Re: [mb-users] Alternative release titles
Tom Crocker <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:52:04 +0100
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--===============0637078144== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b872e9a47fabb0501a36e5c --047d7b872e9a47fabb0501a36e5c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 27 Aug 2014 17:35, "Calvin Walton" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 11:29 -0700, lixobix wrote: > > Per Starb=C3=A4ck wrote > > > 2014-08-24 21:35 GMT+02:00 lixobix <> > > > > > > > > > So should "Old Tunes vol. 1" be part of the title, put in the > > > > disambiguation > > > > field, or in the annotation?> > > > > I think alternative titles would be good to have. Even official > > > releases can have inofficial titles like that, the obvious example > > > being "The White Album" by Beatles. But where I have mostly felt a > > > need for alternative titles is when there are (slightly) different > > > titles on the release, for example on front cover, on spine, and > > > on > > > disc.> > > > > The question then is where that alt. title should go. Should it be in > > brackets after the main title, or should it be in the disambiguation > > comment? > I wonder if it might make sense to look into adding an aliases system > at the release group level to store these types of alternate titles, > fan titles, etc; similar to how we use them for search hints on artist > names. Definitely. And not only for releases. Does anyone know if there's a ticket for this? It's not the first time it's come up. > > This would be a longer-term (schema change) goal, though; and it > doesn't resolve the immediate issue. I'm not sure how this should be handled for now. It should probably go in the annotation but that won't help for searches I guess? For tracks I've seen Foo (aka Bar) on releases. But I don't think it would be good to add that to the title in these cases nor to the disambiguation because that's not what the disambiguation is for... --047d7b872e9a47fabb0501a36e5c Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><p dir=3D"ltr"><br> On 27 Aug 2014 17:35, "Calvin Walton" <<a href=3D"mailto:calvi= [email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>> wro= te:<br> ><br> ><br> > On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 11:29 -0700, lixobix wrote:<br> > > Per Starb=C3=A4ck wrote<br> > > >=C2=A0 2014-08-24 21:35 GMT+02:00 lixobix &lt;><br> > > > > ><br> > > > >=C2=A0 So should "Old Tunes vol. 1" be part of= the title, put in the<br> > > > >=C2=A0 disambiguation<br> > > > >=C2=A0 field, or in the annotation?> ><br> > > >=C2=A0 I think alternative titles would be good to have. Even= official<br> > > >=C2=A0 releases can have inofficial titles like that, the obv= ious example<br> > > >=C2=A0 being "The White Album" by Beatles. But wher= e I have mostly felt a<br> > > >=C2=A0 need for alternative titles is when there are (slightl= y) different<br> > > >=C2=A0 titles on the release, for example on front cover, on = spine, and<br> > > > on<br> > > >=C2=A0 disc.> > ><br> > > The question then is where that alt. title should go. Should it b= e in<br> > > brackets after the main title, or should it be in the disambiguat= ion<br> > > comment?<br> > I wonder if it might make sense to look into adding an aliases system<= br> > at the release group level to store these types of alternate titles,<b= r> > fan titles, etc; similar to how we use them for search hints on artist= <br> > names.</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">Definitely. And not only for releases. Does anyone know if t= here's a ticket for this? It's not the first time it's come up.= </p> <p dir=3D"ltr">><br> > This would be a longer-term (schema change) goal, though; and it<br> > doesn't resolve the immediate issue.</p><p>I'm not sure how th= is should be handled for now. It should probably go in the annotation but t= hat won't help for searches I guess? For tracks I've seen Foo (aka = Bar) on releases. But I don't think it would be good to add that to the= title in these cases nor to the disambiguation because that's not what= the disambiguation is for...<br> </p> </div> --047d7b872e9a47fabb0501a36e5c-- --===============0637078144== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-users --===============0637078144==--