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==Detailed guidelines with examples== |
==Detailed guidelines with examples== |
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===Capitalization=== |
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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. |
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===Sub Titles=== |
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Revision as of 16:27, 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 from the title itself
Detailed guidelines with examples
Follow the appropriate Capitalization Standard
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.
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 from the title itself
Exceptions
Notes
The intent for this page is to replace the following wiki pages:
MainTitle, SubTitle, SubTitleStyle, MultipleTitleStyle, SplitReleaseTitleStyle, SeriesNumberStyle, VolumeNumberStyle, PartNumberStyle, AbbreviationStyle.
