Inconsistent behavior of "Guess case" button

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Hi,

I noticed a difference in the way “Guess case” button works for two releases:

In the release https://musicbrainz.org/release/36f98d23-c3d2-46af-8296-ef833d9039a7 going to Edit → Tracklist tab and clicking “Guess case” (set to English) capitalizes the words “from” and “with” in titles of tracks 1 and 11. This is expected: it follows English language capitalization guidelines.

On the other hand, “Guess case” button does not capitalize the word “with” in the title of track 3 here: Release “Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas” by Therion - MusicBrainz.

If I’m doing something wrong, I can’t see what. Is this a bug? Or does “guess case” use a rule I’m not aware of? Or maybe it’s just working that way for me? Can anyone else reproduce this behavior?

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It’s because the text in parentheses is detected as Extra Title Information, and there apply different rules. See the comment at Style / Language / English - MusicBrainz

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Thank you, that makes sense. So it’s just an edge case in the way “guess case” is implemented?

Am I correct to think the word “with” should be capitalized in the title of the Therion track? After all, it’s not ETI.

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I think that’s right, but I’m not an expert on capitalization rules. Others here can give a more definitive answer.

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Yes, “with” is always capitalized, unless it’s ETI. Guess case assumes it’s ETI like “with such & such artist”, which I always found weird because we aren’t supposed to have artist in the ETI. So, it should be fixed to always capitalize with.

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All right, I fixed these titles. I left a link to this thread in edit notes.

Thanks for your help.

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