By marsl on

Hi everyone. I’m new to drupal and before I dive deeper into it I'll study some common technics used on other drupal installations. I wondering what is the best way to build a content type for a music album. The album has a name and some meta information and contains an arbitrary number of tracks. Should I use cck with node reference to the tracks ore build this in one cck content-type? If yes, doesn't the input of the Data (Create Album, Create Tracks, Connect them) not a little bit complicated?

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I would suggest that you create one content type for instance "Music Album". Add all of your cck fields and group them. The reason why I would suggest one over multiple content types with node reference connecting them, is because it provides one easy interface for creating the content type. With the node reference, you can use the node add and reference module, however for ease of use, it would be better to just work with one content type and focus on styling the one form. You could also use modules such as "Field Group Tabs" to group the sections separately. Or something like CCK Wizard to add breaks to the form, so data can be entered one page at a time. Hope this helps.