Re: [mb-users] Should catalog numbers be capitalised?

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There's not a specific guideline written down, since mb-style is
an intractable waste of time :P.

Common practice varies a bit by context, but the general thing to follow
is what would be the most common or most useful form. For contexts where
there's a particular standardization this usually corresponds to that
standardization form -- e.g., for a lot of japanese music, the industry
there has a format with four letters, a hyphen, and then a variable
number of numbers. For those, I'd probably always input them as four
capital letters, a hyphen, and then the numbers. On the other hand, most
other places in the world don't have a particular standardization, so
common practice (both in MB and for places like digital stores) is to
use the number as printed. Some labels also impose their own
standardizations which can be considered, though this is less common.

So I'd advise following common practice, and in general trying to enter
the catalog number that is in the form most likely to be useful as a key
into other databases.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 03:48:30PM -0700, lixobix wrote:
> Should catalog numbers be capitalised, or should they be entered as shown?
> Was thinking about this earlier (not sure what I've been doing all this
> time), but couldn't find any guidance in the documentation.
>
> Maybe it's stated somewhere obvious and I've missed it!
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