ALright so i was organizing my music and i noticed that Music Match Jukebox organized my CD and when i open the CD booklet, some of the songs were different. So i searched In the Mix Volume 2 on the internet and it came up with a 2xCD....well i only have the version with only 1 disc...can anyone tell me what version i have...here are the links

My Version

Other Version

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i noticed this shit awhile ago.
info from discogs ...

http://www.discogs.com/release/335201
in the mix v2, australia release is one disc.

there are two other in the mix v2 releases.

http://www.discogs.com/release/223432
double disc release to germany.

http://www.discogs.com/release/264505
3 disc release also in germany.

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yea but theres a problem....i only have 18 songs on mine...i live in maryland, so i dont see why i would have the austrailian version....thanks for lettin me know that.....oh and by the way, why do they do that?

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"Have nothing in your home unless you know it to be useful or believe it to be beautiful." - John Ruskin (He was talking about records!)

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Daniel Boorstin: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge

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Originally posted by Liquid Fusion oh and by the way, why do they do that?

1. cost effective.
2. make u look dumb.

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how is it cost effective.....is it because certain countries tend to like different songs or what?....and making you look dumb actually works lol

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Happiness is an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.- Thomas Hardy

"Have nothing in your home unless you know it to be useful or believe it to be beautiful." - John Ruskin (He was talking about records!)

quote:

Daniel Boorstin: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge

The reason for the different versions are license problems.

Especially with bigger names it is mostly so that the track gets released from different record labels in different countries. So the rights for a track are with different record labels. If you wanna release now on a world wide compilation you get there some problems.

For example I wanna release a compilation in Germany / Europe and wanna have a track from Paul van Dyk. I go to Vandit and ask permission to use the track on my compilation. They say okay.

If I wanna release the same compilation now also in the USA or Asia I get the problems as the rights for the same Paul van Dyk track in the USA is e.g. not with Vandit it is with the record label XX as Vandit licensed the track to them for a US release.

The US record label plans e.g. to use it exclusive on a own compilation. If Blank & Jones come now with their compilation and wanna release it in the USA, they can't as they have no permission for this in the USA as they first have to get the permission from the US label aswell. As this is way to much paperwork and sometimes you also don't get the license in one contry, they made it so that they made one time the compilation for the german, austria, switzerland marked where they have the permission for all songs. (2 CD Version / 3 CD Version (Limited Edition)). Then they made one version for the international marked with only songs they got the world wide rights for. (1 CD Version).

This was in the past more often so. Nowdays you see that you only take songs on your CD where you get the world wide rights for as in the end this is much less work. Expect you wanna release the CD only in one country.

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dude that was alot of help...thanks!

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Happiness is an occasional episode in the general drama of pain.- Thomas Hardy

"Have nothing in your home unless you know it to be useful or believe it to be beautiful." - John Ruskin (He was talking about records!)

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Daniel Boorstin: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge

I own all three volumes of The Mix and I imported all of them in order to get the full release. It sucks to have to import, but it's well worth it in the end.