On 12 June 2011 12:11, jacobbrett <jacobbr...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
snip...
> In my opinion:
>
> Track/Release Titles:
> * Typographical errors
> * Incorrect titles (e.g. bootleg prints title as a line from the lyrics,
> or two track titles are swapped)
> * Poor capitalisation (ALL-CAPS, all-lowercase etc., barring Artist
> Intent or Japanese/foreign exception)
> * Subtitle (Japanese/foreign exception)
> * Series/Volume/Part numbers (Japanese/foreign exception)
> * Extra title information:
> * "Song Name remix name" → "Song Name (remix name)"
> * "Song Name 〜remix name〜" → no change (Japanese/foreign exception)
> * Some abbreviations:
> * "w/" → "with"
> * "ft." → "feat."
>
> If any affected features "as printed" are important for identifying a
> particular release, a note can be made in the release annotation.
>
This seems a good list of things to clean up. My main use for MB is
to obtain data on a release that has been sanitised and explicitly to
avoid having the title and artist of a track vary between different
releases. If you really want a database of cover replicas, there's
already Discogs.
> I think the above rules would sufficiently retain the titling as intended on
> a particular release, while making it more useful/less erroneous and
> standardised. The recording title could take the above further by having
> further normalisation applied ("with" → "feat."? Perhaps a better example is
> needed here...), as well as Consistent Original Data [1] (so that it would
> act as the "canonical" title).
>
The recording title should be the most complete possible title (i.e.
with all feat. attributions, etc.) and normalised (e.g. with->feat as
you say).
> I previously rationalised some of these points here:
> http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/VolumeNumberStyle-in-NGS-td3573712i20.html#a3588251
>
> [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/History:Consistent_Original_Data
>
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