying my cds but i just switched to linux and my default music player uses MB for identification, hence all the disk IDs i’ve been adding)
good idea, i’ll do that now
This is the way. Now please remove all those high sugar lemonades 
i think this is a different case though, because for the album i’m talking about, these are only possible combinations, of which i added a confirmed one. in the case of lemonade, these are all versions that definitely exist. not that i’m advocating for there being so many different versions (i love the albums i have that are the only physical version), i just don’t see anything wrong with documenting their existence
I agree that fully documenting something that is in your hand is superior to reading a sales catalogue and just listing every combo that may exist. I would not stop someone from doing that, but better to really verify something.