Comment by amiga386
2 days ago
> policy where everything must be Title Cased regardless of how it's presented on the CD sleeve
If the music artist decided how it should be on the CD sleeve, and you can show that, then you can go with that. But more often than not, the sleeve is done by the record company's graphic designers, not the music artist.
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Titles
> Album and song titles are often found in upper‐case on the back cover of CDs. For example, the album Songs of Love and Hate is written as “SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE” on the cover. This is usually the choice of a graphic designer, not the artist. So, instead of copying the title from the cover, we follow certain rules to capitalize a title.
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Principle/Error_correction...
> Error Correction: There are many cases of record companies incorrectly reproducing titles or even artist names, or breaking generally accepted rules of usage for stylistic purposes. In such cases it often makes sense to fix errors and standardize irregularities, valuing correct spelling, punctuation and grammar over faithfulness to the printed release cover.
> Artist Intent: Artists sometimes choose to present names and titles in ways that deliberately contradict the rules of the language they're in (e.g. unorthodox spellings) and/or the MusicBrainz Style Guidelines. To describe the way we handle such choices, we use the term "artist intent." The general idea is that if an artist intended something to be written in a special way, then MusicBrainz should follow that intent. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find out what an artist intended. If you want to claim that some deviation from the Style Guidelines should be considered artist intent, the burden of proof lies on you.
Seems reasonable. I'd think this should be pretty straightforward for songs new enough to be released online. If it's capitalized a certain way on Spotify, that's almost certainly what the artist intended.