#musicbrainz

You guys tried Qwant Music search engine?

I tried a few searches... it's kinda bad :/ It could benefit from a little MB help :)

Hi, I noticed https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/0576bc79-... which currently has a secondary type "Live" should actually be "Compilation". Should I change that to "Compilation" ? Or to "Compilation + Live"? (since all songs were recorded live)

I'd say just "compilation" but just to be sure...

My bad, it's actually a live album, not a compilation. I noticed before submitting anything so just ignore what I said :)

Hi guys. What's the proper way to add a transliterated Spotify release, with there being a JP and everything else release with Latin titles?

In other words: if it's official is it a pseudo-release with the release relationship to the original or an official release with a release relationship to the original? If so someone might want to clarify that on https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Language/Tran...

Oh I found it. It should still be clarified in the page I linked above "Pseudo-release should be used for translations or transliterations that do not appear on an actual release"

should a "series" be part of the release title? Personally I'd say no, but people seem to do it: https://musicbrainz.org/release/28ed0d30-f5e4-4...

I'd tag that as a record by "Louis Armstrong" called "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five & Hot Seven: 1925–1928"

but of course it gets more complicated if you take releases of the series that are just the artist, e.g. https://musicbrainz.org/release/20708007-66ff-4... would then be self-titled by Louis Armstrong

But otherwise you have bazillions of releases with the same title by different artists

Is there an easy way to add a bunch of markets?

also, apparently this is a thing https://picrew.me/image_maker/457262

I reported this editor on 2020-05-26 yet they are still going at it: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/74189093 Maybe it's time for some kind of statement by Freso: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/494245

Fun question. Is 5.1 channels of [silence] the same recording as 2 channels of [silence]? https://musicbrainz.org/recording/86ebc857-2689...

is there a physical recording?

Not sure what you mean. They are tracks on a Hybrid SACD. https://musicbrainz.org/release/9f3948d4-4ad1-4...

if there is, the 5.1 file is different from the 2 channel file

Agreed.

so to me, those are different "recordings"

but ymmv

Is there a standard regarding translated titles in a track list? Should they match the CD packaging exactly?

e.g. Original language name [English name] vs. Original language name (English name)

I'm cleaning up a release; the CD packaging has the former while the existing highly-incomplete data has the latter

https://musicbrainz.org/release/85c98716-535b-4... if anyone wants to see

If a title is given only in translation or transliteration, do not use square brackets, e.g. "Yang Ku Tunggu" not "[Yang Ku Tunggu]".

balrog

you can create a pseudo-release I guess with the translated titles

sorry, copy-pasted that by mistake!

(that paragraph)

I've seen loads of releases where the translated title is given in round brackets

here is a good example (if I may say so myself) of an item with a pseudo-release:https://musicbrainz.org/release-...

another example

innu with (trnaslated titles in french and english)

Lotheric: hm... it's a US release for a US audience

I could do a pseudo-release if that's what's prefered