Re: Extra Title Information on recordings
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:01 PM, ChurruKa <churruka@...> wrote:
> Since NGS went live I have been moving Extra Title Information form Recording
> titles to the disambiguation comment, but on a recent edit I made (
> http://musicbrainz.org/edit/16029660 ) mihhkel asked me why I was doing it
> and, well... I could not find a guideline for it, so I'm asking about it
> here.
The only guideline for ETI is live, which should be moved to recording
comments in a specific way as indicated in
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases#Live_recordings
For the rest, there's nothing, and a lot of people explicitly are
against moving a lot of ETI to comments - although stuff like "album
version" or "single version" is probably safe to move, especially if
not indicated as such in all releases.
> Now in NGS, should Extra Title Information be part of title or part of the
> disambiguation comment? I think, as the field name says, the title should
> only have the Works title(s) normalized (separated by slashes when two or
> more songs are on the same recording, with medley title if it has one, etc)
> while "extra" info. ("live", "edit", etc) should be put on the
> disambiguation comment (so usually different performances of the same song
> have the same recording titles and different disambiguation comments).
>
> In either case, I think http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Recording should be
> updated so it explicelty says to keep ETI on title or move to disambiguation
> (though a RFC would be needed for this...)
>
> Happy New Year :)
>
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