Re: version mention in a track title

2009/3/26 Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg@...>

Ok. Now a little harder, IMO:

http://musicbrainz.org/release/6af6cc90-9bbe-4093-9155-8d2ef8aaa4ff.html for a few songs translated/adapted from other languages gives the original title. On the track listing, the font of the original translation is the same as the Brazilian title, only parentheses separate the original from the Brazilian. Still, I believe this falls under ExtraTitleInformationStyle. But this style says lower case should be used. OTOH, the original titles are Titles and as such should use upper case initials. So who "wins"? Should I enter "Uma bela história (La bohème)" or "Uma bela história (la bohème)"?

 

ExtraTitleInformationStyle: "Additional information on a Release or Track *that is not part of its Main Title, but required to make it distinguishable from different releases* or tracks with the same Main Title (e.g. Track Version), must be entered in parentheses after the Main Title."

The ETI guideline about having the contents of the brackets in lowercase only applies when you're dealing with, ETI. If you look at the emphasized text above, it should be pretty clear that "(La bohème)" doesn't fall under the ETI umbrella because it is not something used to distinguish that particular track from another track of the same name.

I would consider "(La bohème)" to be part of the 'Main Title', which means it should follow its 'Capitalization Standard'.

As for "Watashi (Sapporo 76)" vs. "Watashi (sapporo 76)", I'm not sure, someone else will have to answer that.