On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Mark Trolley <marktrol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd like to know what the correct handling of multiple releases of the > same song with different (misspelled?) names. > > The edits in question are: > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=14061231 > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=14058965 > > The issue involves the song "Zyclone B Bath House" by NOFX. It was > originally released on "Fat Club" with the title spelled this way. > > The song was then re-released on a NOFX compilation, "45 or 46 Songs > That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records", with the title > spelled "Zyclone B Bathouse" > (http://www.nofxwiki.net/w/Image:22S_B-ASideCU.jpg). > > The song was again re-released on a Fat Wreck Chords compilation, > "Wrecktrospective", with the title spelled "Zyklone B Bathouse". > > What is the correct way to handle this? Should all the track names be > consistent using the spelling as it was first released, or should each > release use the spelling exactly as it appears on that release?
Currently, we tend to do the former. With NGS almost here, though, I'd opt for the latter: keep them all as in the cover, and maybe leave an annotation to standardize them later at the recording level, which is the way it will be done in NGS. > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
