Cyrillic/Latin script for digital media

[emmadilemma]

I didn’t want to narco-bump the below so creating a new thread.

Names of track artists for digital releases

When creating a release from a CD, the convention is to enter names of performers as they are printed on the CD cover. For example, for a US release of Tchaikovsky, the name of the composer shall be entered in Latin script, whereas for a Russian release the name shall be entered in Cyrillic script, that is as printed on the CD cover. The rule totally makes sense since a CD release represents a particular physical media where a particular script is used. But it is more complicated with digital r…

I was battling Picard to get this digital download to tag:

Swan Lake

All artist names are in Cyrillic script, but the release is marked as US, and the files I purchased were in Latin script (poorly tagged, but no Cyrillic), as was the cover art (which is correct as pictured).

There is a sibling release in this group that uses Latin script, and that makes sense as it’s a physical UK release that wouldn’t have had Cyrillic in the liner notes.

I don’t want to allow Picard to overrun the names in Latin script, so for now I manually pasted the artist and album artist from the UK release (my songs remain subtly mistagged, like not having the accent aigu on scène.

Do we know that there was a (US) digital release that carried Cyrillic tags, or barring that, is there some style rule I am missing?

[nadl40]

In case like this I woud’ve use ‘credited as’ for artists, it keeps the artists in original script but it dispays on the page in latin as per release.

For tagging I have a lot of artists in Cyrylic and use English aliases when tagging. I often add missing aliases.