[mb-style] Does cover beat website?

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Z <johnnyooh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently a user entered some changes on track titles, I thought they were a
> bit strange so I searched for the back cover and found that the tracks were
> OK as they were and the edits were wrong. I voted no and posted the link to
> the back covers, the author of the edits then left notes with a link to the
> artist's official website where the edits were indeed right. Does back
> sleeve beat website as a source everytime, as if it were
> rock-paper-scissors? Is it a matter of intuition (to know which one shows
> artist intent and which one was made by a company's graphic designer)?
> Here are the links to the edits:
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=9024357
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=9024332
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=9024329
>

I this case I am not sure the website is really the artist's, I believe this
is the editor's website.

For the first track, I'd stick to the cover, because I believe that the
website forgot the brackets. For the second, I don't know. Only the artist
would know (this means either find a written comment from the artist about
this album or this track, or even writing a mail to him). For the third
track, I'd definitely vote NO, since the new version isn't closer to the
editor's source (I see "Vamonos pal sur" on
http://www.jsabina.com/disco05/disco.asp , not "Vámonos pa'l sur"). BTW,
there are several other differences in accents between
http://www.jsabina.com/disco05/disco.asp and the cover, which is best? I
don't know spanish, but I have a hunch the website is a little sloppy, which
would mean it is not a reliable reference.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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