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Re: Unusually difficult track titles

null@example.com (kurushishaqi) — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:58 +0000

Thanks!

Done in Edit #17539994.

Re: Unusually difficult track titles

null@example.com (ym) — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:49:17 +0000

I don't think any long text is and should be an issue to hold it the database.
Of course it will have presentation issues, like showing in a web page or using as a file name.
In those cases, GUI can use ellipsis (...) to cut down the title.
So, I would always want to see full text in a database, please even if it is a book written as song title, do NOT cut it down at database level.

Re: Unusually difficult track titles

null@example.com (mfmeulenbelt) — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:05:36 +0000

I'm not aware of any limit to the length of a recording title. I'd keep the track and recording names the way they were on their respective releases. So the long ones for the original vinyl release and the short ones for the later CD reissue.

Unusually difficult track titles

null@example.com (kurushishaqi) — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:40:27 +0000

Hi! I'm taking about the vinyl release of "Babbacombe" Lee by Fairport Convention. We have this album here http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/39 … 9e8c58d956, and the vinyl version should be this one: http://musicbrainz.org/release/0bed9772 … e848136463

The titles for each one of the five tracks are:

- "John's reflection on his boyhood, his introduction to Miss Keyes and The Glen, his restlessness, and his struggles with his family, finally successful, to join the navy."
- "This was the happiest period in his life. All locked set fair for a career until he was stricken with sickness and invalided out of his chosen niche in life. Reluctantly and unhappily he turned to a number of menial occupations and finally returned to the services of Miss Keyes."
- "Tragedy now strikes hard. The world's imagination is caught by the brutal senseless[ness] of the apparent criminal who slays his kind old mistress."
- "John was hardly more than a bewildered observer at his own trial, not being allowed to say more than a few words. The tides of fate wash him to the condemned cell where he waits three sad weeks for his last night on earth."
- "When it comes, he cannot sleep, but when he does, a strange, prophetic dream comes to him, and helps him to bear the strain of his next day's ordeal as scaffold and its crew try in vain three times to take his life."

How we should manage this? Is possible to give such a long name to a recording? Should we keep the titles as the editor in the vinyl release thought?

Thanks in advance!