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The title of a recording should be the most commonly used title for official tracks featuring the recording. If there are no official tracks (tracks from official albums), just use the most common title from all the tracks featuring the recording. For a standalone recording, use the title given by the source. |
The title of a recording should be the most commonly used title for official tracks featuring the recording. If there are no official tracks (tracks from official albums), just use the most common title from all the tracks featuring the recording. For a standalone recording, use the title given by the source. |
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If the chosen track title contains [[Style/Titles/Extra_title_information|extra title information]] (ETI), it should be kept with the recording, either as part of the title or as a disambiguation comment. |
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If the ETI is only for the purposes of disambiguation, then this should be moved to the disambiguation comment (typical examples include "live", "original", "demo", "alternate take", "instrumental"). By contrast, if the ETI seems to be part of the name of the recording, leave it in parentheses in the recording title (typical examples include a mix name). |
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Note that often ETI on tracks is only included in the track title because tracks have no disambiguation field. In these cases, move the ETI to the disambiguation. For example "(live)". |
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See the [[Style/Titles|title guidelines]] for general information about titles. |
See the [[Style/Titles|title guidelines]] for general information about titles. |
Revision as of 20:57, 12 August 2013
Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official. |
JIRA ticket http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-230 |
To replace http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Recording#Title:
Title
The title of a recording should be the most commonly used title for official tracks featuring the recording. If there are no official tracks (tracks from official albums), just use the most common title from all the tracks featuring the recording. For a standalone recording, use the title given by the source.
If the chosen track title contains extra title information (ETI), it should be kept with the recording, either as part of the title or as a disambiguation comment.
If the ETI is only for the purposes of disambiguation, then this should be moved to the disambiguation comment (typical examples include "live", "original", "demo", "alternate take", "instrumental"). By contrast, if the ETI seems to be part of the name of the recording, leave it in parentheses in the recording title (typical examples include a mix name).
See the title guidelines for general information about titles.
Examples
- The majority of the official tracks using …Baby One More Time are called "…Baby One More Time", so the recording title should be …Baby One More Time (not "Baby One More Time" or "…Baby One More Time (radio version)").
- Mailman, Bring Me More Blues is actually the song "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues", but because the only track using it is on a Bootleg release, that track title should be used as the recording title.