[mb-style] [CSG] Short form CSG (was Re: Bach passions and CSG)

[symphonick]

Another thing I think we need to decide: what tracklist should be used
when there are more than one? Quite often there's a more detailed
tracklist in the booklet [than on the backside of the cover]. Should
the editor be able to decide freely which to use, or do we have a
preference for one or the other?

Here's a couple of scans: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=1282710
In this case most of the titles on the cover are unusable, so
something has to be done... But other times the difference between
cover & booklet can be just opus nos., and/or different languages. Or
the level of detail increases:

Cover:
2. Gerne will ich mich bequemen
   (Matthäuspassion)

Booklet (tracklist):
Matthäuspassion BWV 244
St. Matthew Passion - Passion selon Saint-Matthieu
2. 23. Arie >>Gerne will ich mich bequemen<<
   Text: Picander (= Christian Friedrich Henrici)

(& what to do when the booklet & cover is lost? Worklist-titles?)

2008/3/22, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brant Gibbard <bgibbard at ca.inter.net>
> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> >  > From: musicbrainz-style-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
> >  > [mailto:musicbrainz-style-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On
> >  > Behalf Of Brian Schweitzer
> >  > Sent: March-22-08 7:20 AM
> >  > To: MusicBrainz style discussion
> >  > Subject: Re: [mb-style] [CSG] Short form CSG (was Re: Bach
> >  > passions and CSG)
> >  >
> >  > While we're discussing what guidelines for tracks to use, let
> >  > me toss out one other possiblity, something I know I've seen
> >  > at least a few dozen times...  What about misidentified
> >  > works?  Not typos, not simply "correct work but not enough to
> >  > really ID it", but true misidentifications?
> >  >
> >
> >  My preference would be to correct outright errors, and put the correct
> >  identification (or at least "current interpretation") in the titles, but
> >  make a note of the mis- or outdated- identification in an annotation to
> >  reduce the likelihood of others with the same recording not realizing and
> >  perpetuating the discrepancy.
> >
>
> That is exactly what we do for rock albums.
>
> Off the top of my head here's one I know well:
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/ec296c98-a954-4ae2-9e50-40ec6753c6c3.html
>
> In that case, the cover and liners inexplicably list a track that
> isn't even on the album, and put it right  in the middle of the album,
> offsetting the second half of the tracklist by one song, and messing
> up the titles of some of the others..
>
> Our tracklisting is accurate against the actual content of the album,
> however.
>
> --
> Lauri Watts
>
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