Re: [mb-users] Alternative release titles
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:53:03 +0300
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--===============0140440697== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e014941866f5ba90501b004d2 --089e014941866f5ba90501b004d2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Tom Crocker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-1347 :) --=20 Nicol=C3=A1s Tamargo de Eguren --089e014941866f5ba90501b004d2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On T= hu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Tom Crocker <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"= mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]= </a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-= left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;p= adding-left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D""><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> </div><p dir=3D"ltr">Definitely. And not only for releases. Does anyone kno= w if there's a ticket for this? It's not the first time it's co= me up.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href=3D"http://tickets.= musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-1347">http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-= 1347</a> :)=C2=A0</div> </div><div><br></div>-- <br>Nicol=C3=A1s Tamargo de Eguren </div></div> --089e014941866f5ba90501b004d2-- --===============0140440697== 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 --===============0140440697==--