Re: [mb-users] Language of track titles

Wieland Hoffmann <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:53:41 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hallo Greg Ward:
> Hi all --
> 
> I'm comparing
> 
>   http://musicbrainz.org/release/881b0e35-6e2f-3294-a5c4-acb0bf92e1df
> 
> [...]
> 
> What's the style policy here? Should I change the release title and
> track titles in MBZ to Hungarian, or keep them English?

I don't think we have any guidelines covering this, but I'd keep the
release and track title as they are and change the language of the
release to english, simply because this MBID has had english titles
behind it for 11 years.

You can then create a new release with the hungarian titles and link the
two with the "translated" relationship [0] which does cover cases like
this:

> All translated and transliterated versions of a release should be
> linked to a single official release. If there is more than one
> official release, use the version which has titles in the artist's
> native language as the release to which a link is made.

[0] https://musicbrainz.org/relationship/fc399d47-23a7-4c28-bfcf-0607a562b644

-- 
Wieland