Adding "en directo" for Spanish live recordings in the title.

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Hello!

In the style guidelines it is specified that live recordings should not contain "(live)” in the title, but in the appropriate fields/disambiguation.
However, does this also apply to songs in other languages?

Specifically in Spanish (en directo), the style guide mentions this particular case:

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Language/Spanish#:~:text=empezaremos%20por%20minúscula%3A-,Al%20otro%20lado%20del%20río%20(en%20directo)

Which is contradictory unless each language follows different rules for live recordings.

Thanks!

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Could you find and link this? :wink:

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Yeah it is right here

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Recording#Live_recordings

Maybe this is for recordings and the Spanish one was an example for a track?

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Yes. The live thing applies to all languages, but it’s for recordings. If an album has a bunch of tracks and then a bonus track “X (en directo)” then that still should be kept on the track title :slight_smile: (if it’s a live album and all tracks say “(en directo)” then I’d personally drop it as useless).

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Alright, that makes sense :slightly_smiling_face:. I have seen quite a few English tracks without the (live) information, so I thought it applied to both tracks and recordings, but it may just be because that specific disc is live (deluxe editions, …), so it is a bit redundant.

Thank you!

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