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Album and song titles are often found in uppercase on the back cover of CDs. For example, the album |
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. |
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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.
