# Official title vs. display compatible title
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/official-title-vs-display-compatible-title/723203
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** title, style
**Created:** [November 7, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/official-title-vs-display-compatible-title/723203 "2024-11-07T12:45:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@7sDream](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/7sDream)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/official-title-vs-display-compatible-title/723203/1 "2024-11-07T12:45:29Z")
Hello,
I just found the title of five elements series of band [Ave Mujica](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3d3b99e4-1a07-49d5-9c47-cd2a4c156d6c) is little hard to decide.
The five release group are:
- [Symbol I : △](https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8fe96fd5-844c-4812-86b0-105b3eaa8cf4)
- [Symbol II : Air](https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/7b66dc0e-8641-4574-85c7-3f5e19d98c4b)
- [Symbol III : ▽](https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8308ef12-f45c-4f3b-8589-186655d84dad)
- [Symbol IV : Earth](https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/7502d101-f0c4-4cc7-9f09-eca82305f20a)
- [Ether](https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/f1b3d3ee-ebe8-49b5-bbfe-d4871278786d)
It’s very clean that this series is based on the [classical element theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element). And two of them use the symbol of element in title, another two uses plain text.
But if you see the [official page](https://bang-dream.com/discographies/3783) of those plain text release, it has a note at the end:
> ※正式タイトルは「Symbol II : 🜁」となりますが、互換性を考慮し「Symbol II : Air」と表記しております。
Which translated to:
> ※The official title will be “Symbol II : 🜁”, but considering compatibility, it is represented as “Symbol II : Air”.
Because obviously modern databases can process these symbols that have been encoded in Unicode, So I’m wordering if we should uses the official name? As bellow:
- Symbol I : △
- Symbol II : 🜁
- Symbol III : ▽
- Symbol IV : 🜃
- Ether
And how about track titles in the [final EP](https://musicbrainz.org/release/6e4f1b5f-be24-45c0-8081-06b81d494384)?
I personally prefer to use symbols, as it seems to be the original intention of the artists and publishers, while using plain text is merely a compromise in display. Moreover, considering that two of them would inevitably require the use of symbols, modifying them would also make the entire series more consistent.
For the aforementioned reasons, I have submitted some modifications, but so far it has not received any discussion or votes (with two days remaining). To avoid potential disputes, I chose to post here to see if anyone has different ideas on this.
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### Author:  [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/official-title-vs-display-compatible-title/723203/2 "2024-11-07T13:13:45Z")
The covers seem to have the element symbol, so I’d expect us to use that.
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### Author:  [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/official-title-vs-display-compatible-title/723203/3 "2024-11-07T17:47:05Z")
And the other can be a pseudo-release. 🙂
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### Author:  [@7sDream](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/7sDream)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/official-title-vs-display-compatible-title/723203/4 "2024-11-07T18:22:58Z")
> [@jesus2099](#):
>
> And the other can be a pseudo-release.
Seems a good idea.
After these edit applied, I will add pseudo-release for them.