[mb-style] Classical releases titles should be sleeves' title or reflect the whole content of release ?

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:36:15PM +0200, Thomas Tholén wrote:
> I can't see how we would want anything else that the title (that would be
> what's printed on the release, IMO) in the title field. If the release is
> called different things in different places, then that's a problem of
> course, but those are best solved case-by-case, and preferably by chosing
> one of the possible titles, not by making up a completely new one only
> because releases with the same music usually are called that way. That will
> make it more difficult to find your exact release than necessary.

Because frequently (but not always) classical releases don't have a
clear "title".  Instead the cover has work titles, composer names and
performer names scattered across it, divided more or less randomly
between 4 or 5 level of prominence.

Even when there is a distinct title, sometimes it's so generic as to
be far from unique ("Famous Works", "Great Works for <insert
instrument here>", "Favourite Arias by <composer>" and so forth).

So "always use the title" isn't so much wrong, as unhelpful in practice...

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