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===Capitalization===
===Capitalization===


Album and song titles are often found in uppercase on the back cover of CDs. For example, the album [[http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/964ccc52-2873-3bce-a806-73d71532c539.html|Songs of Love and Hate]] by Leonard Cohen is written as SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE on the cover. This is usually the choice of a graphic designer, not the artist. So, instead of copying the title from the cover, we follow certain rules to capitalize a title. There rules are different for each language, please see [[Capitalization_Standard]] for more information.
Album and song titles are often found in uppercase on the back cover of CDs. For example, the album [[http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/964ccc52-2873-3bce-a806-73d71532c539.html Songs of Love and Hate]] by Leonard Cohen is written as SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE on the cover. This is usually the choice of a graphic designer, not the artist. So, instead of copying the title from the cover, we follow certain rules to capitalize a title. There rules are different for each language, please see [[Capitalization_Standard]] for more information.


===Sub Titles===
===Sub Titles===

Revision as of 16:14, 8 November 2009

Titles

When entering a release or track title into MusicBrainz, please adhere to the following guidelines:

  • Follow the appropriate Capitalization_Standard
  • Use a colon (:) to separate multi-line parts
  • Use a slash (/) to seperate multiple titles
  • Expand abbreviations
  • Use a comma (,) to seperate words such as Volume or Part when the release or song is part of a series

Detailed guidelines with examples

Capitalization

Album and song titles are often found in uppercase on the back cover of CDs. For example, the album [Songs of Love and Hate] by Leonard Cohen is written as SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE on the cover. This is usually the choice of a graphic designer, not the artist. So, instead of copying the title from the cover, we follow certain rules to capitalize a title. There rules are different for each language, please see Capitalization_Standard for more information.

Sub Titles

Exceptions

Notes

The intent for this page is to replace the following wiki pages:

MainTitle, SubTitle, SubTitleStyle, MultipleTitleStyle, SplitReleaseTitleStyle, SeriesNumberStyle, VolumeNumberStyle, PartNumberStyle, AbbreviationStyle.