[mb-users] Here's a fun one - album title

[Kuno Woudt]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:25:23AM -0600, Jason Bouwmeester wrote:
> This can be referenced at:
> http://soulwax.com/contentpages/29_nwcd2/nwcd.jpg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_of_the_Remixes
> 
> So... I know entering it as such is going to cause tagging issues as the
> title is some 540+ characters long, but the issue shouldn't be what it is
> going to do to tagging, but how accurate the entry is - isn't that correct?

Yes, tagging issues should be solved in the tagger.

> Upon further research, I noticed that the previous apparent record holder
> for longest title is this entry by Fiona Apple for When the Pawn (
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/7c91e407-028c-4c22-ae5e-ebdda29858f3.html) -
> so it got me thinking that the entry might be o.k. as "Most of the
> Remixes..." with the real title in the annotation? Based on this as well,
> shouldn't the Fiona Apple entry titles actually be "When the Pawn..."?

If the full title doesn't fit due to technical constraints (does
musicbrainz have a 255 character limit on album titles?), I would use
whatever shorthand the release is commonly known as.  But I don't
think there is a guideline on it, and if this title doesn't fit a
bug should be filed and hopefully fixed at some point.

-- kuno.