I really don't want *identical* tracks to have different Titles. If the track was *originally* released on an album then the *identical* song on a Single release should have an *identical* title to the original Album release. Adding "(album version)" makes these songs completely different (when comparing titles, which is what most players & Last.fm do).
I think it is easily assumed that any track on a Single release without any special attributes (live)/(acoustic)/(demo)/(remix)/(edit) is a song which has been previously recorded or is not live/acoustic/a demo/remixed/edited version of the orginal. I think this is obvious because Albums are the primary releases of ~99% of artists and a Single usually highlights a specific song from an existing album. I just think the original release is the most important, so its seems ridiculous to have an identical song released on a single and have it titled with (album version). Just think about a Single that has 3 or 4 songs from an existing album - which is not overly rare. We will have a single with titles: "St. Anger (edit)", "St. Anger (album version)", "The Unnamed Feeling (album version)", "Some Kind of Monster (album version)", "Frantic (album version)", "St. Anger (live)". Wouldn't that seem crazy? If the songs exist identically on an Album already, I think they should be titled identically. A (single version) is an edited version of an original song so I definitely will argue that it should not drop its attributes to look like the original. Ugh... -Aaron (cooperaa) On 6/18/06, Nikki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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