Re: [mb-users] Language of track titles

2014-07-18 9:53 GMT+02:00 Wieland Hoffmann <[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


I wonder about using translated AR: there is only one release, creating a
new Release in MB would suggest there are 2 physically distinct releases
with different languages, which is not what is happening here.

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Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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