Back cover subject for discussion.
This is sort of related to multi-part songs and movements, but it seems worthy of its own discussion on song grouping. Track list for the above release is clearly divided up into 4 “chapters.” The recording entries make reference to only the main titles. What’s the preferred method here? Append each chapter heading to the front of the title like so?
Borealis: Toronto (Abridged)
I can extrapolate this concept being used fairly frequently by bands (seasons, chakras, 7 deadly sins, etc.), so I’m guessing there must be some existing methodology, I’m just unable to find it in the guidelines.
I just dealt with a release that is similarly arranged. That’s how it was done there, prepending the grouping on the track titles. That’s actually what the guideline for classical music calls for, but I haven’t seen a similar guideline for non-classical.
I don’t see any harm in prepending the group name, but yeah, it’s probably worth a conversation.
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Yep - Borealis: Face of the Earth is fine. Very common to find it. Somewhere in the ticket system is a plan to make sections within tracklists as this is a common need.
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Hi, sorry to bring this back from the dead but I’m adding THIS release and according to the tracklist:
tracks 5 to 9 are part of a “concept” within the album.
Should I add “Voyagers of time:” before the title of the tracks/recordings/work?
Thanks!
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Personally I wouldn’t, but what I would do is add the information to the annotation for the release.
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Personally I would.
There’s no other way to keep this information (… except, writing it in an annotation 
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As @Beckfield mentioned, work title plays a role here. Even if the music is not classical, by following a convention of classical (supposedly for stylistic purposes), I would argue the same logic applies. Look to releases such as Yes’ “Close to the Edge” and Muse’s “The Resistance”. This is also a convention used in soundtracks to denote episodes from which the music came, such as in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Collection.
For reference the previously mentioned tickets: MBS-6680, MBS-11236 and a tag to keep track of releases with chapters.
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I’ve taken to recording this with work relationships: for tracks which form part of a larger work, this work will be displayed in the credits on the release page when the relationships are set properly. (On the other hand, if one track consists of a work with several subparts, these parts won’t be displayed in the release credits.) At least to my taste, doing it this way can make the tracklist easier to read than repeating these titles in a whole bunch of tracks (especially if it’s a very complex release with a lot of groupings and sections of tracks), and the information is not lost, even from the release page itself.
I talked (to myself!) about this in some edit notes a while back: Edit #103151676, Edit #103113196 – the first is even a replacement edit for the second, because I changed my mind. (I must have searched for this thread without finding it.)
I definitely agree that ‘chapter’ headings would be even better.
