[mb-users] making discs in a series be consistent (some existing, some new)?

[David Hampton]

I have essentially the same question about organizing the "Capitol
Sings..." series of CDs into a consistent scheme.  Two different title
formats are currently used both in MB and at Amazon.  They are:

	Capitol sings <artist>: <song name by artist> 
	<song name by artist>: Capitol sings <artist>

for example:

	Capitol sings Cole Porter: Anything Goes
	Fascinatin' Rhythm: Capitol sings George Gershwin	

http://musicbrainz.org/release/931c5bcb-9952-4faf-a5cd-e5ebc4148f6d.html
http://musicbrainz.org/release/a989eb83-2dd0-4aa7-8940-ca97033139fd.html


Looking at the album covers the largest text is by far the artist name
(with "Capitol Sings" in a medium size, and the song name in a small
size) so I thing that the "Capitol sings <artist>: <song name by
artist>" format is probably the right choice.  This would also allow
some of the newer titles in the series like "Capitol sings Broadway:
Makin' Whoopee" to sort together with the rest of the series.

David


On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 11:25 -0700, George Hartzell wrote:
> Amazon has a bunch of them and is inconsistent about including the
> "Music That Matters to {Him,Her}.
> 
> I think all of these disks should use the same scheme and so I have
> the following two questions:
> 
>   a) I think that "<Artist Name> artist's choice" is the Right Thing
>      To Do, since it matches the jewel case spine, is less wordy,
>      respects the publisher's capitalization, and doesn't include the
>      marketing tagline "music that matters to {him,her}"
> 
>   b) assuming there's a consensus on The Right Thing To Do, should I
>      just go in and make the edits and let the voting proceed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> g.
> 
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