Should a remix album be in the same release group as the original album?

[paulakreuzer]

Here are two related discussions, one about remix singles:

Should different remix singles be merged into one release group?

There’s a debate about whether or not to merge these remix singles into one release group. edit #41866511 As I mentioned on the edit, I believe it’s better for releases like those to be grouped together rather than having a release group for each of them, after all, isn’t that the purpose of a release group?

and one about different language versions of the same album:

Same album sung in different languages on MusicBrainz

Hello, A few days ago, I initiated a procedure of fusion between several albums of OST of the film “The princess and the frog” of Disney. See https://musicbrainz.org/edit/44908044, https://musicbrainz.org/edit/44900185 & https://musicbrainz.org/edit/44900176. In fact, these are releases of countries with different languages and some songs have language changes from one album to another. The member chabreyflint showed me the following guideline: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Release_Group w…

It seems there is no general consensus about any of this yet.

But just from a MetaBrainz user’s point of view: If I wondered whether there was a remix version of a specific album I’d search in that album’s release group and not go to the artist and scroll down to the remix albums. There I’d rather expect albums with random remixes.

info for me

If within the next 6 days a consensus is found and it is to not merge remix albums into their original album’s release groups I’ll cancel these edits:
Edit #51540254 - MusicBrainz
Edit #51543574 - MusicBrainz
Edit #51543600 - MusicBrainz