This keeps coming up and I hate it. ExtraTitleInformationStyle says "If the release is a single, of course one of the tracks is going to be the album version". I think this is completely wrong. A single does not necessarily have to include an album version and to me, the 'default' version on a single is the *single* version, given that it's, well, a single. Also, an album also does not necessarily have to include all songs from a single, so there may not even *be* an album version in existence. A single also need not include a single version, and if it does, it doesn't necessarily have to be labelled as such. By removing '(album version)', we're making it completely ambiguous. Is it an unlabelled single version? Is it an album version? Is it a mistakenly unlabelled remix, edit or live version?
We're also being inconsistent, LiveTrackStyle says tracks should not contain (live) as the release status is live. Surely, by this logic, we should not remove (album version) from singles and remove (single version) instead. I personally don't like removing any of the version information from singles, they can and do contain so many different versions (single, album, live, radio edit, etc.) that you can't really say any particular version is the default. So why should album version be assumed to be the default version for singles and not live albums? --Nikki P.S. Won't we have to go back and add (album version) back to all the singles once we have NGS? _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
