I’ve recently acquired a single disc release called “Chrono Trigger Orchestral Arrangement”. There’s no indication it’s part of a box set; it was sold as a standalone item.
While searching for the disc on MusicBrainz I came across Chrono Orchestral Arrangement, a three disc box set with a close, but different name. I had never heard of the box set before, but when looking at its details there are three discs, each with a name. The disc I have matches the name of the first disc in that box set. Unfortunately, the disc IDs aren’t available in the box set entry so I can’t tell if they’re the exact same disc. The catalog numbers, however, are different. The box set lists SQEX-10727, SQEX-10728, SQEX-10729, while the standalone release I have is SQEX-10724.
I think the history is that the box set was a limited edition release of two separate soundtracks, “Chrono Trigger Orchestral Arrangement” and “Chrono Cross Orchestral Arrangement”, with a bonus box set-only disc in it. Discs 1 & 2 are now sold separately as standalone works.
How should I handle this? On the one hand, my disc seems quite related to the box set. On the other, it’s a complete, standalone release with a different name. I’ve search the forum and the only similar case I found was related to how a historical artifact of how MusicBrainz used to track discs.
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Hi!
This should be a separate release and release group, but almost certainly reusing the tracklist and recordings. Just add a new release, but when you get to the Tracklist bit, do “Existing medium” and find the existing CD 
That should also save you a lot of typing.
Once you’ve done that, attach the discID (it’s probably easier if you do this without the discID first since I’m not 100% sure what happens if you try to combine a seeded discID and the “existing medium” tool), and link the two release groups to indicate this is “included in” the bigger set.
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Thanks. I finally got back around to this. I’ve added two new release groups:
I’d appreciate if you could take a look and see if I did this correctly. I’ve included the UPC code and catalog ID for each release and I’ve attached the disc IDs.
The cover art was a bit funny. I don’t have the box set I mentioned earlier, but it looks it includes the same liner notes and tray inserts from the standalone releases. I copied over cover art from the box set to each of the individual releases, making note of the origin in the edit comment. It looks like someone had manually scanned everything from the box set and I don’t want to lay claim to their work. I’m hoping this is okay. I then scanned the obi strips for both of the standalone releases and added those.
Another detail I wasn’t sure if I handled correctly is the liner notes and song titles appear both in Japanese and English (one is even in French, but I think that’s for flair). I opted to use the English titles but linked back to the releases, which were in Japanese. I think the box set used a pseudo release to handle both. If I’ve handled this incorrectly, please let me know.
Thanks for the help.
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You can link these new release groups to the compilation with an is included in relationship.
Also, the release you have added are Latin transcription pseudo-releases (you should keep that French subtitle).
Keep the scans, disc ID, and all metadata for original releases.
Pseudo-releases should only contain alternative titles and artist credits (here in Latin).
But as you have already set everything, now the most simple is to clone these as new pseudo-releases, then turn yours into original releases with their genuine titles and artist credits.
Update: @nirvdrum, have a look, I did what I described above: 32 edits
They are all fixed and linked from the main release group:
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