Re: [mb-users] Language of track titles

Hallo Frederic Da Vitoria:
> 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.

Well, I'm not sure what alternatives there are. The release clearly
lists both english and hungarian titles [0], so neither of them are more
correct or official than the others. Unless you want to include both
languages in one tracklist, there's not much we can do other than
creating a new release with the hungarian tracklist.

[0] http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=617418

-- 
Wieland