Comment by JohnFen
2 days ago
> MusicBrainz's (former?) policy where everything must be Title Cased regardless of how it's presented on the CD sleeve.
Is that why that happens? It was always a baffling thing to me and required manual correction (and is one of the sorts of errors that made MusicBrainz less useful).
Part of the difficulty is that artists/labels aren't always consistent about the formatting of song titles. Its not uncommon for the capitalization to vary between the back cover of the CD, the printing on the CD itself and the liner notes. And then you have variations between releases of the same CD, and digital releases where the file metadata, and the store listing, and the artist website also all vary. So I can't blame MusicBrainz for choosing to normalize by default. Ideally, you could use normalized case for the Recording and Work song titles, and then stylized for the Release song titles, but most people don't go to that level of detail when entering songs.
Oh, I understand the problem, and I don't blame them either. However, it is a part of why these services stopped being useful to me.