[mb-style] RFC: UntitledReleaseStyle

[Bogdan Butnaru]

On 7/25/06, Chris Bransden <chris at whenironsattack.com> wrote:
> I would also include a mention of
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SplitReleaseTitleStyle as an exception.

Will do.

> Perhaps also it would be wise to say something about untitled singles?
> Bit of a grey area as we don't seem to worry much about vinyl (which
> is the common offender - eg 7inches in plain sleeves) but i'd say
> something like:
> Untitled singles should be named after the A side, except in event of
> a double A side, in which case the title should be that of both track
> names, split by a space, slash, space. If you are not sure whether the
> release is a double A side or not, use the latter method.

I didn't go into that because I'm aware there's lots of conventions
about singles that I'm not familiar with. To me a 'single' is a
release of a song, sometimes with other bonus tracks (remixes of the
single-song or not), and I'd just name it by its 'single song'. Which
is a quite simplistic view, apparently. If you feel yourself more 'in
the know' please go ahead and add a note.

BTW, I remember I saw many single releases of song "Some Song" where
the _release_ is titled "Some Song" and the _tracklist_ contains only
the remix names (1. Album version / 2. DJ X remix / 3. radio edit /
etc). These are often entered this way instead of adding the song name
to each track, which I view as 'the right way'. Perhaps we should have
a SingleStyle that mentions all this kind of details, and just link to
that. But I don't know enough about singles to write it.

-- Bogdan Butnaru — bogdanb at gmail.com
"I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O.


> On 25/07/06, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a request for comments on the new UntitledReleaseStyle*
> > proposed guideline. The rationale from my initial proposal is below.
> >
> > *) http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/UntitledReleaseStyle