![]() ![]() The FreeDB system we're losing allows me to share my tags alongside the Title Cased version, so everyone can be happy: obviously aesthetically lower-cased on the actual album I'm holding in real life: Here's an example from Scotland: bis' 2007 CD+DVD greatest hits release. For this reason, words in the Latin script on a Japanese release should be in the same case as on the album art if other available sources, such as official discography or record label pages, are consistent not normalized according to English or other capitalization standards."īut then _that_ guideline rubs me the wrong way, implying "capitalization and punctuation for aesthetic reasons" is exclusive to one culture, and letting record labels and marketing materials override the artistic work itself. Japanese artists have a tendency to choose capitalization and punctuation for aesthetic reasons and to be very consistent regarding case over all releases. "Although the Japanese script has no capitalization, it is very common for Japanese titles to contain words in other scripts. This is the relevant Musicbrainz guideline that didn't used to exist: For an example, compare the same album described on Musicbrainz. I say "used to" because they have both gotten better on that issue, but a good percentage of the older data was entered under the old Title Case Only guidelines and remains that way. Super super common on Japanese releases, and both MB and Discogs used to have rules specifically banning anything except Camel Cased English Literary Title style. I have many CDs with track or artist names in ALL CAPS ENGLISH SHOUTING style. Title capitalization, my most frequent hassle. I have that problem with a lot of my CDs from Sire or Tommy Boy Records where the post-1985 pressings are distributed under Reprise with a new date. "Year" tags when an album's slightly-staggered multi-region release overlaps a year boundary, or when a different label has re-released a bit-identical disc with packaging labeled a different year. "Featured artists" in the title tag vs in the Artist tag (vs not listed at all?) According to Discogs half my CDs belong in a single bucked labeled "Folk, World, & Country" For me this usually manifests in ways such as (but not limited to): I totally understand how some people would consider that a burden, but I smile any time I get to choose from a few entries on FreeDB because one of them will always be substantially closer to my ideal. edit 6892422: )."Īrguing with other music nerds on the Internet about which one of us has the Factually Correct Tags is not my idea of fun, and FreeDB avoids this problem by supporting multiple entries for any given disc. The best evidence would be a statement of intent by the artist (e.g. A seeming error may be considered evidence of artist intent if it is consistently found on all of an artist's official releases. If you want to claim that some deviation from the Style Guidelines should be considered artist intent, the burden of proof lies on you. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find out what an artist intended. To describe the way we handle such choices, we use the term 'artist intent.' The general idea is that if an artist intended something to be written in a special way, then MusicBrainz should follow that intent. unorthodox spellings) and/or the MusicBrainz Style Guidelines. "Artists sometimes choose to present names and titles in ways that deliberately contradict the rules of the language they're in (e.g. I do love the formatting and structure of MB's Style Guidelines page, but it goes somewhere I dislike from the very first Principles page. They are based around the concept of a single canonical "correct" entry for everything, and their tag formatting guidelines are fundamentally at odds with many of my personal tagging preferences. MusicBrainz and Discogs are wonderful resources, but I consider them complementary to FreeDB more than equivalent. ![]()
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